Well, this is an interesting little development. As you know, ArmsControlWonk was a little uncertain about estimates that North Korea has produced “at least eight” nuclear weapons. There are two reasons for uncertainty. 1. That’s a lot of bombs, given…
U.S. Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) has apparently confirmed that the United States is attempting to establish a backchannel with North Korea through Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi [I am going with the State Dept. spelling]. In July, US National Security Advisor…
Rose Gottemoellar has a spot-on letter to the FT about Bush’s leadership, or lack thereof, on North Korea and Iran issues: Bush showed lack of leadership over N Korea and Iran policy Financial Times, October 7 2004 03:00 From Ms…
The wierdest moment of the Presidential debate was the candidates getting wonky over the merits of bilateral vs. multilateral negotiations. I was going to do my best to explain the difference, but Peter Scoblic beat me to it with an…
Paul Kerr, at the Arms Control Association, notes that David Sanger’s NYT article today on the debate “is pretty good, but he really got this part wrong: Mr. Kerry argued repeatedly that North Korea posed a far greater threat than…
I’ve often jokes that the axis of evil wasn’t a phrase, it was a menu. Now that we are past the soup course, Bush doesn’t seem to know which fork to use. Peter Scoblic is the former editor at Arms…
I was struggling for something interesting to say about North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon’s claim that S2R* had “already reprocessed 8,000 wasted fuel rods and transformed them into arms.” [*Secretive Stalinist Regime. Apparently respectable news outlets think this…
There was an enormous explosion in North Korea. “There was no indication that was a nuclear event of any kind. Exactly what it was, we’re not sure,” our Secretary of State Colin Powell told ABC’s This Week. Powell added that…
After the Washington Post reported the intelligence community will raise its estimate of the number of North Korean nuclear weapons from “possibly two” to “at least eight”, Colin Powell tells reporters in Berlin that he is “not aware of a…
