Korean Workers’ Party Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol is in New York today to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in what seems to be a pivotal moment for determining whether a June 12 date for a U.S.-North Korean summit…
Quote of the week: “People understood that when lives are given on their behalf they have received something precious. Ceremonies are a way to give something precious in return.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) Editor’s note: Dan Caldwell…
Quote of the week: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein Thanks to the reporting of Steve Liewer of the Omaha World-Herald, we have learned about the latest effort by…
Ears pricked up across the nonproliferation world last week when North Korea’s representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva stated that Pyongyang “will join international disarmament efforts for a total ban on nuclear tests.” Does this development mean that…
Matt Korda, fellow Canuck and master of North Korean missile puns, submitted this piece on publicly available missile patents. It’s wonderfully in the weeds, but then again we are called Arms Control “Wonk” for a reason, right? ______________ When I’m…
What is going on with the Trump-Kim summit following the recent cancellation of a DPRK-ROK meeting? Will Trump and Kim meet? And how does John Bolton fit into all of this? Today, Aaron and Jeffrey discuss the latest twists and…
My colleagues Andrea Berger, Cameron Trainer, Shea Cotton, and I have published a CNS occasional paper on North Korea’s IT networks. Part of this research involved looking into Chinese companies in the network and sifting through business registration documents provided…
Quote of the week: “If arms control were killed, it would have to be reinvented.” – Paul Warnke The canonical objectives of Cold War-era arms control were laid out in the seminal book by Thomas Schelling and Mort Halperin, Strategy…
This post is co-authored with David Schmerler. We read a lot of newspaper stories, some of which seem … unreliable. NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR TEST MOUNTAIN COLLAPSED. NORTH KOREA WILL ABANDON ITS ICBMS. FRANCE GETS ALL THE BOMBS. One of the…
Kim Jong Un said he is closing the nuclear test site at Punggye-ri. But if outside inspectors and exports aren’t allowed in, it could just be a PR stunt with no substantive contribution to “denuclearization.” Jeffrey and Aaron talk about…
