Updated December 20, 2017
Melissa Hanham on PBS NewsHour
Warring words, nuclear tests, and increased missile capabilities have stoked fears of nuclear war between the United States and North Korea. Major media outlets across the world continue to turn to the technical and political insights of CNS experts to help understand these developments and their implications.
Op/Eds
- September 6, 2017, “A Brief History of the Huge Mess in North Korea: Talking and Food Aid Have Not Been the Problem,” Joshua Pollack for New York Daily News
- September 5, 2017, “Why didn’t the US shoot down North Korea’s missile? Maybe it couldn’t,” Joshua Pollack for The Guardian
- September 4, 2017, “The Clear Logic of the Latest North Korean Test,” Josh Pollack for The Atlantic
- September 4, 2017, “Welcome to the Thermonuclear Club, North Korea!” Jeffrey Lewis for Foreign Policy
- August 24, 2017, “I’m a nuclear weapons expert. Trump’s presidency is my personal nightmare.” Jeffrey Lewis for The Washington Post
- August 9, 2017, “The Game Is Over, and North Korea Has Won,” Jeffrey Lewis for Foreign Policy
- August 8, 2017, “U.S. should start talking with North Korea to prevent nuclear war — a tactic that solved Cuban Missile Crisis,” Josh Pollack for the New York Daily News
TV Appearances
- September 22, 2017, “What happens if North Korea tests a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific?” Jeffrey Lewis and Melissa Hanham on CNN
- September 13, 2017, “YouTube just closed a vital window into North Korea,” Joshua Pollack on CNN
- September 5, 2017, “Worst. Present. Ever.” Melissa Hanham on “The Day with Brent Goff”
- September 4, 2017, “Expert: I would bet N. Korea tested H-bomb,” Jeffrey Lewis on CNN
- August 9, 2017 “U.S., North Korea escalate nuclear fears with warring words,” Dave Schmerler on CBC
- August 8, 2017, “Reports suggest North Korea making missile-ready nuclear weapons. What should the U.S. do?” Melissa Hanham on PBS Newshour
Radio Appearances
- September 3, 2017, “North Korea Carries Out Sixth Nuclear Test,” Melissa Hanham on the BBC World Service
Print/Online Media
- December 27, 2017, “How serious is the North Korean anthrax threat?,” Melissa Hanham on CNN
- December 27, 2017, “Documents shed light on North Korea’s startling gains in sea-based missile technology,” Joshua Pollack in Washington Post
- December 20, 2017, “North Korea: Building Missiles Armed with Anthrax That Can Hit America?,” Joshua Pollack in National Interest
- December 18,2017, “We are sleepwalking toward war with North Korea,” Joshua Pollack in Vox
- December 17,2017, “Russia and NATO: Headed for a Missile Arms Race in Europe?” Nikolai Sokov in National Interest
- December 16,2017, “Cautious Hawaii prepares for a nuclear attack,” Jeffrey Lewis in the Miami Herald
- December 15,2017, “US Accuses Iran of UN Violation, but Evidence Falls Short,” Jeffrey Lewis in NY Times
- December 15,2017, “Rocket Men: The Team Building North Korea’s Nuclear Missile,” Joshua Pollack in NY Times
- December 13,2017, “Why the US would need ‘luck’ and North Korean insiders to secure regime’s nukes,” Shea Cotton in GlobalNews.ca
- December 11,2017, SWR1 Leute Interview with VCDNP’s Angela Kane
- December 11,2017, “VCDNP’s Angela Kane interviewed by Al Jazeera English for its Special on the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize,” Angela Kane on Al Jazeera
- December 10,2017, “Microbes by the ton: Officials see weapons threat as North Korea gains biotech expertise,” Melissa Hanham in Washington Post
- December 7,2017, “Air Force developing weapon that could disable North Korean missiles,” Jeffrey Lewis on CNN
- December 8, 2017, “Canada Poised to Play an Important Role in Defusing the North Korea Crisis,” Andrea Berger for The Canadian International Council
- December 6, 2017, “U.S. ex-envoy Robert Gallucci urges Washington and Pyongyang to consider China’s ‘freeze to freeze’ compromise,” Joshua Pollack in Kyodo News
- December 5, 2017, “North Korea missile: Inconsistencies spotted in Hwasong-15 images,” Jeffrey Lewis in CNN
- December 5, 2017, “How to Spy on Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Plans From 6,000 Miles Away,” Jeffrey Lewis in Bloomberg News
- December 5, 2017, “South Korea doubts North Korea’s ability to launch nuclear ICBM,” Jeffrey Lewis in CNN
