North Korea Back From Nuclear War Threats; Kim Will Follow the “Foolish and Stupid Conduct of the Yankees”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to take a step back from the brink of nuclear war. Tuesday, official state media KCN reported that Kim would now “watch a little more the foolish and stupid More...
President Trump, North Korea and Nuclear War
By Louis René Beres Increasingly, Donald Trump is showing palpable signs of debility. Most worrisome, in this sobering display, is the president’s conspicuously proud disregard for science, history, More...
North Korea: American Army Preparing for Option in Case Sanctions Fail
Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford who arrived in South Korea has warned Monday that the US is preparing military options in case sanctions forced on North Korea failed. He said the United States is ready More...
Between Pyongyang, Washington and Jerusalem: Intersecting Nuclear Nightmares
By Louis René Beres “The terrible ‘ifs’ accumulate.” (Winston Churchill) A tense war of words between North Korea and the United States continues to overheat. Although Washington’s More...
North Korea: ‘Trump’s Threats Are Nonsense’; Guam Strike ‘Ready by Mid-August’
North Korea announced on Thursday that it would complete its medium-range missile launch plan at the US-sponsored island of Guam, at mid-August. Pyongyang rejected President Donald Trump’s threats, More...
President Trump’s Rave Heightens Fears of Conflict: “Fire and Fury”
North Korea announced Wednesday that it is seriously considering an attack the US air base on Pacific island of Guam, with medium to long range missiles. The state news agency KCNA quoted the ruling party More...
Rationality Can’t Be Assumed in Potential North Korea Conflict
By Louis Rene Beres In large measure, the rising nuclear threat from North Korea will depend on the discernible rationality or irrationality of the North Korean leader. Moreover, although very few American military More...
US Air Force Tests Unarmed Intercontinental Minuteman Iii Ballistic Missile
Days after North Korea fired the second missile in less than a month, into the Sea of Japan, the U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Wednesday morning from More...
Rationality Can’t Be Assumed in Potential North Korea Conflict
By Louis Rene Beres In large measure, the rising nuclear threat from North Korea will depend on the discernible rationality or irrationality of the North Korean leader. Moreover, although very few American More...
Deterring North Korea Requires More Than Basic Common Sense
“It is in the thick of a calamity,” says Albert Camus in “The Plague,” “that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” Unless we plan comprehensively and prudently More...