Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard-Liners

Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard-Liners 7 July 2005 By Selig S. Harrison I. Introduction Selig S. Harrison, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame“, wrote: “For now the hard-liners are in charge in Pyongyang. Pending normalized relations, North Korea is unlikely to reduce its nuclear […]

DPRK Trip Report May 10th, 2005

 I.Introduction Selig Harrison, author of Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement and director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy, writes: “Once again, Pyongyang is offering to negotiate a freeze that would prevent further reprocessing, as it did in June, 1994, leading to the Agreed Framework, and as it […]

JASON’s Tactical Lessons

CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Essay by Michael LeviIII. Nautilus Invites Your Responses I. Introduction Michael A. Levi, Director of the Strategic Security Project at the Federation of American Scientists, asserts that today we again find the Bush Administration speaking loosely of tactical uses for nuclear weapons, in Iraq or in future contingencies. The enormous power […]