Sunday, September 3, 2017

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 3, 2017



Philip Williams, ABC News Online: North Korea: What can actually be done to deal with a nuclear Pyongyang? (Analysis)

From the first tweak of the seismograph it was clear this was no ordinary tremor — it signalled the most powerful bomb of all.

The North Korean TV newsreader announced with a flourish this was the state's first hydrogen bomb. If that now means Pyongyang has the weapon and the delivery system that could wipe out a Los Angeles, a San Francisco or a Sydney in a flash, then the world is now a different place.

Nuclear weapons are supposed to be a deterrent — make yourself so dangerous no-one will ever dare challenge you.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 3, 2017

North Korea declares H-bomb test ‘a perfect success’ -- Asia Times/AFP

How China Can Really Help on North Korea -- Michael Auslin, National Interest


North Korea: Doesn’t Kim Jong Un understand ‘suicidal’? -- Grant Newsham, Asia Times

How Kim rules: What the North Korean leader's unexpected directions for his country mean for the US -- Michael Holtz, CSM

It's Time to Get Tough on China and Russia about North Korea -- Anthony Ruggiero, National Interest

North Korea Says It Successfully Tested a Hydrogen Bomb—Is It Time to Nuke Kim's Economy? -- Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast

America's Strategic Partnership with India Is about More than Afghanistan -- Walter Lohman, National Interest

Beginning of end of Syria war could be closer than ever with IS collapse -- Song Lifang, Xinhuanet

Arabs, Kurds unite against IS, but post-victory? ‘God knows’ -- Sarah El Deeb, AP

Obama’s Myanmar legacy in trouble and it’s not Trump’s fault -- Matthew Pennington, AP

How Iraq War Hawks Can Help Stop Trump from Going to War with Iran -- Jon Finer, Rob Malley, and Jeff Prescott, New Yorker

Crunch Time in Paris -- Holger Schmieding, RCW

Scandal Upstages Guatemala's Leader -- Mac Margolis, Bloomberg

A Terror Group in its Death Throes? -- Christoph Reuter, DW

Are Think Tanks Doomed? -- Daniel W. Dezner, Politico

2 comments:

Jac said...

When I hear that the only solution is talking and negotiating with NK, I cannot believe anybody can tell something like that forgetting we did it during 25 years with this marvelous result......Well, pushing the can on the road is a comfortable position as long as there is no catastrophe.
We are doing war with bacteria for protecting us, well NK is a bacteria too.

Unknown said...

Well, Mika has a very decent degree.

I believe her before I believe that polyscience major and political hack Albright.