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Slow and Unsteady Progress with North Korea Helps Kim Jong Un

Cipher Brief Update: On August 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a Special Representative for North Korea. Steve Biegun will "direct all [...] More

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North Korea's Denuclearization: Is Cuba a Better Model than Libya?

A revised and improved “Cuba model” for denuclearizing North Korea might have gotten a more receptive ear from Pyongyang than US National Security [...] More

The Tasks & Opportunities Facing Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel assumes the position of D/CIA admirably prepared in all possible respects — in general, of course, given 33 years with the agency, and [...] More

South Korea Has Reassessed the Value of its American Alliance

As they strolled on the beach at Dalian earlier this week, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un had a lot to discuss.China’s idea of the perfect Korean [...] More

With Influence Activities Exposed, the Kremlin Acts Even More Boldly

Russian influence operations were thrust into the public limelight in the West in 2017 with the findings of the U.S. Intelligence Community that [...] More

How the U.S. Can Fight for Tokyo Too with Kim Jong Un

Within moments of greeting President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in mid-April, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe clinched a key strategic objective [...] More

What if the Insider Threat Is You?

Sometimes we're the threat, whether to ourselves or others, without even realizing it. Insider threats trace back to humans, thus, it's at our own [...] More

Leveraging Accountability to Fix Cybersecurity

When accountability is used as innovation, it not only drives social change but also helps solve seemingly intractable problems. Cybersecurity is an [...] More

There is No Such Thing as Cyber Deterrence. Please Stop.

History suggests that applying the wrong operational framework to an emerging strategic environment is a recipe for failure. During the World War I, [...] More

NATO Observer Group: Keeping Watch on Moscow from the US Senate

As the U.S., NATO and other allies move against Russia over an alleged nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy in Britain, bipartisan moves [...] More

The Saudis Want a Nuclear Program. The Israelis Are Concerned.

In an unexpected turn of events, the sequence of dramatically different policies of the Obama and Trump Administrations has exacerbated the problem [...] More

Firing McCabe Is a "Gut Punch" and "Blow to What is Right"

Such is the world in which we now live that I cannot say I was surprised to learn late Friday that former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe had been [...] More

How South Korea – and North Korean Intel Chiefs – Got Trump to Say Yes

The key to understanding the remarkable developments over North Korea in recent weeks is that the two Koreas have been working jointly to manage the [...] More