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SOUTH KOREA JAPAN “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.” -- President Trump, Aug. 8, 2017 North Korea: Strategies To Resolve The Nuclear Threat Table of Contents

Time to turn up economic pressures on North Korea ...... 3 ‘Red-teaming’ the diplomatic option in Korea ...... 14 Sen. Cory Gardner Gary Anderson Direct diplomacy needed to de-escalate North Korean threat ...... 3 Aiding refugees brings freedom closer for North Korea ...... 15 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Lindsay Lloyd Capitalize on U .S . economy — and a ramped-up missile defense ...... 4 Parliamentarians’ Association formed to focus on peace ...... 16 Rep. Trent Franks Dr. Thomas G. Walsh R Time to use U .S ’s. ‘entire toolbox’ ...... 4 Who is the real target of North Korea’s nuclear weapons? ...... 17 Rep. Ted Yoho Michael Breen N . Korean missile test response to Trump talk ...... 4 ROK’s President Moon: A stellar first 100 days ...... 18 Guy Taylor Dr. Alexandre Y. Mansourov U .N . sanctions: Defunding DPRK’s nuke, missile programs ...... 6 Government warns North Korean cyber attacks continue ...... 19 TMENT Ambassador Nikki Haley Bill Gertz AR ‘A clear message’ to North Korea ...... 6 Making the best of a bad nuclear hand ...... 20 Y D EP

C U.S. Mission to the United Nations David A. Keene A Trump hails U .N ’s. vote to further sanction N . Korea ...... 7 The other North Korean threat ...... 21 VOC Guy Taylor William R. Graham and Peter Vincent Pry ‘We will remain vigilant’ ...... 8 In search of a grand U .S . strategy ...... 22 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Clifford D. May

TON TIME S AD TON James Mattis, Rex Tillerson pledge closer military bond with ‘Juche’ or consequences ...... 22 Japan in face of North Korean threat ...... 8 Jed Babbin

ASH IN G Carlo Munoz Toward a more muscular missile defense ...... 23 Only a negotiated settlement will bring peace to the Korean Peninsula ...... 9 Ed Feulner

Y T H E W Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani Reliving the nuclear worry ...... 24 An Open Letter to Kim Jong-un and the people of North Korea ...... 10 Thomas V. DiBacco

AR E D B Rev. William (Bill) Owens Countering bombast from North Korea...... 25 Without public diplomacy, U .S .-North Korean policy will fail ...... 12 Donald Lambro T P R EP Dr. John Lenczowski The South Pacific’s strategic role ...... 25 TON TIME S TON Three Prayers for the Sake of North Korea ...... 13 Erik M. Jacobs Dr. William Ames Curtright, Nancy Schulze and Joy Lamb

ASH IN G A superstar in Donald Trump’s Cabinet ...... 26 The human rights holocaust of North Korea ...... 14 Suzanne Fields A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W Dr. Matthew Daniels

