Russia’s Proposal for N. Korean Denuclearization
Will It Survive John Bolton?
The Trump administration is looking askance at what may be a legitimate Russian effort to break the current disarmament deadlock between the United States and North Korea. According to The Washington Post, Russia made a secret proposal to North Korea last fall to advance negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang regarding North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Reality of North Korean Missiles vs. the Mythology of Missile Defense
Last month, the mainstream media endorsed the Pentagon’s description of a collision between an American interceptor rocket and a mock intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean as the “first successful test of whether it could shoot down a North Korean warhead racing toward the United States.” Nonsense!
Melvin A. Goodman
Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University. His 42-year government career included tours at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense’s National War College, where he was a professor of international security.
You might be wondering what took so long for my new book to come out.
After encountering constant delays and road blocks during the review process, my book has been in a holding pattern, waiting for publication for more than a year.
As a result, I am one of five former federal employees that filed a lawsuit against several agencies, asserting that the government’s pre-review process for publication is an unconstitutional “system of censorship.”
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