The Hwasong that Never Ends
by | August 28, 2017 | No Comments
A guest post from my colleague Matt Korda Here we go again: another guide to North Korean missile designations. You might be asking yourself, “Self, why do I need to learn all these pesky Hwasongs if I already know all the KN numbers? Surely they’re just different names for the same things?” Well, to quote the …
Bombs and Dollars
by | August 27, 2017 | 18 Comments
Two professors who study nuclear proliferation — Nick Miller at Dartmouth and Vipin Narang at MIT — have a neat little piece in Politico Magazine about which poli-sci theories predicted North Korea’s bomb and which didn’t. Long story short: most didn’t. Etel Solingen’s Nuclear Logics (2007) holds up well. It was, of course, published four years after North Korea’s …
Parallel Crises
by | August 25, 2017 | 3 Comments
Quote of the week: “Of course I got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons. I’ve got ‘em because everybody else does. But as soon as you use them, they screw everything up.” —Danny DeVito Crises are usually singular events, but on rare occasions they come in pairs. A third pairing might be in the offing. …
Glocom Is at It Again
by | August 22, 2017 | 1 Comment
Readers may recall my earlier rantings about a company called ‘Glocom’, a North Korean military communications firm masquerading as Malaysian, and selling missile navigation systems and other arms-related products around the world. The company was outed by the UN Panel of Experts and a Reuters special investigation in February, around the time of Kim Jong …
The Trump Effect
by Michael Krepon | August 14, 2017
Modern Man is Obsolete
by Michael Krepon | August 3, 2017
The More You KN-0w About North Korean Missiles
by Scott LaFoy | July 31, 2017
Is Space the Final War-Fighting Frontier?
by Michael Krepon | July 26, 2017
Deterrence Stability is a Hoax. The Delicate Balance of Terror is, Too.
by Michael Krepon | July 19, 2017
Trump Puts Sudan (And the World) "On Notice" over DPRK
by Andrea Berger | July 12, 2017
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