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test over Japan further escalate the situ- resolve to counter his aggression with diplomatic options to achieve this goal. ation in North Korea, or is it more of the the strongest military the world has ever The Trump administration can show same from them? known. I echo Defense Secretary Mattis’ the world that the United States will no Sen. Gardner: North Korea contin- sentiment that we are ready to defend longer lead from behind, but instead ues to defy international sanctions and ourselves if North Korea strikes any U.S. find a comprehensive solution the global refuses to stop their belligerent missile territory, including Guam. community supports. tests that pose a serious threat to the U.S. and our allies. Their latest provoca- Q: What is your assessment of the Q: In your communication with the cur- By Sen. Cory Gardner tive launch, where a missile flew over Trump administration’s current poli- rent administration, what changes to cur- The following Q&A was prepared with Japan, is completely unacceptable and cies? Are they different than the previous rent policy or strategy are you advocating Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, we must join with our allies in the region administration? for as the situation becomes more serious and Washington Times Special Sections to show Pyongyang we will not tolerate A: The Obama administration’s failed on the Korean Peninsula? Manager Cheryl Wetzstein for this section, this behavior. North Korea has proven policy of “strategic patience” toward A: North Korea is propped up by re- which is developed by The Washington they have no intentions of backing down. Pyongyang contributed to the rapid gimes like China and Russia, and we have Times Advocacy Department. Every new step that North Korea takes development of North Korea’s arsenal to apply more pressure to Kim Jong-un As Chairman of the Senate Foreign in provoking the United States and our of mass destruction. The acceleration of and his rogue regime. I have called on the Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and allies proves more needs to be done to its nuclear and ballistic missile program global community to impose a complete the Pacific, Sen. Cory Gardner has been stop their dangerous behavior. The mis- represents a grave threat to global peace economic embargo against the heinous the leader in the Senate in deterring North sile launch over Japan was reckless and and stability — and a direct threat to the regime in Pyongyang. Every nation of Korea’s heinous regime. Sen. Gardner is intended to drive conflict. China and American homeland in the immediate conscience should cut off all finance and authored the North Korea Sanctions Policy Russia must see this as a step toward ag- future. trade with North Korea, with a few lim- and Enhancement Act, which was signed gression, and finally join the international I’m encouraged the Trump admin- ited humanitarian exceptions, until such into law by President Barack Obama in community to pressure Kim Jong-un into istration has recognized the policy of time that Pyongyang is willing to meet its February 2016. The legislation marked the peaceful denuclearization. strategic patience was a strategic failure international commitments to peacefully first time Congress imposed stand-alone and is taking a harder line toward North denuclearize. The U.N. Security Council mandatory sanctions on North Korea. Q: North Korea has threatened to strike Korea. The administration has taken should immediately endorse such an Earlier this summer, Sen. Gardner Guam. Does the fact that they are a U.S. some positive steps in trying to rein in embargo in a new resolution and make it A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT introduced bipartisan legislation to ban territory change how we would respond to North Korea’s nuclear program. They’ve binding on all nations. any entity that does business with North any threats by the North Korean regime to accomplished what previous administra- We must give every entity doing busi- Korea or its enablers from using the United strike Guam? tions were unable to do in getting nations ness with Pyongyang a choice — you ei- States’ financial system, and impose U.S. A: As we continue to use economic that rarely see eye to eye on anything to ther do business with this outlaw regime sanctions on all those participating in and diplomatic pressure to achieve come together at the United Nations to or the world’s economic superpower. I North Korean labor trafficking abuses. Sen. peaceful denuclearization, we must also put in place needed sanctions against have introduced legislation that would Gardner has applauded recent steps taken show Kim Jong-un that all options are North Korea. The United States can ban any entity that does business with by the Trump administration to ramp up on the table if he decides to attack the only negotiate with North Korea from a North Korea or its enablers from using pressure on North Korea, including the United States or our allies. A peace- position of strength and only if Pyong- the United States financial system, and unprecedented step of sanctioning certain ful resolution is the best outcome, but yang first abides by the denuclearization I will keep pushing for stronger actions Chinese and Russian and other financial we must be ready to defend ourselves commitments it has previously made, that are part of our efforts to stop a war institutions and individuals for doing busi- militarily if we have to. Kim Jong-un must but subsequently chose to unilaterally breaking out on the Korean Peninsula. ness with North Korea. know that should economic and diplo- discard. Peaceful denuclearization of the matic measures fail, the United States Korean Peninsula must be our ultimate Q : Will North Korea’s Aug. 28 missile and our allies will have the capability and objective, and it is our duty to try all

Direct diplomacy needed to de-escalate THE WASHINGTON TIMES North Korean threat

Hawaii, Alaska and the mainland United credible in finding a diplomatic solution their only deterrent against regime change. States. For the past 15 years, our leaders with North Korea if we weren’t currently Serious diplomacy on the Korean Pen- have let the people of Hawaii and our waging a regime change war in Syria and insula will require an end to our regime |

country down, allowing the situation in contemplating a regime change war in Iran. change war in Syria and a public statement Thursday • A ugus North Korea to worsen to this point of The North Korean regime witnessed the that the U.S. will not engage in regime crisis where we are left with nothing but regime change wars the U.S. led in Libya change wars and nation-building over- bad options. We must ensure we are able and Iraq and what we’re now doing in Syria, seas, including in Iran and North Korea. By Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to defend against North Korea’s threat with and fear they will become like Gadhafi We should focus our limited resources on cutting-edge missile defense technologies, who, after giving up his nuclear weapons rebuilding our own country and seriously This statement was made on July 5, 2017, in but this is not enough. We must pursue program, was deposed by the United States. commit ourselves to de-escalating this

