Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Huffington Post about the demands made during the Trump-Kim summit. Those demands resembled what Republicans pushed for when the Obama administration was pursuing negotiations with Iran, but they aren’t realistic, or even necessarily desirable, said Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who worked on arms control issues. […]
Former Congressman, Arms Control Expert: There Is Little for Negotiators to Build Upon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anna Schumann (June 12, 2018 — WASHINGTON) Former Congressman John Tierney, Executive Director of the Council for a Livable World, released the following statement after the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore: “President Trump has gone from his pre-summit ‘reality TV mindset’ that the whole nuclear disarmament issue could be resolved in a […]
Who “Won” The North Korea Summit Is A Lot More Complicated Than You Think
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Bustle about “winning” a nuclear negotiations summit. “The North Koreans didn’t really have to give us anything, and we gave them something that was really important to them, which was equal footing on a global stage,” she says, noting that promises to freeze the country’s missile and nuclear […]
All the Times North Korea Promised to Denuclearize
Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with Wired about North Korea’s history with nuclear agreements and whether this time, things could be different. “There’s definitely a pattern where the North Koreans agree to denuclearize in theory, but then there’s not really a substantive process that they agree to, to actually hammer it out,” says James McKeon, […]
Denuclearization is a slow process
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Al Jazeera about the process of complete, verifiable, irreversible disarmament.
