North Korea

^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Time to Neutralize North Korea’s Missile Threat

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Missile defense experts have long advocated a multi-layered approach to missile defense because of the difficulty of destroying an ICBM in flight. Yet, currently the United States relies on only one layer of homeland missile defense, a ground-based system of anti-missile interceptors based in Alaska and California. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
March 18, 2018
Discovery Institute, Foreign Policy}

Drones Can Protect Us From Kim’s Missiles

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 18, 2018
Discovery Institute, Foreign Policy}

Stephen Meyer and Hudson Institute’s Arthur Herman writing in The Wall Street Journal:

“President Trump’s announcement that he will meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un caught everyone by surprise. The big question is: Will the meeting reduce the threat of North Korean ballistic missiles?

Given North Korea’s record of deceit, the president will need an insurance policy against Mr. Kim’s penchant for bad-faith negotiating, especially concerning his nuclear program.

Fortunately, Congress can make a down payment this week in its 2018 omnibus spending bill, and soon after when it authorizes the Pentagon’s 2019 budget.”

Drones Can Protect Us From Kim’s Missiles

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 18, 2018
Foreign Policy}

President Trump’s announcement that he will meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un caught everyone by surprise. The big question is: Will the meeting reduce the threat of North Korean ballistic missiles? Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
September 18, 2017
Foreign Policy}

No Good Options in North Korea?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
September 18, 2017
Foreign Policy}

Many analysts have assumed that the U.S. has only three basic options for addressing the North Korean threat: an offensive first strike, diplomatic initiatives involving China and sanctions, or acquiescence. But the United States has other options that do not require either starting a war, waiting for help from the unwilling, or accepting the vulnerability of U.S. and allied cities to a North Korean missile attack. Read More ›

Collision of nuclei of elementary particles, image of nuclear reactions in the model. An explosion with the release of a huge amount of heat and power and light. Generative AI

^{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

Who Knows Who Has The Bomb? Not Us

_{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

The stunning revelation that a segment of the intelligence community believes that North Korea already has a nuclear weapon compact enough to be placed upon a ballistic missile shows anew the limits of what intelligence agencies can determine as to what goes on in closed societies. What matters from a standpoint of intelligence acuity is less whether Pyongyang can put Read More ›

^{James J. Na
November 23, 2005
Foreign Policy}

Tales of Horror Falling Mostly on Deaf Ears

_{James J. Na
November 23, 2005
Foreign Policy}

Kyeong-Sook Cha and Soon-Hee Ma, two defectors from North Korea, testified for the House Committee on International Relations, and provided firsthand accounts of widespread tragedy occurring in the Sino-North Korean border areas. In order to avoid the massive starvation resulting from North Korea’s failed economy, the daughters of these women had escaped to China to earn money for food. When Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
March 7, 2003
Technology}

Martin and Lewis at the FCC

_{John Wohlstetter
March 7, 2003
Technology}

The Federal Communications Commission’s February 20 ruling on telecom competition policy is truly beyond satire. Writing into the night like a high school student cobbling together a term paper just before semester’s end, cutting and pasting a 400-page monstrosity, forming a majority by clandestine negotiations behind the chairman’s back, is crazy enough. But then add the two Democratic commissioners, gifts Read More ›