... currently unfolding international events includes the growing threat of nuclear proliferation.
Alexander Vorontsov:
How to Interpret North Korea’s Nuclear Forces Policy Act?
There is nothing unexpected in this escalation: a minimum level of mutual trust and ... ... geopolitical circumstances, both Moscow and Beijing may at some point look more favorably at the prospect of Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons and advanced means of their delivery.
Still, Russia and China are not unreasonably dissatisfied with the inconsistency ...
The Kazakhstan model of denuclearization can work for North Korea
After a year full of escalatory rhetoric, nuclear tests, and threats of war, the recent de-escalation of the North ... ... country that willingly denuclearizes can prosper economically and politically. After Kazakhstan got rid of its large repository of nuclear weapons and closed down the world’s largest testing site, both inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ...
... to whether the tested device was really a thermonuclear one; and, finally, a fear of conflict escalation and worry that the North Korean regime threatened security and could unleash a war.
The North Koreans’ motives
It's hard to argue with the ... ... Korea has repeatedly stressed that if the United States “does not abandon its hostile policy,” it will not eliminate nuclear weapons “even if the sky falls to the ground.”
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It’s difficult to understand why the regime intensified ...