U.S. Criticism of ‘Suspected’ Nuclear Sites May Derail Talks, North Korean Media Warns
IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. Criticism of ‘Suspected’ Nuclear Sites May Derail Talks, North Korea to Let U.N. Aviation Agency Officials Conduct On-Site Missile Safety Inspection, China, Close to Establishing Its Own ‘Nuclear Triad,’ Has Practiced Targeting U.S., Iran Tells EU to Speed up Efforts to Save Nuclear Deal, Adversaries Could Have Fiddled With U.S. Satellites, Revisited: The German Nuclear Debate
U.S. Criticism of ‘Suspected’ Nuclear Sites May Derail Talks, North Korean Media Warns
Edward Wong | New York Times
American negotiators have confronted North Korean officials over “suspected” secret nuclear facilities, according to a North Korean state news media commentary, which called the Trump administration accusations “fiction” and said they had led to “derailing dialogue” between the two nations.
North Korea to Let U.N. Aviation Agency Officials Conduct On-Site Missile Safety Inspection
Japan Times
North Korea has agreed to allow International Civil Aviation Organization staff to conduct an on-site inspection to ensure the safety of international flights from the country’s missile launches, according to officials with the Montreal-based U.N. agency.
China, Close to Establishing Its Own ‘Nuclear Triad,’ Has Practiced Targeting U.S.
Tara Copp | Military Times
The Pentagon, for the first time, has publicly reported what commanders in the Pacific have known about, and kept a wary eye on, for some time: China is practicing long-range bombing runs against U.S. targets.
Iran Tells EU to Speed up Efforts to Save Nuclear Deal
Parisa Hafezi | Reuters
Iran urged Europe on Monday to speed up efforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned in May, saying French oil group Total has formally pulled out of a major gas project.
Adversaries Could Have Fiddled With U.S. Satellites: DoD IG
Colin Clark | Breaking Defense
If Chinese and Russian spies have been doing their jobs well, they might well have been able to compromise some of America’s most important satellites, including the missile launch detection birds known as SBIRS.
Revisited: The German Nuclear Debate
Ulrich Kühn and Tristan Volpe | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s implicit threat to pull out of NATO at the alliance’s Brussels Summit, the nuclear debate again flared up in Germany. Newly updated, Ulrich Kühn and Tristan Volpe’s “Tracking the German Nuclear Debate” database underscores a shift in this debate towards the question of how an alternative nuclear arrangement for Germany might materialize, or, respectively, why it would not be feasible.
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