Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center

June 23, 2014 | |

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...

April 17, 2014 | |

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,...

November 19, 2013 | |

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...

October 7, 2013 | |

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...

April 11, 2013 |

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...

April 11, 2013 | R. James Woolsey Joint Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs |

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...

April 10, 2013 | Claudia Rosett Forbes |

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...

April 1, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint |

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&nbsp...

March 11, 2013 | |

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...

February 13, 2013 | |

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...

June 28, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

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:...

March 5, 2012 | James Kirchick Commentary |

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...

August 26, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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.

August 11, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

June 15, 2011 | Pajamas Media |

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...

June 14, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer |

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...

November 22, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

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...

May 14, 2009 | |

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,...

March 10, 2009 | |

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...

February 19, 2009 | |

Try Real ‘Change’ Toward North Korea

We shouldn't ''engage'' with a government that kills, suppresses and starves its citizens.