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U.S. rejects NorKs’ demand for recognition as a nuclear state

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:21:41 +0000

We demand to be taken seriously!

After months of an extended tantrum in which they have repeatedly threatened — oh, I don’t know — nuclear war, the North Korean regime demanded on Tuesday that they be Taken Seriously and get a spot at the big kids’ table as a nuclear-weapons state before they agree to a sit-down dialogue with South Korea [...]

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“Flexibility”: Biden to open new nuclear discussions with Russia

Erika Johnsen — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:11:15 +0000

I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

“After the election, I have more flexibility.” Well, Putin did back off on pressing the issue of further reductions in missile defense, but now that the election is over, the Russian government and our own apparently have some unfinished business to take care of. Vice President Biden is kicking off a four-day European trip on [...]

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Just a quick glance at North Korea’s secret prison camps

Erika Johnsen — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:41:21 +0000

"Foreign propaganda"? Yeah, nice try.

I tend towards ranting about the deplorable state of human rights in communist China quite a bit around here, but while we’re on the subject of North Korea’s recent belligerent advances, there is plenty that goes on behind their dictatorial borders that the Kim regime doesn’t care for outsiders to know about, either. When it [...]

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Brokaw: Biden shouldn’t have been yucking it up during a discussion about nuclear war

Erika Johnsen — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:41:38 +0000

No laughing matter.

I think I’m more or less with Peggy Noonan on the outcome of last night’s VP debate — the debate seemed like a tie on substance (partly, I thought, because Raddatz seemed to avoid spending too much time on Ryan’s strengths, i.e. spending and the economy, and focused way too much on foreign policy), but [...]

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Iran: We’ll stop the flow of Gulf oil if sanctions are imposed

Tina Korbe — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:15:27 +0000

Just bluster?

Iran today threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if the United Nations imposes sanctions on Iranian oil as a response to Iran’s sketchy uranium enrichment program, according to a report from Reuters. Iran has defiantly expanded nuclear activity despite four rounds of U.N. sanctions meted out since 2006 over its refusal to suspend sensitive [...]

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