ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports that North Korea is “unloading of large reels of cable outside P’unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea [that] can be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside observation equipment.” Without commenting on the merit of the report, I simply note that the P’unggye-yok …
Mottaki: Suspension Illogical
by | 2006-08-17 | 3 Comments
Much of the international press—including the BBC, Reuters and AFP—quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki calling the Security Council call for the suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities “illogical.” Despite the giggling and Spock jokes, the transcript on the Iranian Foreign Ministry page reads differently: We have repeatedly announced that we are ready to negotiate with …
Gerson's Iran Insights
by | 2006-08-15 | 21 Comments
Last week, Steve Clemons posted about an Aspen conference of foreign policy luminaries who discussed solutions to the Iran nuclear issue. I’ll be interested to learn what they came up with. Anyway, Steve wrote that …the single most important consensus that did seem to emerge from the discussion is that at some point in the …
Appeal On India-US Nuclear Deal
by | 2006-08-14 | 7 Comments
I’ve seen a couple of news stories about the Appeal to Parliamentarians on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal issud by the usual suspects—prominent Indian nuclear scientists who oppose the US-India nuclear deal. I haven’t seen a copy posted elsewhere yet, so here it is. I’ve already gotten a few e-mails from people pointing out what they …