response to a North Korean intercontinental serious diplomatic efforts to de-escalate As long as the U.S. is waging regime dangerous stand-off with North Korea and t 31 • 2017 ballistic missile test that was conducted on and ultimately denuclearize North Korea. change wars, we are far less likely to reach negotiate a peaceful diplomatic solution. July 4, America’s Independence Day holiday. However, U.S. leaders need to understand a diplomatic solution in North Korea be- North Korea’s latest successful inter- that Kim Jong-un maintains a tight grip cause they have no reason to believe our Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, is continental ballistic missile test further on North Korea’s nuclear weapons as promises. In fact, we are far more likely to a member of the House Armed Services demonstrates the extremely dangerous and a deterrent against regime change. The see nuclear proliferation by countries like Committee and House Foreign Affairs growing threat that North Korea poses to Trump administration would be far more North Korea who see nuclear weapons as Committee. 3 Capitalize on U.S. economy — and a ramped-up missile defense

and negotiations, then do nothing. between trading with America and our Ground-Based Interceptor inven- As a result of taking the path of least North Korea. Our economy is some tory to 100. These GBIs are currently resistance, we now find ourselves in one thousand times the size of North the first and last line of defense against an extremely untenable situation: a Korea’s, and this is an asymmetric any nuclear missile attack against the nuclear-armed North Korea rapidly advantage we must capitalize upon American Homeland. Thus, ramping up increasing their nuclear technology immediately. our missile defense capability, crushing and their delivery capabilities, even Simultaneously, we must ratchet up sanctions, along with absolute clarity as as their conventional military assets our missile defense capability and tech- to our response to any attack against our ensure that any military action could nology at flank speed. citizens will give the Trump administra- very easily cause apocalyptic death and The House-passed NDAA includes tion maximum ability to exert diplomatic By Rep. Trent Franks destruction. The Kim Dynasty is able an amendment I introduced to begin the pressure on China and North Korea. he current situation on the to flatten Seoul, threatening our 28,000 development of a space-based missile It is imperative that we do what is Korean Peninsula is the troops and their families, in addition defense layer; it passed with bipartisan necessary to dismantle North Korea’s result of both Bill Clinton to millions of South Korean civilians. support and it is my hope the Senate ac- nuclear capability. This dangerous and and Barack Obama making It is vital that we make it crystal clear, cedes to the House-passed language. A escalating situation cannot be allowed to deals with Pyongyang that as President Donald Trump has done space-based missile defense layer would continue on its present path under any gave North Korea significant thus far, that any missile attack upon provide us with the ultimate high ground circumstances. ransom money but failed to secure American civilians will be met with a and ensure we could shoot down an Tthe hostage in either case. Their focus devastating response from the United enemy missile as it ascends — when it Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican, was on a “deal” rather than a solution. States of America. It is further vital that is most vulnerable. This “boost-phase serves on the House Armed Services and Their foreign policy playbook was to we make it clear to the world, including defense” is a capability we currently do Judiciary Committees. condemn the tests, talk about sanctions China, that Nations must now choose not have. Furthermore, we must increase Time to use U.S.’s ‘entire toolbox’ China. Meanwhile, North Korea has used no closer to a denuclearized peninsula. A The administration must also start negotiations to extract wealth without more forward leaning North Korea policy using its secondary sanctions authority

TMENT ever slowing weapons development. Since will require more effort and resolve, as we against the Chinese entities that have

AR 1995, we have provided $1.3 billion in have seen passivity fail time and again. It allowed for North Korea’s continued economic and humanitarian assistance to takes time. It takes time for these threats weapons development. China accounts

Y D EP North Korea, and weapons development — and take the threat seriously and use for 90 percent of North Korea’s economic C A has only accelerated. As Secretary Tiller- our entire toolbox ... activity. The failed policies of the past

