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...
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
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...
Legislative 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...
Op-eds
Iran’s Time Bomb
When US Vice-President Joe Biden finally got to comment on Iran in his recent speech at the policy conference of the American Israel ...
Op-eds
The Iran-North Korea Axis of Proliferation
Both Iran and North Korea are subject to a growing stack of sanctions with which the United Nations, since 2006, has been...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Middle East Webs and Nuclear Wares
North Korea’s third and latest nuclear test is certainly a threat to Asian security, but the dangers go way beyond Asia. For decades, North Korea has been one of the world’s most ente...
Op-eds
Saving Syria from Kofi Annan
Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...
Op-eds
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...
Op-eds
A Still-Open Nuclear File
Syria's violations would be grave enough if al-Kibar reflected a Syrian attempt to build nuclear weapons for itself.
Op-eds
Turning on Syria
On Tuesday night, the Obama administration began signaling that it will call for Bashar al-Assad’s departure in Syria. CNN and other outlets reported that the White House would soon increas...
Op-eds
Condi Rice Wants Us to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Kim Jong Il
It needs the talents of Stanley Kubrick to do justice to the complete Cuckoo’s Nest that American policy on North Korea has become. The State Department wants a nuclear deal, Presi...
Op-eds
U.S. Should Help North Koreans Flee
"We look forward to the moment when we can celebrate the blessings of liberty with the North Korean people," President Bush said in a statement released last week. So we should, faced wi...
Op-eds
North Korea and the Audacity of Nuclear Extortion
If they gave prizes for the art of nuclear blackmail, North Korea's Kim Jong Il would right now be hoisting his trophy for lifetime achievement. Call it the Plutonium-Uranium-Switcheroo Shak...
Op-eds
A World Sliding Into Danger
Time was when the sun never set on the British Empire. These days, it seems the sun never sets on a crisis. This week alone you can take your pick among the mysteries of the spreading swine flu,...
Op-eds
The Attack on Syria’s al-Kibar Nuclear Facility
Israel's September 6, 2007, attack on Syria's al-Kibar nuclear facility surprised the world—Syria most of all. The operation, executed by the Israeli Air Force (IAF), was reminisc...