There are two stories in the press, one stating that Bob Einhorn will become the new coordinator for implementing UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea and another that he will become the top official to enforce sanctions on Iran. It isn’t clear to me whether these are two independent moves, or whether the Obama …
Saudi Missile Claims
by | 2010-06-08 | 12 Comments
A former intelligence contractor is claiming that China finally got around to selling Saudi Arabia some new missiles to replace the ones it bought two decades ago. Jonathan Scherck decided he couldn’t wait for classification review and has been emailing a self-published manuscript to members of Congress and Jeff Stein, who runs the Washington Post’s …
Mea Culpa
by | 2010-06-07 | 7 Comments
Deepti Choubey has taken issue with my characterization of the 2010 NPT Rev Con as a “lowest common denominator success.” Upon reflection, and after comparing the 2010 final document with the 1995 and 2000 final documents, I think she’s right: I should have been more positive about the text, and the hard work of those …
Schmucker and Schiller on Nork Missiles
by | 2010-06-07 | 21 Comments
Bharath Gopalaswamy and Martin Senn at the great blog “C x I” have posted a paper by Robert Schmucker and Markus Schiller titled The DPRK Missile Show – A Comedy in (Currently) Eight Acts. They elegantly lay out the case that North Korea’s ballistic missile program remains dependent on foreign, likely Russian, assistance: There is …
