So, Joe DeTrani and Chris Hill admit that the intel on North Korea’s enrichment program is sketchy and all hell breaks loose … (Read the full text of their testimonies). Giacomo, Sanger and Broad, Kessler, and Landay all have stories.…
Noah Shachtman has a sweet new blog over at Wired called, Danger Room. Haninah Levine, science fellow at the Center for Defense Information, weighs in on Iran’s so-called “space launch.” With a little help from the Union of Concerned Scientists’…
Ah, the simple joys of cross-cultural communication. I was one of many observers struck by Condoleeza Rice’s awkward use of the term “disablement” to refer to an early phase in a process to “denuclearize” North Korea. Now, China Matters rails…
Did then-Secretary of State Colin Powell sit on Iran’s 2003 offer as part of a bureaucratic tangle over Korea policy? Steve Clemons raises that disturbing question in his post on the Six Party Deal that Chris Hill has brilliantly brought…
Chris Hill clearly has other things on his mind these days: NPR: There is one nuclear reactor in North Korea that experts say could produce a nuclear weapon. Is that at the heart these discussions? HILL. Well, to be sure,…
Last night, at a bar in DC … Arms Control Wonk: Hey … is Ken Brill going to replace Space-Based Bob (Robert Joseph) as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security? Striped Pants Cookie Pusher (SPCP) with Mojito (w/M): I…
Paul Stares argues that multilateral security assurances might induce Pyongyang to agree to the dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear program: The diplomatic vehicle for such security assurances would be a United Nations-sponsored initiative to formally end the Korean War and…
Is anything cooler than super-villains teaming up, like when Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner settled into an uneasy alliance? No, obviously not. So, neither is it surprising that super-hack Con Coughlin alleges North Korea is helping Iran prepare for a nuclear…
Paul Kerr reminds me why Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill remains my favorite US diplomat: Q: Can’t you at least get a Yongbyon freeze? That would seem to be a… HILL: Oh, you…
ABC’s Jonathan Karl is quoting a “senior defense officials” claiming that North Korea has made preparations for a second nuclear test. North Korea appears to have made preparations for another nuclear test, according to U.S. defense officials. “We think they’ve…
