Tag Archives: Asia

Is the North Korean Threat Just Bluster?

With Claudia Rosett, Ted Bromund, Fred Fleitz, Steven Hayward.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains how the U.S.’s recent actions have made any nuclear weapons threat from it far less credible, and has therefore encouraged North Korea to test the limits of American patience.

TED BROMUND of the Heritage Foundation unfolds the implications of the passage of the UN conventional arms control treaty.

FRED FLEITZ of Lignet.com reasons that despite the soon to be reopened North Korean plant being unable to produce a bomb for at least three to five years, the international community will nonetheless feel pressured to grant the country more concessions.

STEVEN HAYWARD of the Claremont Institute sets the criteria for examining the accuracy of climate modeling and determining its suitability as a factor in defense planning.

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North Korean Restart

North Korea today declared that it will restart a mothballed reactor that once put it in the nuclear weapons business.  Its closure was supposed to be proof that Pyongyang was prepared to get out of that business – and it was handsomely rewarded by the West for doing so.

The reactor is obsolete and it will probably take time to restart.  The mere fact that North Korea is willing to try, however, is a reminder of the futility of seeking to buy better behavior from despotic regimes that delight in duping us – and being paid for it.

Needless to say, this ominous episode – and more likely to follow it – should put an end to President Obama’s dangerous notion that the world will be rid of nuclear weapons, if only we continue to eliminate ours.

How Can Poor, Isolated North Korea Pose Such a Threat to the U.S.?

With Kevin Freeman, Michael O’Hanlon, Adm. Ace Lyons, Gordon Chang

What can the Cyprus banking crisis tell us about U.S. vulnerability in cyber and economic warfare? Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow KEVIN FREEMAN explains how what we see in Cyprus gives us insight into a piece of the global threat matrix.

MICHAEL O’HANLON of the Brookings Institute and co-author of Bending History, discusses the good, bad, and ugly for a post –U.S. Afghanistan.

Admiral ACE LYONS, former Pacific Fleet Commander, discusses the North Korean and Iranian threats, both nuclear and cyber.

GORDON CHANG of Forbes.com describes in great detail the state of the North Korean regime.

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Carrier-Killer

From time to time, transformative military technologies emerge that can prove to be game-changers on the battlefield and beyond. In the past, for example, machine guns, tanks, and poison gas have inspired and enabled aggression.

Now, China is believed to have deployed a ballistic missile capable of destroying U.S. aircraft carriers at sea over great distances. When combined with other anti-ship and space-control weaponry, the Chinese may be able to neutralize the huge mobile airfields that have for decades enabled America to safeguard its interests and allies throughout the Pacific.

Loose talk about a “pivot” to Asia – made all the more unlikely by the so-called sequestration budget cuts – must not be allowed to obscure, let alone preclude, a national debate about the rising threat from China, and what to do about it.

The Mysterious Death of Boris Berezovsky

With Robert Zarate, Reza Khalili, Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang.

ROBERT ZARATE of the Foreign Policy Research Institute raises several questions about Sec. Def. Chuck Hagel’s recent announcement to renew the Bush administration’s commitment to ground based missile interceptors in the U.S. which the Obama administration cut back in its first term.  Will sequestration allow the plan to follow through?  Was the cancellation of long range ICBM interceptors in Europe in fact the more important element of the announcement as it is a strategic step backward and a concession to Russian power in the region?

Former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp member and CIA agent REZA KHALILI reports new intelligence on a covert Iranian nuclear site, nuclear material, and weapons capability including numbers on weaponized grade Uranium that would seem to exceed stated Red Lines of the United States.

World renowned investigative journalist, CLAUDIA ROSETT, explains the meaning of the strange death in London of a Russian Oligarch who had fallen from the grace of the Putin regime.

GORDON CHANG of Forbes.com breaks down the nuclear threat matrix between the U.S. and China based on new reports of the China’s Carrier Killer 12,000 mile range missile.