VOC son stated during his trip to the region last We have to ensure continued robust assumed that if the United States did not week, this is 20 years of failed approaches. support for injecting outside information anger China, China would help promote The Obama administration’s strategic into North Korea to encourage defection de-nuclearization. It is time to stop pre- patience was a low-effort strategy, taking and expose Kim’s propaganda. Thae Yong- tending that China’s North Korea policy is some measures to isolate North Korea, Ho, the highest ranking North Korean motivated by anything else than extreme

TON TIME S AD TON and then simply waiting for the Kim Jong defector in decades, recently said this self-interest of China. China has benefited By Rep. Ted Yoho Un regime to wake up and give away was the best way to force change in North from undermining sanctions and tolerat- These excerpted remarks were made his nuclear weapons. Certainly, there is Korea. This committee has also done ing North Korea’s nuclear belligerence. ASH IN G at a March 21, 2017 hearing on “Pressuring plenty of blame to go around, if we are important work in increasing financial North Korea’s missiles are not aimed at North Korea: Evaluating Options,” held by looking at George Bush taking North pressure on the regime, and I look forward China, and the growing security challenge

Y T H E W the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Korea off the State Sponsors of Terrorism to continuing our work on the sanctions is an excellent distraction from China’s on Asia and the Pacific. record, or the Clinton administration al- this Congress. own illicit activities. For 20 years, we have responded to lowing North Korea to even start a nuclear We should also re-list North Korea as AR E D B every North Korean provocation with program — although it was deemed for a State Sponsor of Terrorism in light of Rep. Ted Yoho, Florida Republican, is either isolation or inducements to negoti- peaceful purposes, we saw they strayed its long history of horrific crimes, most Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs

T P R EP ate. Our efforts to isolate Pyongyang have from that. recently, the assassination of Kim Jong Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

TON TIME S TON either been incomplete or hamstrung by This ineffective approach has gotten us Nam with the VX nerve agent in Malaysia. ASH IN G A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W N. Korean missile test response to Trump talk

| Kim holds back from ‘fire and fury’ red line

By Guy Taylor Pyongyang launched a missile over Harvey, insisted once again in a statement In a sign that the North was not in- t 31 • 2017 The Washington Times Japan on Tuesday, just a week after Mr. Tuesday that all options remain on the timidated by the tougher line Mr. Trump Trump claimed that his threats to rain “fire table to deal with the North, implicitly promised, North Korea’s official news President Trump has brought a new and fury” on Pyongyang if it continued to including military force. But some say the agency revealed Tuesday evening U.S. time toughness to U.S. rhetoric toward North threaten the U.S. and its East Asian allies president is struggling to project a coher- that Mr. Kim was present as the country Korea, but the Kim Jong-un regime in had worked to get Mr. Kim “to respect ent strategy at a moment when U.S. allies for the first time fired a ballistic missile Pyongyang showed anew this week that us.” Analysts say the latest test calls that are concerned about the mixed messaging designed to carry a nuclear payload over