- December 2, 2017, “Could Korean Reunification actually happen?” Michael Duitsman in News.Co.Au
- December 1, 2017, “North Korea’s Latest Missile Test Was Even Scarier Than It Seemed,” Jeffrey Lewis in Wired
- November 30, 2017, “The North Korea standoff will get worse: Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump are trapped in a vicious cycle,” Joshua Pollack for NY Daily News
- November 30, 2017, “US-Forderung nach diplomatischem Bruch mit Nordkorea abgelehnt,” Michael Duitsman in Reuters Deutschland
- November 30, 2017, “North Korea reveals images of new ballistic missile — and it’s a monster,” Michael Duitsman in USA Today
- November 30, 2017, “New North Korea launch footage backs up significantly bigger missile claims,” Michael Duitsman in NY Daily News
- November 29, 2017, “New missile test shows that North Korea could hit Mar-a-Lago,” Melissa Hanham in VICE
- November 29, 2017, “North Korea Says It Has ‘Completed’ Its Nuclear Program,” Jeffrey Lewis in The Atlantic
- November 28, 2017, “North Korea’s latest missile launch suggests weapons testing lull was seasonal, rather than strategic,” Shea Cotton in Washington Post
- November 28, 2017, “Missile launch the world should be afraid of,” Shea Cotton in News.Com.Au
- November 28, 2017, “‘It Can Reach Washington, DC’: Latest North Korean ICBM Can Hit Anywhere In The Continental US,” Michael Duitsman in ZeroHedge
- November 28, 2017, “Why North Korea Launched Another Missile Now, After Two Months of Silence,” Shea Cotton in Newsweek
- November 28, 2017, “Why hasn’t North Korea tested a missile in two months?,” Shea Cotton in Christian Science Monitor
- November 27, 2017, “South Korea’s loudspeakers blast North Korea with word of defecting soldier’s ill health,” Melissa Hanham in LA Times
- November 24, 2017, “The bizarrely mundane reasons why North Korea has stopped testing missiles,” Jeffrey Lewis and Shea Cotton in Vox
- November 21, 2017, “With Technology, These Researchers Are Figuring Out North Korea’s Nuclear Secrets,” Jeffrey Lewis, Melissa Hanham, and Dave Schmerler in The Washington Post
- November 20, 2017, “North Korea: A Nuclear Threat,” Melissa Hanham in Scholastic Science World
- November 17, 2017, “The Likely Reason North Korea Has Stopped Its Ballistic Missile Tests — For Now,” Shea Cotton in Forbes
- November 17, 2017, “Is it time for U.S. concessions to defuse North Korea crisis? China says yes.,” Jeffrey Lewis in USA Today
- November 17, 2017, “After Push by U.S., Asian Nations Tighten Screws on North Korea,” Andrea Berger in Wall Street Journal
- November 14, 2017, “North Korea’s Winter Training Means Fewer Missile Launches,” CNS in Bloomberg News
- November 9, 2017, “The deal for peace talks the Trump administration reportedly wants to offer Kim Jong Un,” Shea Cotton in Business Insider
- November 8, 2017, “Iran-North Korea’s ‘axis of evil’ may be Trump’s biggest threat,” Jeffrey Lewis on CNBC
- November 8, 2017, “How did NK build the bomb?,” Melissa Hanham on Channel News Asia
- November 3, 2017, “North Korea is getting busy at its missile facilities as Trump heads to Asia,” Shea Cotton in Quartz
- October 31, 2017, “How Kim Jong-un destroyed a mountain with years of huge underground test nuclear explosions,” CNS/NTI 3D model used in Irish Mirror
- October 31, 2017, Melissa Hanham on Channel News Asia
- October 26, 2017, “North Korea’s Threat: The Effect Of An Atmospheric Hydrogen Bomb Test Could Be Catastrophic?,” Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress in The Inquisitr
- October 26, 2017, “Would North Korea Actually Fire Off The ‘Juche Bird’?,” Joshua Pollack in The Daily Caller
- October 25, 2017, “This is how many missiles North Korea will test before the end of the year,” Shea Cotton in USA Today
- October 25, 2017, “North Korea ‘longest gap’ in missile tests since February,” Shea Cotton in Arirang Online
- October 24, 2017, “Pyongyang pauses testing,” Shea Cotton in DefenseOne
- October 19, 2017, “North Korea’s target island focus of rogue nation’s military fury,” Shea Cotton in News.Com.Au
- October 18, 2017, “Let’s Walk This Through: If North Korea Launches An ICBM, Then…,” Joshua Pollack for Defense One
- October 16, 2017, “North Korean Diplomats Accused of Smuggling Ivory and Rhino Horn,” Andrea Berger in National Geographic