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Missile Defense Policy Shift In Response to NK Threat

In light of Secretary Hagel’s announcement to enhance missile defense for the first time under the Obama administration in response to the North Korean threat, the chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, RIKI ELLISON joins Frank for a detailed assessment of our current missile defense capability.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman STEPHEN K. BANNON discusses his promotion of diverse viewpoints on national security among the Uninvited conservatives at CPAC 2013.

Dr. EMMANUELE OTTOLENGHI of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies outlines the issues and consequences of engaging Iran without calculating for strategic surprise.

GORDON CHANG of Forbes.com covers the power change in China and their role in arming North Korea.

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China, North Korea, and the Nuclear Threat to America

With Luke Coffey, Jon Perdue, Rick Fisher, and Fred Fleitz.

LUKE COFFEY, a Margaret Thatcher Fellow at Heritage, explains the referendum to be voted on in the Falkand Islands this Sunday that will determine whether the islands remain a British overseas territory or not, and wonders why the Obama administration has not fully supported our British allies on this issue.

Director of the Latin America Programs at the Fund for American Studies, JON PERDUE predicts the effect that Hugo Chavez’s death will have on Venezuelan relations with Cuba, China, Iran, and the United States, and encourages the United States to adopt a policy that will best support open and free elections in the coming month.

RICK FISHER, from the International Assessment and Strategy Center, interprets North Korea’s nuclear threat against the United States and stresses the need for America to learn the real size of China’s nuclear arsenal.

From lignet.com, FRED FLEITZ weighs in on the state of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez’s death, describes North Korea’s nuclear threat as a ploy to get America back to the negotiating table, and explains how recent talks with the Iranian regime in Kazakhstan have once again finished with the Iranians coming out on top.

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Chinese Warmongering: How Tibet and Disputed Islands Signal Future Aggression

With Victor Davis Hanson, John Bolton, Michael Rubin, and Gordon Chang.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, of the Hoover Institute, postulates why Obama is changing over 65 years of American foreign policy to remove the US from its preeminent place in international relations, and explains the reasoning behind Obama’s progressive move to cut defense spending to fund entitlement programs.

AMB. JOHN BOLTON, former US ambassador to the UN, analyzes the fallout from Chuck Hagel’s Senate hearing, and explains that nuclear deterrence won’t work against an enemy who believes that such destruction would lead to paradisaical glory.

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MICHAEL RUBIN, from the American Enterprise Institute, explains how Egypt is on the brink of becoming a failed state, how Turkey is not an American ally, and how Al Qaeda has planted its roots in the Syrian rebellion leading to disastrous consequences for Israel no matter the outcome of the current conflict.

GORDON CHANG, from forbes.com, interprets the war-talk coming from Chinese officials, which combined with recent increased isolation in Tibet, and aggression over disputed islands serves as a warning to America of China’s desire for war in the near future.

3 Years to North Korean Nuclear Missile Capability

With Roger Noriega, Stephen Hunter, Claudia Rosett, and Gordon Chang.

ROGER NORIEGA, from the American Enterprise Institute, explains the effects that upcoming immigrant legislation will have, interprets Venezuelan vice president Maduro’s assassination claims, and critiques current negotiations between Colombian authorities and  narco-terrorists.

STEPHEN HUNTER, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the upcoming The Third Bullet, offers exclusive insight into the creation of the JFK assassination conspiracy theory in his new book, and condemns the politicians that “pirouette on the political platform” raised from the tragedy of the Sandy Hook shootings.

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CLAUDIA ROSETT, the journalist-in-residence at Foundation for Defense of Democracy, analyzes the still resounding lack of clarity that Hillary Clinton’s Senate hearing left for the American people, and the “pass the buck” mentality that has prevailed in the administration through the whole affair.

GORDON CHANG, columnist at forbes.com, exposes the inclement threat that North Korea’s rapidly advancing missile program will have on the US and her allies, and reports on the UN conference that has led to China demanding more than $100 billion a year from the US to clean up their pollution.