A Canadian reviews the last month’s news with two special guests. Andrea talks to CNS Senior Research Associate Melissa Hanham and FAS Adjunct Fellow Ankit Panda as they go through the trajectory of U.S./DPRK diplomacy after the Singapore Summit, parse through the differences between U.S and DPRK public statements, and developments within the U.S./ROK Alliance.
Chauncey Gardner, Redux
by | 2018-07-02 | No Comments
Quote of the week: “The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea can approach it.” — Blaise Pascale Note to readers: Every two years or so, Guest Contributor Chauncey Gardner weighs in from his woodland retreat. I interviewed him while standing unsteadily in the eddies of …
North Korea Expanding Key Missile Site
by | 2018-07-02 | 4 Comments
This post is authored by Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler Despite the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, in which North and South Korea “confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” satellite images captured by Planet show that North Korea is completing a major expansion of an important factory for producing solid …
Drums in the Deep: Estimating Test Yields Based on Seismic Signal
by | 2018-06-25 | 1 Comment
This post is authored by Nate Taylor. Recently, equally great statesmen Kim Jong Un and Donald “Jong” Trump met in Singapore for a brief discussion on how they plan to split their Nobel prize winnings, their favorite burgers, and (assuming they got to it) the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of the Korean Peninsula. …
