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Well it took two months—I complained in August—but the New York Times finally released the lat/long for the P’unggye-yok test site. Google views of the tunneling area, near 41.279 degrees north latitude and 129.087 east longitude, show a set of…
Two Words: ROAD TRIP The head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (Esfandiar Rahim-Masha’i) has said: Foreign tourists can visit Iran’s nuclear centers. In order to learn more about this report, we’ve telephoned the deputy head of the…
In addition to focusing on the nuclear, the US has been pressuring financial institutions to crack down on NK for drug trafficking and counterfeiting. In yesterday’s Financial Times, Anna Fifield and Guy Dinmore write: North Korea’s leadership is under severe…
Pick a test site. Any test site. From the Korea Herald The Seoul government is now working closely with U.S. intelligence agencies on identifying the North’s possible test site. [snip] However, all acquired intelligence has been dependent on statements by…
My friend and former co-worker Chris McIntosh has earned a slot at TNR’s post-season baseball-blog Deep in the Count. The blog has some very good writing, although it’s premised on the inane assumption that baseball is not boring. Here’s his…
And also, naturally, terrorist use of shipping containers to transport dirty bombs into the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Control needs your help. From the Container Security Initiative website: If you have information concerning possible terrorist use of shipping containers…
In an effort to compare the US-India nuclear deal to other historically-bad ideas, I give you an account of a 1975 article from Fortune magazine that I found in Steve Weissman and Herbert Krosney’s 1981 book The Islamic Bomb. According…
NRDC’s Tom Cochran has released a pretty compelling rebuttal of David Albright’s estimate of the capacity of Pakistan’s new plutonium production reactor. Albright, writing with Paul Brannan, estimated the capacity of the new reactor in excess of 1000 MW; NSC…
Dave Kang—Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth and Managing the Atom Research Associate—sends along his thoughts on North Korea’s announcement of an impending North Korean nuclear test: Will North Korea actually test? What do they hope to get…
By now, you’ve probably heard that the DPRK has announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test. (The BBC has a translation of the Korean statement; the original is here.) The money line is: The DPRK Foreign Ministry is authorized…
