Program Coordinator Abigail Stowe-Thurston spoke with the Wall Street Journal about President Trump’s visit to the DMZ between North and South Korea, and meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. With the lower-level agreements going unfulfilled, hopes of making headway on “loftier promises,” including the goal of denuclearization, have hit a ceiling, says Abigail Stowe-Thurston, […]
Trump’s North Korea visit: Diplomatic breakthrough or publicity stunt?
Program Coordinator Abigail Stowe-Thurston spoke to Sinclair about President Trump’s third visit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “Exchanging letters and engaging in summitry with a North Korean leader is certainly unorthodox, but North Korea’s political structure operates in a top-down manner, so it makes sense that there is a top-down element to diplomacy with […]
Op-ed: Trump’s gamble with Kim yet to yield results
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in the East Asia Forum about progress in North Korean nuclear negotiations one year after the first summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. ‘Fortune favours the bold’, ‘no guts, no glory’, and ‘go big or go home’. All these cliches were likely going through US President […]
Comparative Sizes of U.S., Russian and Chinese Nuclear Inventories
President Trump has discussed not wanting to extend the New START treaty with Russia without including China in the future. While wanting a multilateral deal with China is admirable, we can’t lose New START in the meantime. The inventories are just not comparable.
Did abandoning the ABM Treaty make America safer?
By Bryce Farabaugh and Deverrick Holmes, Policy Interns This month marks the seventeenth anniversary of the United States withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, a landmark agreement from the Cold War that limited American and Soviet (and subsequently, Russian) ground-based, anti-ballistic missile defense systems. Originally signed May 26, 1972, between American President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary […]
