Larry Niksch (right) from CRS recently published an interesting summary of the relevant intel in the Chosun Ilbo. Niksch mentions a pair of 1993 Russian intel reports that point toward a North Korean HEU program: There are also assessments from non-U.S. sources simultaneous with or earlier than those of the Clinton Administration. Of special importance …
EU Arms Embargo on China
by | 2005-03-24 | 1 Comment
Check out the Export Control Blog maintained by Scott Gearity, an export compliance consultant and owner/founder of Gearity Consulting Group. His coverage of the EU’s deliberations over the arms embargo on China has been first rate—even if I find his (and much of Washington’s) opposition to lifting the embargo kind of strange. To be precise, …
Did the Bush Administration Lie to Allies about North Korea?
by | 2005-03-24 | 2 Comments
These UF6 containers are from Hungary. Remember that allegation that North Korea sold Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) to Libya? Remember how the IAEA attempted to reproduce the results, finding the evidence inconclusive? Yeah, well, it turns out that the evidence was inconclusive—and the clowns sent to brief our Asian allies knew it. Dafna Linzer reports that …
Strategy of the Weak
by | 2005-03-21 | 2 Comments
The National Defense Strategy, released last week, strongly implies that international fora threaten to US security: Our strength as a nation-state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, using international fora, judicial processes and terrorism. That is a very strange sentence to read, sitting here in the Palais …
