Just Saying
I think it’s reasonable to believe that countrires’ adherence to a treaty at least suggests that they agree with its basic tenets. By that measure, here is the number of countries, apart from India, who believe that New Delhi should…
June 2006
26 posts
The Fine Art of Hotel Expressionism
Friends, I will be in London and Paris for the next two weeks, beginning with a display of the fine art of hotel expressionism showing at the Swissotel in London. If any of you, dear readers, are available for a…
HIRC Markup, US-India Nuclear Deal
Possible demise of the NPT being broadcast now… Just remember that the NPT doesn’t include the phrase “unless the US says so.” Update I forgot to mention that comments containing the phrases “nuclear apartheid” or ”[reference to arms controllers] ayatollahs”…
Chastise That Naughty Boy!
Mikio Ikuma, Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun, calling for a strike on North Korea: Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy! Tokyo, Japan—North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups.…
Finally, some good news for MDA?
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), much-beleaguered about the status of the missile defense system designed to protect the United States against missile attacks, can finally report good news. Sort of. It held a test of the upgraded version of…
Greetings from Middlebury
I am giving a talk on blogging as I blog. Weird.
Snakes on the Six Party Talks
While the usual suspects fantasize in their collective right-wing whack-shack about a North Korean ballistic missile test, a working GMD, etc., it would be useful to take a look at what North Korea’s MFA said 1 June. The fact that…
Stand Down, Boys
The Flat Earth Society has a foothold in the Wall Street Journal editorial page: It’s possible we’ll wake up to the news that Pyongyang has tested the long-range ballistic missile that is fully fueled and which U.S. satellites have monitored…
Missile defense may be on, but there’s nobody home
Victoria Samson here, commandeering ACW for a bit (per Dr. Wonk’s approval, of course) to talk a bit about the activation of the U.S. missile defense system. According to the WashTimes’ Bill Gertz, the U.S. military is getting all systems…
Taepodong Test Prep
I’ve been a little reluctant to write about the preparations for the Taepodong 2 launch. The press—especially the Japanese press—is filled with a huge amount of disinformation that really complicates things. Japanese news sources reported that North Korean television told…