Siegfried Hecker on the New Russia-DPRK Relationship and Nuclear Cooperation
On Sunday, Kim Jong Un returned triumphantly from a tour of Russia’s Far East. That trip has almost certainly set…
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: North Korea’s HS-18 Is Not a Russian ICBM
An August 17 article by a prominent academic technical expert claimed that North Korea’s new solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM),…
The Unintended Consequences of NATO’s Drift Toward Asia
As one might expect, the July 11-12 National Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, concentrated predominately on…
Second Consecutive Flight Test Success Brings North Korea’s Hwasong-18 ICBM Closer to Deployment
North Korea successfully conducted a second flight test of the Hwasong-18 (HS-18) solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 12.…