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
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September
Policy Tracker
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
North Korea
Maximum Pressure 2.0
A Plan for North Korea
Monographs
Amended North Korean Constitution Reaffirms Kim Jong Un’s Steadfast Faith in His Nuclear Arsenal
North Korea released an amended version of its constitution last Thursday, in which the preface continues to identify the country as a nuc...
Policy Briefs
North Korea Short-Range Missile Test Reveal Kim’s True Intent
North Korea on Saturday tested a new short-range missile system and a multiple-rocket launch system, marking the r...
Policy Briefs
Trump Walks Away from Kim in Hanoi
The second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi...
Policy Briefs
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...