I am back from London –where I participated in a Track 2 conversation with real live North Korean officials, with Kim Il Sung pins and everything. It was very interesting!
The Big Shift
by | 2012-03-26 | 10 Comments
Since the Cold War ended, no region has experienced more shocks or a more significant reorientation in US foreign policy than South Asia. The big shift was enabled by the demise of the Soviet Union and New Delhi’s turn away from Nehruvian economics to market-oriented entrepreneurship. Then came the 1998 nuclear tests, the Kargil War, …
Rockets and the Leap Day Deal
by | 2012-03-23 | 29 Comments
I am beginning to understand how the US-DPRK “Leap Day Deal” came apart . You have to hand it to the North Koreans. They screwed the Obama Administration. But the Obama Administration didn’t do itself any favors, either.
A Nuclear Coup
by | 2012-03-21 | 9 Comments
If you liked reading Frederick Forsyth’s Day of the Jackal, wait until you see the new monograph by Bruno Tertrais, A “Nuclear Coup”? France, the Algerian War and the April 1961 Nuclear Test.
