Challenges With Implementing Proliferation Financing Controls: How Export Controls Can Help
Togzhan Kassenova | World Export Control Review
Detecting proliferation-relevant illicit financing is even harder than detecting money laundering or terrorism financing. Governments and financial institutions around the world have been dealing with money laundering and terrorism financing for decades. They have developed typologies, “red flags,” and standard operating procedures to minimize exposure to money laundering or terrorism financing. Compared to money laundering and terrorism financing, proliferation financing is a relatively recent and less understood challenge.
U.S., North Korea to Hold Second Day of Nuclear Talks
Rodrigo Campos and Daniel Bases | Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and high-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong Chol will try to settle nuclear disagreements and set up a historic summit between their leaders, holding a second day of meetings on Thursday in New York. Trump said he was hopeful his unprecedented summit with Kim, who exchanged violent rhetoric with the U.S. president before they began talking of a summit, would take place on June 12 as originally scheduled but left open the possibility talks would fall through.
Russian Foreign Minister Meets Kim Jong Un, Calls for Lifting of Sanctions
Steve George | CNN
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a trip to Pyongyang Thursday, as Moscow steps up efforts to increase its influence in the region ahead of proposed talks between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters after meeting with his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho, Lavrov called for the phased lifting of sanctions on North Korea, suggesting that denuclearization would only be achievable if sanctions were scaled back.
CIA Report Says North Korea Won’t Give Up Nuclear Weapons, But Might Open a Burger Joint
Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian, and Carol E. Lee | NBC
A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News—a finding that conflicts with recent statements by President Donald Trump that Pyongyang intends to do so in the future. Trump is continuing to pursue a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the CIA analysis, which is consistent with other expert opinion, casts doubt on the viability of Trump’s stated goal for the negotiations, the elimination of North Korea’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
UN Chief Calls for ‘Total Elimination’ of Nuclear Weapons
Yahoo
The UN chief said Thursday the “total elimination” of nuclear weapons remained a UN priority, warning against a burgeoning new arms race. In a speech to students at Geneva University, Antonio Guterres presented a new disarmament agenda to face challenges emerging in a world where “Cold War tensions have returned.”
Adviser to Iran’s Top Leader Pushes Uranium Enrichment
Associated Press
A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is proposing Iran resume its uranium enrichment in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the deal, several Iranian officials have indicated Tehran could resume its nuclear program.