North Korea Shows How the Iranian Nuclear Deal Will Fail
Nuclear negotiations with North Korea have shown us that limited nuclear deals allow the proliferator the time and space to develop nuclear weapons.
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
Washington is ready to fall into Kim Jong Un’s trap, again
How many times will the United States pay North Korea to shut down the same nuclear reactor? The answer so far is three, although the Biden White House seems increasingly ready to make it four. North Korea...
Op-eds
At the Latest Inter-Korean Summit, Kim Jong-Un Created a Diplomatic Minefield for the United States
According to recent reports, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo strongly protested the outcome of September’s inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang. One source told the South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo that...
Op-eds
North Korea’s 5th Nuclear Test – What now?
North Korea just heralded the 68th anniversary of its founding by conducting its fifth nuclear test...
Policy Briefs
It’s the Proliferation, Stupid
As the world prepares for a possible fifth nuclear weapons...
Op-eds
Underestimating Nuclear Missile Threats from North Korea and Iran
Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry F. Cooper, Fritz Ermarth and Peter Vincent Pry North Korea launched its second satellite on Saturday, yet the national press continues to...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Nuclear Advance — With Or Without The Hydrogen Bomb
It’s almost two years since North Korea’s government threatened to carry out “a new form of nuclear test.” Asked at a United Nations press conference what Pyongyang had in...
Op-eds
Nuclear Fiascoes: From Diplomatic Failure With North Korea To Debacle With Iran
With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will...
Op-eds
Nuclear Bargains And State Department Backlogs
Should a final deal emerge from the Iran nuclear talks, now nearing a June 30 deadline, Congress will expect reports from the President every six months on whether Iran is in compliance. These re...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks
In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu...
Op-eds
How Iran and North Korea Became Cyber-Terror Buddies
In late November 2014, cyber-warfare burst into the American public consciousness when Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyber-attack. Hackers leaked Sony’s corporate...
Op-eds
Historic Day for Washington, Havana…and Pyongyang’s Hackers
On a day when hackers working for North Korea managed to shut down the release of an American movie, on American soil, by threatening terrorist attacks on American theaters, one might have suppos...
Op-eds
North Korea and Iran: Partners in Cyber Warfare?
North Korea has denied any involvement in the massive hacking attack last month on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and absent evidence c...
Op-eds
Iran Could Outsource Its Nuclear-Weapons Program To North Korea
As the Iran nuclear talks grind toward a soft July 20 deadline in Vienna, U.S. negotiators and their partners seem oblivious to a loophole that could render any agreement meaningless. Tehran coul...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Nuclear Fallout
For a rogue state under international sanctions, what is the penalty for threatening to carry out an illicit nuclear test? As North Korea is demonstrating, and Iran is no doubt closely observing,...
Op-eds
Iran Follows in North Korea’s Nuclear Shoes
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...
Op-eds
Iran’s Sequel to North Korea’s Nuclear Playbook
As world powers prepare for nuclear talks with Iran next week in Geneva, U.S. negotiators and their cohorts would do well to review the history of nuclear deals with another rogue state: the Demo...
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Congressional Testimonies
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Op-eds
The Pyongyang-Tehran Proliferation Playbook
Clearly the dangers posed by North Korea reside not only in its arsenal, but in the precedents Pyongyang keeps setting for just how much a rogue regime can get away with in this era of receding A...