Hwasong 10 and 12 missiles.
I made a thing to help compare the Hwasong-10 and Hwasong-12 missiles. A lot of people are rushing out their analysis. We’d like to get it right before publishing. I am old fashioned like that.
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Daniel Salisbury: A Malaysian Shipyard with North Korean Connections?
This is a guest post by CNS Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Salisbury. The assassination in February of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport has turned international attention to North Korea’s other shady activities in Malaysia. A…
Guest Post: The Chinpo Shipping Case Implodes
A guest post from my colleague Andrea Berger: Chinpo Shipping (Private) Pty is our model proliferation finance prosecution. Or at least it was, until last week, when it all came apart at the seams. In June 2014, Singaporean prosecutors filed…
The Hwasong-12, finally
North Korea has finally tested (successfully) a new missile — and boy it is a doozy. After the April 15 parade, we called this missile the KN-08 Mod Odd and the KN-08 +/-. But North Korea calls it the Hwasong-12 and…
En Marche!
France has elected Emmanuel Macron as President, which is a chance for Jeffrey to inflict upon Aaron endless stories illustrating his love of French wine, food, and nuclear weapons.
Nuclear South Asia
Quotes of the week: “Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.” –Aeschylus “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” –Mark Twain When you find yourself in a hole, recovery is a multi-step process.…
THAAD Deployment
Jeffrey and Aaron don’t really want to keep talking about North Korea, but there is a US THAAD battery sitting on a fricking golf course. That calls for a podcast, one in which Aaron and Jeffrey discuss the politics of…
THE GREENER BEE
Do you remember THE GREEN BEE? Where we talked about a mysterious Taiwanese ballistic missile that looked a lot like the Lance? Well the research continues and new data has come to light putting the Green Bee firmly on the…
Korea and the Limits of Coercive Ambiguity
(With apologies to Alexander George.) North Korea and the Trump Administration turn out to be a pretty heady mix. That blend has been driving Americans to distraction for weeks, and keeping the natsec Twittersphere continuously busy. With North Korea in mind, I dashed off…
The American Century
Quote of the week: “Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” —David Fromkin, The Way of the World, with due credit to Heraclitus and Gautama In an essay published in Life magazine, media impresario Henry…
