East Asia

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Walls and Ladders: The Latest UN Report on DPRK Sanctions

Commentary published in War on the Rocks.

Donald Trump

Trump is Walking into Kim Jong Un’s Trap

The North Koreans have sought a visit from a sitting president of the U.S. since the Clinton administration.

Joshua Pollack

Good Words from DPRK, but Actions Will Be Harder

Op/ed in the NY Daily News by NPR Editor Joshua Pollack

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The Trump-Kim Summit Won’t End Well

This is no way to run nuclear diplomacy.

Richard Engel of NBC News interviews Jeffrey Lewis in Monterey.

NBC News Features Innovative Work of CNS Researchers

“Middlebury isn’t a secret department of the CIA, the NSA, – it is part of a liberal arts college. There are no spies here, just a team of researchers working what is known as open source intelligence.”

Jeffrey Lewis on PBS Newshour

CNS “Sleuths” Featured on PBS Newshour

VIDEO: The open-source analysts show Miles O’Brien how to decode North Korean propaganda.

Kim Jong Un presides over military parade. Image credit Omgyjya North Korea/Flickr

To North Korea, Trump’s Military Parade Will Look Like Fear, Not Strength

Jeffrey Lewis’s op/ed in the Washington Post

Daily Beast

A Modest Proposal for Striking North Korea

A “bloody nose” that would also be “unquestionably hilarious.”

DPRK missile graphic

When a North Korean Missile Accidentally Hit a North Korean City

Early last year, a North Korean IRBM crashed in a populated area. What does that tell us?

Trump is Bluffing about Attacking North Korea in 2018

But that still might get us all killed.