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Nuke Street
Iran, North Korea, and Disarmament: Some Questions
Sheel kant Sharma. · 03 Jul, 2018 · #5489 · Commentary
These recent weeks have shown extraordinary results in the Korean Peninsula. There is an interesting ring in President Trump announcing that DPRK was ...
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Asian Militaries and Artificial Intelligence
Vijay Sakhuja. · 25 Jun, 2018 · #5484 · Commentary
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found significant use in military hardware, and AI-enabled weapons and sensors are being developed by the US, Russia and a number of European countries. Likewise, some Asian militaries such as China, Japan, South Kore ...
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The Trump-Kim Summit: Geopolitical and Economic Implications for China
Ayan Tewari. · 18 Jun, 2018 · #5481 · Commentary
The 12 June 2018 summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore has seemingly begun the process easing of relations between North Korea and the US, and by extension, the West. If the efforts ...
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East Asia Compass
Summit Season: From Inter-Korea to Trump-Kim
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 12 May, 2018 · #5465 · Commentary
The news of an inter-Korea summit between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un earlier this year understandably invited a lot of international attention. Pictures of Kim Jong-un holding hands with Moon Jae-in, smiling and crossing the border together, portray ...
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Between Sanctions and Diplomacy: North Korea's Balancing Act
Shivani Singh. · 30 Apr, 2018 · #5461 · Commentary
The possibility of bilateral negotiations between North Korea and the US is a sign of relief after months of prevailing tensions in the Korean Peninsula. Following a long trajectory of strained relations between North Korea and the West, North Korea ...
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East Asia Compass
Regional Stability and Japan's Irresponsible Political Gambit
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 06 Apr, 2018 · #5456 · Commentary
It is a critical time for the North Korean nuclear and missile issue, and South Korea, the US and other stakeholder states have accorded it their highest priority. Japan, however, is focusing its primary attention on the abduction of its citizens by ...
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East Asia Compass
South Korea's 'Moonshine' and a Trump-Kim Summit
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 12 Mar, 2018 · #5447 · Commentary
In a major of turn of events, US President Donald Trump has announced direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The US and North Korea have been loggerheads for a long time on the issue of North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. The ...
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The Strategist
Quad: The Making of a Robust Entente?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 12 Mar, 2018 · #5446 · Commentary
The force planner’s primary task is to ensure that the military element of national power alongside economic and political elements supports national strategy. India had in 1950 defined national goals in the Preamble and Directive Principles to ...
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Nuke Street
Winter Olympics in the Nuclear Shadow
Sheel kant Sharma. · 05 Mar, 2018 · #5441 · Commentary
Mixed signals have come from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but they are once again wrapped in fierce and heightened rhetoric; from Washington, about the dire consequences of North Korean defiance in word and deed, and Pyongyong calling sanctions an ...
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Maritime Matters
The Debut of Counter-Drone Technologies
Vijay Sakhuja. · 27 Feb, 2018 · #5438 · Commentary
During his speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "brandished" a piece of debris from an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) brought down by the Israeli military after it ent ...