- October 6, 2017, “The first casualty of North Korean nuclear tests? The country’s environment“, Jeffrey Lewis in LA Times
- October 5, 2017, “Wall Street Journal Video Spotlights CNS “Decoders”,” Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler in The Wall Street Journal
- October 3, 2017, “Donald Trump Threatened North Korea After Completely Imaginary Negotiations,” Jeffrey Lewis for Foreign Policy
- October 3, 2017, “How North Korea Uses Front Companies to Help Evade Sanctions,” Andrea Berger in Frontline
- October 3, 2017, “The past 72 hours in rising tensions between the US and North Korea, explained,” Jeffrey Lewis in VOX
- October 2, 2017, “A Nuclear Deal With North Korea May Be Tillerson’s Mission Impossible,” Melissa Hanham in The New York Times
- October 1, 2017, “A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer,” Andrea Berger in the Washington Post
- September 29, 2017, “Trump wants to cancel the Iran deal. His administration doesn’t seem to know what it does.,” Jeffrey Lewis in VOX
- September 29, 2017, “How Experts Comb Satellite Images for Clues on North Korea’s Nuclear Tests,” Melissa Hanham and Dave Schmerler in IEEE Spectrum
- September 28, 2017, “If North Korea Fires an ICBM, the US Might Have to Shoot It Down Over Russia,” Joshua Pollack in Defense One
- September 27, 2017, “Remote Textile Plant May Secretly Fuel North Korea’s Weapons,”Jeffrey Lewis in The New York Times
- September 26, 2017, “Advances in North Korea’s Missile Program and What Comes Next,” Melissa Hanham and Seiyeon Ji for Arms Control Today
- September 25, 2017, “Experts on North Korea’s latest threat: “This is how war by miscalculation starts”,” Jeffrey Lewis in VOX
- September 22, 2017, “Trump Should Leave the Madman Routine to Kim Jong Un,” Andrea Berger in The Washington Post
- September 22, 2017, “What You Need To Know About North Korea’s Threat To Detonate An H-Bomb In The Pacific,” Melissa Hanham in Huffington Post
- September 22, 2017, “A North Korea nuclear test over the Pacific? Logical, terrifying,” Melissa Hanham and Joshua Pollack in Reuters
- September 21, 2017, “Mapped: North Korea’s Diplomatic Missions Abroad,” Andrea Berger in Foreign Policy
- September 21, 2017, “There is No Trump Doctrine, Only Contradictions and Bluster,” Melissa Hanham in the New Yorker
- September 20, 2017, “Trump’s “Rocket Man” speech put U.S. closer to nuclear zero hour,” Melissa Hanham in VICE
- September 20, 2017, “Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea. I asked 8 experts how worrisome that is,” Jeffrey Lewis and Melissa Hanham in VOX.
- September 19, 2017, “President Trump’s Bombastic Rhetoric Will Do Nothing to De-Nuclearize North Korea,” Joshua Pollack for New York Daily News
- September 19, 2017, “Kim Jong Trump,” Joshua Pollack in Power Problems
- September 18, 2017, “Attack On North Korea Could Spare Allies, Secretary Mattis Says. Analysts Aren’t So Sure,” Melissa Hanham in Huffington Post
- September 16, 2017, “We Investigated the Mysterious Death of North Korea’s Youtube Channels,” Joshua Pollack in VICE
- September 14, 2017, “North Korea sends another missile over Japan, putting more heat on China,” Joshua Pollack in Quartz
- September 14, 2017, “North Korea launches missile from its capital after threat to send Japan ‘into the sea’,” Jeffrey Lewis in New York Daily News
- September 14, 2017, “YouTube Pulls North Korean State TV Videos,” Joshua Pollack and Shea Cotton in Wall Street Journal
- September 14, 2017, “North Korea’s latest nuclear test was so powerful that it reshaped the mountain above it,” Melissa Hanham in Washington Post
- September 14, 2017, “Youtube has shut down more North Korean channels and researchers are livid,” Joshua Pollack in Washington Post
- September 13, 2017, “Trump’s case against the Iran nuclear deal has very little to do with nuclear weapons,” Jeffrey Lewis in VOX
- September 11, 2017, “North Korea: US sanctions resolution watered down before UN vote,”Andrea Berger in The Guardian
- September 11, 2017, “UN votes on new North Korea sanctions, but skips oil ban and asset freeze,” Andrea Berger in The Denver Post
- September 11, 2017, “Four Corners investigation reveals North Korea’s secret global business network,” Andrea Berger in news.com.au
