Joe Cirincione, chief of the disarmament group Ploughshares, has a cogent analysis of why the Hanoi summit of President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un failed. The opportunity, he notes, was this: In Hanoi, North Korea wanted to trade some of their nuclear capability for most of the sanctions. Trump offered some of the...
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South Korea Spy Chief May Soon Visit North Korea
Last week I reported on how South Korean president Moon Jae-In is seeking to mediate between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the wake of their abortive summit meeting in Hanoi. Now we have details about how. According to the Korea Times, Moon is sending Suh Hoon, chief of the National Intelligence...
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Google Is Still Working on Censored China Search Engine, Employees Claim
Google has been developing a search engine for the China market that complies with the Beijing government’s demands for censorship. Google employees have been resisting the project, saying they don’t want to be complicit in China’s restrictions. Google leaders have told employees they were shutting down the program, known as Dragonfly. But company sources tell...
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South Korea’s Moon Seeks to Mediate between Trump and Kim
The breakdown of the U.S. North Korea nuclear talks was a setback for South Korean president Moon Jae-in who has to battle with both hawks at home and Democrats in Washington who don’t know or care about his agenda of ending the Korean War and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. From KBS WORLD Radio Moon instructed...
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The Ancient History of Espionage
British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew via The National Interest, the first books to argue that intelligence should have a central role in war and peace were written not in classical Greece or Rome but in ancient China and the Indian subcontinent: The Art of War (Sunzi bingfa), traditionally ascribed to Confucius’s contemporary, the Chinese general...