North Korea's Next Steps
I was struggling with what to say about the increasingly dire situation in North Korea, when I discovered that Sig Hecker did it for me in the Bulletin: In summary, North Korea is capable of carrying out its threat to…
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North Korea and Game Theory
I had an op ed on Sunday in the Washington Times about what to do about North Korea: Although deeply injurious to U.S. interests, nothing that Kim Jong-il has done is irrational, crazy or, that old orientalist favorite, inscrutable. The…
The Il-Matic Returns
He’s baaaaaaaack! A thinner, grayer Kim Jong Il appeared at the first session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. The Norks released the video. I love the desultory little clap he gives about 45 seconds…
Another Taepodong Failure
This plot from Google Earth shows the announced splashdown zones and the locations of the splashdowns from a story in the Yomiuri. Credit: David Wright. Based on where the second stage fell, it is clear that the North Korean satellite…
Fun With FCNL
I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague…
NORK Fuel Rod
There has been a lot of technical discussion about the North Korean fuel rods, from their size to how they are stored. Now, the South Korean government has a released pictures of a rod and the rods in storage. Awesome!…
NORK HEU 3 1/2 Years Old?
Greetings from Milan. For reasons that I will decline to speculate on, Steve Hadley decided to take an internal debate within the intelligence community and make it very public: This is especially true because some in the intelligence community have…
NORKs Delisted
The Bush Administration has removed North Korea from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terror, following precisely the provisional delisting scenario I outlined on the blog a couple of weeks ago. I must say, I am rather proud…
Provisionally Delisting North Korea Redux
Glenn Kessler has a pair of great stories on the breakdown of the October 3 Six Party Agreement. On Friday, Kessler detailed how the State Department managed to impose humiliating verification demands that North Korea was sure to reject (“Far-Reaching…
Provisionally Delisting North Korea
You may have noticed that IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei announced that North Korea has asked the IAEA to remove the seals and surveillance equipment on the reprocessing facility: This morning, the DPRK authorities asked the Agency´s inspectors to remove seals…