A couple weeks back North Korea unveiled its Hwasong-12 missile. The big hulking vehicle used for the test launch was not a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), but rather just a Transporter-Erector (TE)!
Disarmament Diplomacy and the Ban Treaty
by | 2017-05-29 | 2 Comments
Quote of the week: “Our world will be a safer and healthier place when we can admit that every time we make an atomic bomb we corrupt the morals of a host of innocent neutrons below the age of consent.” —W.H. Auden The drafting of a Ban (or Prohibition) Treaty, which resumes in June, is …
Brixey-Williams on the legal implications of the nuclear ban
by | 2017-05-26 | 6 Comments
This is a guest post by BASIC Project Leader Sebastian Brixey-Williams. The legal implications of the nuclear ban: separating fact from fiction The nuclear ban treaty’s draft text is out, and the arms control community is beavering away trying to understand what it all means. I observed the first round of UN negotiations in March, …
On guard: North Korean private security and the UN
by | 2017-05-23 | 1 Comment
Malaysian-North Korean relations have been imploding since the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur Airport, and the subsequent revelations that North Korea has been doing a whole lot of other shady things on Malaysian soil. If you haven’t already, read my colleague Dan Salisbury’s post about possible North Korean-Malaysian submarine building. Some of …
