The International Crisis Group, to my mind, is a very uneven operation. It also annoys me that they never sign their reports.
But Dan Pinkston, out in Seoul, has a trio of very good reports on North Korea’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programs, Nuclear and Missile Programs and Getting Back to Talks.
Top notch stuff from a top notch analyst.
I am less optimistic, at least in the near term, than Dan seems to be about getting back to talks with North Korea — though I agree that we need to be ready to engage them, as Dan says, “if and when there appears to be a prospect, however uncertain, that the North is willing to engage seriously.”