North Koreans In New York (I think). Joseph DeTrani (Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks and U.S. Representative to KEDO) and Jim Foster (Director, EAP/K) met with for a second time with their North Korean counterparts though the New York channel.…
Lee Yeong-jong of the conservative Joongang Ilbo reports that the head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does not believe activity near Kilju is preparation for a nuclear test: During a closed-door talk on Friday, NIS head Ko Young-kooc said,…
Scott Stossel in The Atlantic Monthly quotes Bob Gallucci on people who oppose negotiations with North Korea: Gallucci, for his part, said he was “surprised at how surprised [Ken] Adelman was that we—those of us who favor negotiation—could end up…
Peter Baker of the Washington Post fetes Deputy National Security Advisor Jack Dyer (J.D.) Crouch II for not being Doug Feith: “We sort of decided that J.D. was the one we would take a harder view of,” said one Senate…
Daniel Sneider of the San Jose Mercury-News observes similarities between recent allegations of nuclear test preparations near Kilju and the 1998 revelation that North Korea was constructing an underground nuclear reactor and reprocessing facility near Kumchang-ri—a claim that turned out…
The IC split over China’s Lop Nor test site, too. David Sanger details the debate over signs of possible North Korea nuclear test preparations. The key graf casts doubt on his earlier report North Korea had erected a “grandstand”: Last…
The Defense Intelligence Agency concludes “an early-generation warhead weighing 650-750 kg is the best Pyongyang could achieve.”
A North Korean official told a delegation of Japanese academics that North Korea will test a nuclear weapon. The Washington Post reports: Yasuhiko Yoshida, a former U.N. proliferation expert and North Korea specialist at Osaka University of Economics and Law,…
The Chosun Ilbo reports the US has briefed South Korea that movements of heavy equipment signal an impending nuclear test.
Underground facility at Hagap, once thought an HE testing site. Was Lowell Jacoby correct about North Korea being able to mate a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a Taepo Dong 2? Probably not without Pyongyang testing both. The current CIA estimate…