Thursday • A ugus Thursday it still has the power to decide when and assertion into serious question. and wary that the administration may lack Japanese territory. where to escalate the crisis in the region Mr. Trump, who spent the day inspect- the resources and personnel necessary to 4 over its nuclear programs and missile tests. ing storm damage in Texas from Hurricane deal with Pyongyang. » see FIRE | C5 according to the Yon- FIRE hap News Agency in RUSSIA From page C4 Seoul. Approximate The missile’s flight NORTH landing area set off alarms across KOREA Cape About The report said Mr. Kim praised the northern Japan, and Erimo launch, called for more missile tests and Prime Minister Shinzo 1,677 said the exercise was a “meaningful pre- Abe denounced North miles lude” to containing Guam, a critical Pen- Korea’s latest missile JAPAN tagon hub for the entire region. test as “an unprece- CHINA SOUTH North Korea on Analysts said Mr. Kim precisely cali- dented, grave and seri- KOREA Tokyo Tuesday fired a brated the missile firing not to cross a U.S. ous threat.” midrange ballistic red line — not targeting a U.S. base or pos- Officials in Tokyo missile designed to session such as Guam — while targeting a say the missile flew carry a nuclear critical U.S. ally in Japan. over Japan’s northern- payload over Japan. North Korea employed the same Hwa- most Hokkaido island Pacific Ocean The distance and type song-12 intermediate-range missile that it for two minutes before of missile tested has said could target Guam and conducted breaking into three seg- seemed designed to the launch while much of official Washing- ments and plunging show that North Korea ton was transfixed by the crisis in Texas. into the Pacific about can back up a threat But even while being dealt few good 730 miles east of the About to target the U.S. military options, Washington is suffering Japanese coastline. territory of Guam. DETAIL 2,100 from a few self-inflicted wounds as well. The Center for Stra- miles Seven months into Mr. Trump’s tenure, tegic and International AREA the White House still hasn’t filled key Pen- Studies in Washington tagon and State Department posts for Asia said it was the first that analysts say are essential to reassuring test since 1998 of “a allies including South Korea and Japan, and developmental North GUAM adversaries such as China, that Washington Korean ballistic mis- U.S. territory can formulate and carry out a strategy to sile over Japanese ter- Sources: BBC; Associated Press; Tribune News Service THE WASHINGTON TIMES contain the Kim regime. ritory” but that North The lack of a Trump-appointed assistant Korean satellite launch secretary of state for East Asian affairs or attempts in 2009, 2012 and 2016 also sent proclaimed the “era of strategic patience” Security Council sanctions, which seek to an assistant secretary of defense for Asian projectiles across Japanese airspace. with North Korea was over. ban North Korea from exporting coal, iron, A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT and Pacific security affairs — let alone a U.S. U.S. analysts called it a brazen provoca- Mr. Trump promised “fire and fury like lead and seafood worth about a third of its ambassador to South Korea — is limiting the tion by Mr. Kim just weeks after the U.N. the world has never seen” in the wake of total income from trade. administration’s ability to implement policy, Security Council unanimously imposed reports that the Kim regime had succeeded China’s customs agency has said it will national security sources say. the harshest economic sanctions to date in making a nuclear weapon small enough begin enforcing the sanctions next week. “There are acting people in these posi- against Pyongyang. to fit inside one of its ballistic missiles. But Beijing has been hesitant to push too tions, but they don’t have the same influ- At the United Nations on Tuesday, at He warned later that the U.S. military was hard against the Kim regime in neighbor- ence or perceived power as a presidential the behest of Japan among other nations, “locked and loaded” to respond to any North ing North Korea, claiming it fears a massive nominee,” said Bruce Klingner, a Northeast the Security Council condemned North Korean missile firing at Guam. refugee crisis if the regime suddenly falls. Asia scholar at the Heritage Foundation who Korea’s “outrageous” launch and repeated The president subsequently tempered A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokes- once ran the CIA’s Korea branch. earlier demands for an end to Pyongyang’s the threat, suggesting that Washington re- woman told reporters on Tuesday that “Sometimes allies will tell me they call missile and nuclear programs. mained open to dialogue with Pyongyang. tensions have reached a “tipping point the State Department and are simply re- The Security Council has not acted on Just last week, he told supporters at a rally approaching a crisis” and urged all sides to ferred to the White House because it seems North Korea’s request last week for a debate in Phoenix that there were signs that the avoid provocations and to see “there is an the State Department is out of the loop,” Mr. on the U.S.-South Korean military drills. North had received the message. opportunity” for peace talks to occur. Klingner said in an interview Tuesday. The U.S. military has roughly 30,000 “I respect the fact that he is starting to Some argue that Pyongyang is taking “The personnel issue is real,” said Mi- personnel stationed in South Korea and respect us,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Kim at the advantage of the stalemate between the chael Mazza, a specialist on East Asia at the some 50,000 in Japan, and Mr. Trump spoke time. “Maybe — probably not, but maybe — U.S. and China, believing its string of mis- American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Trump’s by phone with Mr. Abe on Tuesday morning something positive can come about.” sile tests this year won’t result in anything National Security Council just doesn’t “have for about 40 minutes. Mr. Klingner said Tuesday that Mr. more than heated rhetoric from Washington THE WASHINGTON TIMES the bodies to throw at the problem,” Mr. “President Trump and Prime Minister Trump’s comments at the Phoenix rally and its allies. Mazza said, which means “you don’t have Abe committed to increasing pressure on “were premature and a bit naive.” But the regime could also be legitimately the regional expertise that you want to have North Korea, and doing their utmost to The shifting messages have created the concerned that the Trump administration at this point in time.” convince the international community to perception that “what Trump tweets or says will lose patience. do the same,” according to a readout of the may only be bluster,” he said. Dennis P. Halpin, a visiting scholar with Allies in the lead call released by the White House. Some Democrats pounced on the op- the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins Japan and South Korea appeared to be In a separate statement, Mr. Trump said portunity to criticize Mr. Trump’s approach University’s School of Advanced Interna- taking the lead Tuesday in responding to “all options are on the table.” on Tuesday. tional Studies in Washington, said Mr. Kim | the missile test. “The world has received North Korea’s “As with most of President Trump’s has “shrewdly calculated the best means for Thursday • A ugus Washington and Seoul were engaged latest message loud and clear: This regime foreign policy, there is no coherent North preserving his family dynasty.” in annual joint military exercises — drills has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, Korea strategy — just empty statements He can be expected to “carefully cali- that North Korea has long criticized as a for all members of the United Nations and wild, counterproductive tweets,” said brate his series of provocations as not rehearsal for an invasion. But it was the and for minimum standards of acceptable Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, the to trigger a wider conflict which would South Korean air force that responded by international behavior,” the president said. ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign likely spell the end of his regime,” Mr. scrambling fighter jets to carry out a live-fire “Threatening and destabilizing actions only Relations Committee. “We need a clear Halpin wrote in a commentary in the The

