To be prepared against North Korea's nuclear capabilities, South Korea should be prepared to execute preemptive, conventional strikes, argues Ju Hyung Kim of the Security Management Institute.
"We are essentially funding nuclear weapons development in North Korea with our bad software practices," said Kathleen Fisher, director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office.
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North Korea's most recent cruise missile test sends two signals: both a show of capability, and a "welcome back" for Donald Trump, experts said.
"This is the group that if Kim Jong Un wants something done, something done in-house, ‘Hey, we need a missile program, we need to do this,’ Andariel's the one to go out and find the blueprints,” Mandiant's Michael Barnhart told Breaking Defense.
In a new analysis, Ralph Savelsberg of the Netherlands Defence Academy warns that North Korea's October launch demonstrated the ability to deliver an almost 20 percent greater payload into Guam.
South Korea's strategy says the ROK will "nurture a sounder and more mature relationship as we pursue shared interests (with China) based on mutual respect and reciprocity, guided by international norms and rules."
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
For US nuclear stocks, Jill Hruby of the Department of Energy said, "this is the most demanding moment in the history of our nation's nuclear enterprise since the Manhattan Project."
"The question is," asks Jenny Town of the Stimson Center, "how to step down from this ledge before an accident escalates into something much more dangerous?"
“We don't have a plan to change our permanent positioning or stationing of assets on the peninsula currently … but you’ll see assets move in and out on a routine basis,” Austin said during a press conference following a meeting at the Pentagon with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-Sup.
“Every day that goes by makes North Korea a more dangerous country,” John Bolton said at CSIS. “When does it become too late? Today is better than tomorrow. Tomorrow is better than the next day.”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: "In North Korea, we saw war threats that ended in hugs, a dead end in negotiations, hugs again, and then the story repeats all over again. The same could happen with Iran."
There is "a significant opportunity for the United States to come to the table and negotiate with North Korea and at least begin the steps to take the program back," says Ranking HASC Member Mike Turner.
The Heritage Foundation is pretty much the only Washington thinktank President Trump ever mentions and he’s been known to refer to their analyses when he speaks about defense. So, when one of Heritage’s experts wants to rebut the arguments of one of the top defense Democrats on Capitol Hill, we’re inclined to give them a […]
Rep. Adam Smith called into question the decades-old backbone of US nuclear policy, while calling for a "total redo" of the Nuclear Posture Review the Pentagon released earlier this year.