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Dec 20, 2014

US Faces Tough Challenge in Responding to North Korean Cyber Attack

By New Atlanticist

‘Proportionate’ Response Will Be Hard to Shape, Atlantic Council’s Jason Healey Says The US government faces a tough challenge in determining how to fulfil President Obama’s promise to “respond proportionately” to North Korea’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures, according to Atlantic Council analyst Jason Healey. “What this really means for now is that the administration […]

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Dec 19, 2014

Healey: In Response to Sony Hack, United States Should Focus on China

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey writes for Christian Science Monitor on how the United States should respond to North Koreas’s hack of Sony:

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Dec 19, 2014

Metzl on Sony Hacking

By Jamie Metzl

Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CBS to discuss the North Korean cyberattack on Sony:

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Dec 18, 2014

Metzl on Sony’s Decision to Cancel Moving Screening

By Jamie Metzl

Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner to discuss the decision by Sony Pictures to cancel screenings of the film ‘The Interview’ due to threats from North Korea”: Watch the full interview here.

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Dec 18, 2014

Metzl on Canceled Sony Pictures Movie

By Jamie Metzl

Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tappe to discuss Sony’s decision to pull its screening of the movie ‘The Interview’ due to threats emanating from North Korea:

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Dec 15, 2014

New strategy unlikely to lift Pyongyang from economic doldrums

By Robert A. Manning

What does the future hold for North Korea? In 2013 North Korean Kim Jong-un proclaimed a national strategy he called byungjin (“parallel strategy”) – simultaneously developing nuclear weapons and the economy. He has raised expectations among North Korea’s 24 million citizens that he will lead the nation to prosperity.

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Nov 7, 2014

Metzl on Kim Jong Un’s Rule

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN’s The Lead to discuss North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and whether he is more dangerous than his father: 

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Oct 23, 2014

Column: Lessons of North Korea for Iran Nuclear Talks

By Barbara Slavin

Among the arguments marshaled by those wary of a nuclear agreement with Iran is that past efforts to negotiate away North Korea’s nuclear weapons program failed. Iran’s regime, they argue, is just as untrustworthy as North Korea’s and what’s more, Wendy Sherman, the chief U.S. negotiator with Iran, was also involved in talks with the […]

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Oct 17, 2014

Manning: The North Korea Conundrum

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for US News and World Report on what North Korea’s recent “charm offensive” of proactive diplomacy means for its nuclear program: 

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Oct 8, 2014

Transcript: The Future of US Extended Deterrence in East Asia

By The Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council The Future of US Extended Deterrence in East Asia Welcome: Jon Huntsman, Chairman, Atlantic Council Moderator: Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security Speakers: Richard Armitage, President, Armitage International Kurt Campbell, Chairman and CEO, The Asia Group, LLC Location: 1030 15th Street, NW, 12th Floor (West Tower), Washington, […]

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