Communications

The Trump administration—like the administrations that came before it—is currently unwilling to consider a phased approach. And therein lies its biggest mistake.

In terms of the message, president Trump signaled there are red lights in the negotiations, and Kim while trying to pressure, tries not to do so too hard.

The absence of a deal and the dynamics of the February North Korea-US summit in Vietnam showed the importance of stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, wrote INSS Arms Control Director Emily Landau In a recent INSS post she co-authored with former senior foreign ministry official Shimon Stein.

Emily Landau, the director of the Institute for National Security Studies Arms Control, is concerned that Iran might try to play for time, waiting out US President Donald Trump in the hope a new, less confrontational president will replace him in 2020. From there, she worries that the few remaining options for preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon may not succeed.

Amos Yadlin likes talking about the Begin doctrine, which calls for removing existential threats to Israel before they are manifest — maybe because he lived it twice. As an Israeli Air Force pilot, Yadlin flew one of the planes that took out Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981, when Menachem Begin was prime minister. As director of military intelligence in 2007, Yadlin oversaw the...

Diplomacy should be based on facts, well-prepared, conducted seriously, and realistic about what it can achieve. In the end, the results are what matter. We will see if President Trump’s nuclear diplomacy can pass that test.

At the end of the day, decades of failed diplomacy with North Korea led to the sad result that it is a nuclear state, and at this late stage that situation is unlikely to be reversed.

Drawing a comparison between Iran and North Korea in the nuclear realm is both conceptually sound and empirically instructive. Both states are strongly motivated nuclear proliferators that violated their NPT commitment to remain non-nuclear, and in both cases the effort to bring them back to the fold of the treaty has proven to be an extremely difficult arms control challenge...

If this sounds bizarre, Emily Landau, who is the Arms Control head at the Institute for National Security Studies, said it is actually a blast from the past. “It meets the pattern established by his father that economic issues are always part of the dynamics of the nuclear issue. Every time North Korea agreed to go to the negotiating table and to give something on the nuclear...

Since denuclearization is not on the table, we can see the two sides are entering a new deterrence dynamic [Minutes 1:17-6:33]