On Wednesday 22nd March, Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discussed ‘North Korea’s Evolving Nuclear Force’.
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North Korea and Denuclearisation: What Are the Obstacles, and What’s Next?
This article was authored by Edward Howell at the University of Oxford. The US State…
Washington’s Northeast Asian nuclear umbrella and Sino-American strategic relations
The American nuclear umbrella, though focused on the DPRK, also positions Washington against one of its major great power rivals. As the US Naval War College’s Terrence Roehrig has argued, the US nuclear umbrella concurrently deters China to an extent.
Conflicting Paths to the Same Goal: Beijing, Washington and the North Korean Security Crisis
American policy and media discourse over China have recently hardened perceptibly due to several contentious issues in economics, geopolitics and security.
Report: Changing Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Trump Era: Implications for Europe
President Trump’s emerging nuclear policy presents ‘extraordinary challenges to strategic stability, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation within Europe’, and undermines European security. President Trump’s US Nuclear Posture Review is expected in the next two months.
Can North Korea strike the United States with a nuclear missile?
Paul Ingram, Executive Director of BASIC, speaks to the BBC’s Chris Sibthorpe about North Korea’s lofted ballistic missile test…
Is the DPRK’s Nuclear March Unstoppable?
The specter of nuclear conflict is not new for the Korean peninsula. As an occupied territory under the Japanese Empire, the Koreans could also…
US – North Korea: An Unnecessary Crisis
Let no one say the Trump Administration has not been creative in foreign policy in its first 100 days. It has created a full-blown crisis over North Korea and it is sustaining it.
The crisis was not caused by North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. It was caused by what the U.S. Administration says about it. “We won’t allow North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and long-range missiles,” said President Trump. Vice-President Mike Pence warns North Korea not to test America’s resolve.