U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill, center, sits with his delegate members attending the 2nd working group meeting on North Korea’s nuclear program at the Liaoning Friendship Convention Center in Shenyang, northeastern China, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007. Envoys to talks on…
IAEA inspectors have confirmed that the NORKs have shut down 15-20 MWt reactor at Yongbyon. That’s a welcome bit of news, as they go about verifying the freeze that North Korea will place on five of its nuclear facilities (the…
One more thing before Marc and Matt take over for the week … As many of you know, the US-DPRK agreement to shutter the Yongbyon reactor is being held hostage by a very arcane dispute over the return of $25…
Yeah, so I’ve been wondering (more) about the reports that North Korea was developing a new IRBM based on the Soviet SS-N-6. Now Asahi Shimbun reports (full text in comments) that “North Korea unveiled the new missile loaded on a…
Paul continues his quixotic battle to introduce Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard to methodological rigor. Shorter Paul: Absence of evidence is absence of evidence.
Chris Nelson in the national treasure that is The Nelson Report has the crucial backstory on how Administration hardliners may be fighting efforts to lift Treasury sanctions on North Korea’s “licit” funds as part of an effort to scuttle the…
Yeah, that’s a Taepodong model. Geoff Forden and I have been making different sorts of models of the TD-1 and TD-2, but that is another story. (Hat tip to reader RH.) Update The Robot Economist is a sick, funny bastard.
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asks SECSTATE and SECDEF about that incredible, shrinking North Korean HEU program including questions about the basis for assessing that a large-scale centrifuge facility was under construction and whether…
Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department…
I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office…
