Occasional Paper #35 is intended to aid Southeast Asian governments and financial institutions to counter financing of WMD programs in North Korea and other states of concern.
Closer coordination is essential as countries with a stake in this issue are still miles apart on everything from the scale of the threat to the most desirable way forward.
Nothing good will come from the unyielding stances that prevail in Washington and Pyongyang.
This is likely part of an annual slowdown in testing we’ve observed now in North Korea for several years.
It takes a lot of rosy assumptions to get to President Trump’s 97% chance of success.
The US has forgotten the cold logic of nuclear diplomacy. Time to remember it.
Fake news is threatening to produce a very real war.
The longer the wait, the greater North Korea’s technological capabilities will become, making diplomacy and war more difficult and dangerous.
Open threats of annihilation only reinforce the importance of weapons of mass destruction for the survival of the North Korean state.
For a country with such limited resources, how has North Korea’s ballistic missile program progressed so far?
