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North Korea’s Sticking Points: Abduction and Uranium Enrichment

OPINION — In September 2002, North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, admitted to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that North Korea had [...] More

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Expert Q&A: U.S. Should Reach Out to North Korea

EXPERT Q&A – As The Cipher Brief has reported, North Korea recently unveiled evidence that it is building what its state media called a [...] More

North Korea’s Underwater ‘Apex Predator’ – and What it Will Mean 

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — Headlines from North Korea rarely bring good news in the realm of global security, but this week’s bulletin from Pyongyang was [...] More

Expert Q&A: From Ukraine to North Korea’s New Nuclear Sub

EXPERT Q&A — On a day when Ukraine felt the pain of a pause in intelligence sharing from the U.S. in the form of deadly Russian drone and missile [...] More

Security Assurances and Lasting Peace in Ukraine 

OPINION — President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine are admirable. Equally important, however, are [...] More

The Global Shift To Authoritarianism 

OPINION — Based on my numerous assignments abroad, my work for the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey as his Special Assistant and [...] More

The US Should Not 'Give Up' on Engagement with North Korea 

OPINION — The absence of any diplomatic engagement with North Korea during the past four years has resulted in a more belligerent North Korea, now [...] More

Expert Q&A: North Korea and Russia – ‘Fighting and Dying’ Together

EXPERT Q&A — Western officials report that of the estimated 11,000 North Korean troops sent to fight in Russia’s western Kursk region, 4,000 have [...] More

How Can the U.S. better manage the Gray Zone?

This is part three in a three-part series by Cipher Brief Expert and former Assistant Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts, who also [...] More

The North Korean Card in Ukraine

OPINION — The Budapest Memorandum of December 1994 provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for that country giving up its nuclear [...] More

What are our Adversaries trying to achieve in the Gray Zone? 

This is part 2 of a 3-part series by Cipher Brief Expert and former Assistant Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts, who also serves [...] More

Syria's Rebellion Could Be a Turning Point for Axis of US Adversaries

OPINION — The Ukraine war has often been characterized as a precipitating factor in the growing alignment of the United States’ key [...] More

8 Global Security Questions For 2025

SPECIAL REPORT — Given how unpredictable 2024 proved to be – did anyone foresee the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, the decapitation of Hezbollah, an [...] More