- September 10, 2017, “What China wants on North Korea,” Joshua Pollack in Quartz
- September 8, 2017, “YouTube shuts down North Korean propaganda channels,” Jeffrey Lewis in The Guardian
- September 8, 2017, “The case for letting North Korea keep its nukes,” Jeffrey Lewis in VOX
- September 7, 2017, “Bad News, World: China Can’t Solve the North Korea Problem,” Jeffrey Lewis in The New York Times
- September 6, 2017, “How North Korea’s Nuclear Tests Could Get Even More Terrifying,” Jeffrey Lewis in NPR
- September 7, 2017, “North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Program: How We Got Here,” Shea Cotton and Dave Schmerler for Forbes
- September 5, 2017, “The Options That Have Been Tried on North Korea So Far,” Andrea Berger in The Atlantic
- September 4, 2017, “North Korea’s nuclear bomb: Can we work out its power?” Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress for BBC
- September 4, 2017, “Mattis: U.S. would deliver ‘massive military response’,” Joshua Pollack for The Boston Herald
- September 3, 2017, “North Korea just tested its most powerful nuclear bomb yet,” Jeffrey Lewis for VOX
- September 3, 2017, “North Korea says it can make new bomb in volume,” Melissa Hanham in CNN
- September 3, 2017, “North Korea shaken by strong tremors in likely nuclear test,” Jeffrey Lewis in CNBC
- September 3, 2017, “North Korea’s Nuke Test Reveals Terrifying Capabilities,” Jeffrey Lewis in Wired
- September 2, 2017, “North Korea Says It Has Developed Advanced Hydrogen Bomb,” Melissa Hanham in the Wall Street Journal
- August 30, 2017, “Japan Can Repel A North Korean Missile Better Than The U.S. Or South Korea,” Joshua Pollack in Forbes
- August 29, 2017, “Why it seems like North Korea is launching missiles all the time now” Shea Cotton in The Washington Post
- August 26, 2017, “North Korea launches three missiles into sea, heightening tensions” Melissa Hanham in The Washington Post
- August 24, 2017, “Egypt may be the newest front in Trump’s battle with North Korea,” Andrea Berger in Washington Post
- August 23, 2017, “This Missile Could Reach California. But Can North Korea Use It With a Nuclear Weapon?” Josh Pollack, Jeffrey Lewis, and Dave Schmerler in the New York Times
- August 23, 2017, “New North Korea photos reveal hidden details of missile program” Dave Schmerler in CNN
- August 18, 2017, “Five myths about missiles” Josh Pollack and Catherine Dill for the Washington Post
- August 11, 2017, “Are we on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea? Probably not.,” Catherine Dill for the Washington Post
- August 11, 2017, “U.S.-North Korea Standoff: Miscommunication Is Biggest Threat,” Andrea Berger in NBC News
- August 10, 2017, “North Korea details Guam strike plan and calls Trump ‘bereft of reason’,” Joshua Pollack for The Guardian
- August 10, 2017, “If Trump wants a nuclear attack against North Korea, his military advisers have few other options,” Jeffrey Lewis in The Washington Post
- August 10, 2017, “What Can North Korea Reach With Its Missiles?,” Dave Schmerler in The New York Times
- August 10, 2017, “How three recent launches signaled new leaps in North Korea’s missile capabilities,” Catherine Dill for The Washington Post
- August 9, 2017, “East Asia Is Seriously Freaked Out About Trump And North Korea” Melissa Hanham in Buzzfeed News
- August 8, 2017, “What War Between North Korea and the U.S. Might Look Like,” Jeffrey Lewis in Bloomberg
Experts
Jeffrey Lewis
Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Program
Monterey, CA ⋅ 831.647.6616 ⋅ [email protected] ⋅ @ArmsControlWonk
Melissa Hanham
Senior Research Associate, East Asia Nonproliferation Program
Monterey, CA ⋅ 831.647.6507 ⋅ [email protected] ⋅ @mhanham
Laura Rockwood
Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament & Non-Proliferation
Vienna, Austria ⋅ +43 (1) 236-948-201 ⋅ [email protected]
Joshua Pollack
Editor, Nonproliferation Review ⋅ Senior Research Associate
Washington, DC ⋅ 202.842.3100 ⋅ [email protected]
Catherine Dill
Senior Research Associate
Washington, DC ⋅ 202.842.3100 x309 ⋅ [email protected] ⋅ @atomic_pickles
Andrea Berger
Senior Research Associate ⋅ Senior Program Manager
London, England ⋅ [email protected]
David Schmerler
Research Associate
Monterey, CA ⋅ 831.647.4619 ⋅ [email protected]