drill designed to show its ability to target increase the North Korean regime’s isola- strategy and plan of action.” American Thinker. t 31 • 2017 the Kim regime if necessary. tion in the region and among all nations of Mr. Cardin suggested that more pressure This news article, which includes Four South Korean F-15K fighters the world.” must be put on China and Russia — Pyong- contributions from Carlo Muñoz, David pounded a simulated target in the hills yang’s main allies and trading partners Sherfinski and Dave Boyer, as well as wire south of the Demilitarized Zone with eight Rhetorical war — to exert influence over the regime in service reports, first published online on MK-84 bombs — roughly 1-ton bombs The rhetorical war escalated sharply in Pyongyang. Aug. 29, 2017. used for destroying underground bunkers, recent weeks after the Trump administration Both signed on to the early-August U.N. 5 U.N. sanctions: Defunding DPRK’s nuke, missile programs

quite costly to the regime. remind the Security Council that while The United States is taking — and This resolution is the single largest this resolution is a significant step for- will continue to take — prudent defen- economic sanctions package ever lev- ward, it is not nearly enough. sive measures to protect ourselves and eled against the North Korean regime. The threat of an outlaw, nuclearized our allies. Our annual joint military The price the North Korean leadership North Korean dictatorship remains. The exercises, for instance, are transparent will pay for its continued nuclear and unimaginable living conditions of so and defense-oriented. They have been missile development will be the loss many of the North Korean people are carried out regularly and openly for of one-third of its exports and hard unchanged. nearly 40 years. They will continue. currency. The North Korean regime continues Our goal remains a stable Korean This is the most stringent set to show that widespread violations of peninsula, at peace, without nuclear of sanctions on any country in a human rights go hand in hand with weapons. We want only security and generation. threats to international peace and prosperity for all nations — including These sanctions will cut deep, and security. North Korea. in doing so, will give the North Korean I thank each and every one of my Until then, this resolution and prior leadership a taste of the deprivation colleagues who worked so hard to ones will be implemented to the fullest they have chosen to inflict on the North bring this resolution to a vote. I have to maximize pressure on North Korea By Ambassador Nikki Haley Korean people. previously pointed out that China has a to change its ways. Nuclear and ballistic missile devel- critical role to play on matters related Today is a good day at the United xactly one month ago, I came opment is expensive. The revenues the to North Korea. I want to personally Nations. We will need many more such before members of the Security North Korean government receives are thank the Chinese delegation for the days in order to peacefully resolve the Council and declared it was a not going towards feeding its people. important contributions they made to crisis that has been created by North dark day for the world because Instead, the North Korean regime is this resolution. Korea’s dangerous and illegal actions. of the dangerous and irrespon- literally starving its people and enslav- While the Security Council has done As I’ve said before, time is short. But sible actions of North Korea. ing them in mines and factories in order good work, the members of the Security today we have taken one step in the Almost one week ago, I said the days of to fund these illegal nuclear programs. Council — and all U.N. Member States right direction. Etalking were over and it was time to act. Even as famine looms on the hori- — must do more to increase the pres- Thank you, again, to my colleagues Today, the full Security Council has zon, even as the regime continues to sure on North Korea. and their teams for their action and sup- come together to put the North Korean ask for international assistance to cope We must work together to fully port towards sending a strong message dictator on notice. And this time, the with devastating floods and a possible implement the sanctions we imposed to the North Korean regime. Council has matched its words and drought later this year, their displays of today and those imposed in past actions. aggression take precedence over their resolutions. These remarks, “Explanation of Vote at

