Read the full piece in The Cipher Brief here. North Korea’s July intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests have crossed a new capability threshold, allowing Pyongyang to potentially reach the continental United States. Further, U.S. intelligence estimates predict that North Korea now possesses the technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and place it on an ICBM. […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh’s Op-Ed in Al Jazeera
Read the full op-ed in Al Jazeera here. This week, the United States and its ally South Korea began large-scale military exercises, and North Korea responded by threatening “merciless retaliation”. This follows Pyongyang’s recent back-and-forth over whether to strike Guam and President Trump’s warning that North Korea was facing a future of “fire and fury”. […]
National Advisory Board Member Amb. Thomas Graham Jr.’s op-ed in Richmond Times-Dispatch
Read the full op-ed in Richmond Times-Dispatch here. On Aug. 5, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a powerful sanctions resolution on North Korea, said to be the strictest imposed on a country in a generation. These new sanctions were in response to North Korea’s reckless actions in testing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Two days […]
Col. Richard Klass’ op-ed in The Hill
Read the full piece in The Hill here. The most worrying thing about the current fight between President Trump and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) is that it is just that. Normally the dispute would be between the DPRK and an American administration. But there is no Trump administration. To have an administration, […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times here. Philip E. Coyle III, a retired nuclear weapons design executive for the Energy Department and a former senior Pentagon official, said North Korea’s two-stage Hwasong-14 missile, which flew 45 minutes and reached an altitude of 1,850 miles in space in late July, is significantly smaller than […]
