Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.) Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna…
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Okay folks, we are back. If I could trouble you, oh friends of wonk, please pass the word around. Send e-mails, bring it up over white russians, what-have-you. Friend of Wonk Allen Thomson wins a prize for big catch—the Missile…
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Friend of Wonk Jacqueline Shire sends this dispatch from the UN Security Council as the members-states consider what to do about North Korea: Eloise at the Security Council I’ve often wished that Kay Thompson were alive so that she and…
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CNN is quoting “a senior State Department official” as saying North Korea conducted “an apparently unsuccessful test” of the Taepodong 2 “that failed in flight.” Can’t wait for the details. (I guess this means the Dear Leader isn’t watching the…
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Friends, I will be in London and Paris for the next two weeks, beginning with a display of the fine art of hotel expressionism showing at the Swissotel in London. If any of you, dear readers, are available for a…
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Mikio Ikuma, Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun, calling for a strike on North Korea: Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy! Tokyo, Japan—North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups.…
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The Flat Earth Society has a foothold in the Wall Street Journal editorial page: It’s possible we’ll wake up to the news that Pyongyang has tested the long-range ballistic missile that is fully fueled and which U.S. satellites have monitored…
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I’ve been a little reluctant to write about the preparations for the Taepodong 2 launch. The press—especially the Japanese press—is filled with a huge amount of disinformation that really complicates things. Japanese news sources reported that North Korean television told…
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Friends know that I love shopping for used books. A few of my friends share my obsession, notably physicist Götz Neuneck (and, yes, that is a heavy metal umlaut). By far, my greatest used book pick up was a 1962…
