In recent months, North Korea has test-launched an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles, and the U.S. assesses the country has imminent plans to resume nuclear testing after a five-year hiatus.
A TV screen showing a news program reporting about Sunday's North Korean missile launch with file image, is seen at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, June 5, 2022.While the world's focus has been trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear saber-rattling over Ukraine, two other longstanding threats to U.S. national security have been not so quietly amplifying their ability to wreak international havoc.
A missile is fired during a joint training between the United States and South Korea in East Coast, South Korea, June 6, 2022.The State Department has publicly messaged to Pyongyang that the door for diplomacy is open, but the U.S. Special Representative to North Korea says that sentiment has been communicated through "high-level personal messages from senior U.S. officials" via "private channels" as well.
A TV screen showing a news program reporting about Sunday's North Korean missile launch with file image, is seen at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, June 5, 2022.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said earlier this week the response to any such test by North Korea would be "swift and forceful," but so far, no official has publicly stated what exactly the reaction would be.
Bennett argues that giving North Korea's authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un the opportunity to rebuff an invitation from the U.S. plays into his hand. A cleric walks past Zolfaghar, top, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 7, 2022.As the top brass of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned of Iran's stockpiling of enriched Uranium and failure to comply with U.N. inspectors this week, the U.S. and its allies successfully pushed for a censure.
While Vaez notes that having the material to make an explosive isn't the same as having the capability to manufacture a nuclear weapon, he says the U.S. and other agencies have little oversight of those next steps.Despite the diminishing sunset clauses—expiration dates of provisions in the nuclear agreement—Vaez argues the JCPOA still holds value and is the most straightforward path to curbing Iran.
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