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North Korea
November 8th, 2012
Predicting Kim Jong Un's next steps not as easy as our elections results
Op-ed: Foreign Policy on November 7, 2012Amy Zegart, CISAC faculty member, writes in Foreign Policy that national security threats can't be predicted as well as our election outcomes. Although data can be collected easily about ship locations and military movements, personalities and intentions are unpredictable. Read more »
August 6th, 2012
Contemplating a third nuclear test in North Korea
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC co-director Siegfried Hecker and Frank Pabian, a recent CISAC visiting scholar, believe they've pinpointed the epicenters of the two nuclear tests conducted by North Korea and conclude the North is capable of carrying out a third within weeks. Read more »
July 18th, 2012
A look back at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsKEDO’s profile on the North Korean landscape was unmistakable, its impact on Pyongyang profound. Yet real knowledge and understanding about the organization in public and official circles in South Korea, Japan, and the United States was terribly thin at the beginning, and remains so to this day. As a result, the lessons learned from KEDO's decade-long experience working with the North Koreans have been largely misunderstood. Read more »
April 13th, 2012
With humiliating failure of North Korea's rocket launch, observers believe nuclear test is next
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsAs North Korea celebrates 100th birthday anniversary of its revered founder Kim Il Sung amid the humiliating failure of its attempt to launch a satellite into orbit, CISAC experts believe a third underground nuclear test could be next in North's toolbox of provocation. Read more »
April 11th, 2012
Interactive Timeline of North Korea Satellite Launch
CISAC, FSI Stanford in the newsWith North Korea's unsuccessful launch of a rocket-mounted satellite, its neighbors as well as the U.S. and its allies worry an underground nuclear test is next. This interactive timeline walks you through the tensions on the Korean Peninsula since the death of revered founder Kim Il Sung in 1994.
- » Q&A: Experts believe nuclear test to follow failed launch
- » Interactive Timeline of North Korea Satellite Launch
- » Nick Hansen in Foreign Policy: Time to worry about the next, improved missile
- » Lewis Franklin tells AP: Nuclear test could be this spring
March 22nd, 2012
Global Security Summit overshadowed by North Korea talk of satellite launch
in the newsCISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker tells Science Magazine: When dealing with North Korea, be patient. "We have to convince them that their nuclear weapons are a liability."
- » Nunn, Hecker, Taubman: World's Most Pressing Nuclear Challenges
- » Science Magazine: North Korea Conundrum Overshadows Nuclear Summit
MacArthur Foundation awards CISAC $2.45 million to enhance nuclear security research
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded Stanford’s CISAC a $2.45 million grant to support its mission of reducing the dangers of nuclear weapons. Read more »