TMENT The resolution we’ve passed is a own people. The step we take together today is the Adoption of UN Security Council

AR strong, united step toward holding North Even as we respond to the North an important one. But we should not Resolution 2371 Strengthening Sanc- Korea accountable for its behavior. Korean nuclear threat, the United fool ourselves into thinking we have tions on North Korea,” were delivered

Y D EP Today, the Security Council increased States will continue to stand up for the solved the problem. Not even close. The at the U.N. by Ambassador Nikki Haley, C A the penalty of North Korea’s ballistic human dignity and rights of the North North Korean threat has not left us. It is the U.S. Permanent Representative to

VOC missile activity to a whole new level. Korean people. rapidly growing more dangerous. We’ve the United Nations, on August 5, 2017. North Korea’s irresponsible and It is the continued suffering of seen two ICBMs fired in just the last careless acts have just proved to be the North Korean people that should month. Further action is required. TON TIME S AD TON

ASH IN G ‘A clear message’ to North Korea

Y T H E W By United States Mission exports, imposing a total ban on all ballistic missile program, and to abandon acts as North Korea’s primary foreign ex- to the United Nations exports of coal (North Korea’s largest all other WMD programs. change bank, while protecting diplomatic, source of external revenue), iron, iron Imposes several full sectoral bans consular, and humanitarian activities. AR E D B The following is a fact sheet prepared ore, lead, lead ore and seafood. Banning on exports North Korea uses to fund its Prohibiting all new joint ventures by the United States Mission to the United these exports will prevent North Korea nuclear and ballistic missile programs, or cooperative commercial entities

T P R EP Nations about the sanctions recently ad- from earning over a $1 billion per year of namely: between North Korea and other nations,

TON TIME S TON opted on North Korea. hard currency that would be redirected A ban on its largest export, coal, repre- as well as ban additional investment in Resolution 2371 (2017), adopted unani- to its illicit programs. North Korea earns senting a loss to North Korea of over $401 existing ones. mously by the United Nations Security approximately $3 billion per year from million in revenues per year; Banning countries from allowing in ASH IN G Council on August 5, 2017, strengthens export revenues. Additional sanctions tar- A ban on iron and iron ore exports, additional numbers of North Korean UN sanctions on North Korea in re- get North Korea’s arms smuggling, joint worth roughly $250 million per year; laborers who will earn revenue for the A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| sponse to its two intercontinental ballistic ventures with foreign companies, banks, A ban on seafood exports, worth illicit programs. missile (ICBM) tests conducted on July and other sources of revenue. roughly $300 million in revenue each Requests the Security Council’s North 3, 2017 and July 28, 2017. As such, this year; and Korea Sanctions Committee to identify resolution sends a clear message to North Resolution 2371 (2017) includes the A ban on lead and lead ore exports, additional conventional arms-related and Korea that the Security Council is united following key elements: worth roughly $110 million per year; proliferation-related items to be banned t 31 • 2017 in condemning North Korea’s violations Condemns North Korea July 3 and July Imposes additional restrictions on for transfer to/from North Korea. and demanding North Korea give up its 28 ballistic missile tests in the strongest North Korea’s ability to generate revenue Enables the Security Council’s North prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile terms, and reaffirms North Korea’s obliga- and access the international financial Korea Sanctions Committee to designate programs. tions not to conduct any further nuclear system, by: vessels tied to violations of Security tests or launches that use ballistic missile Adding new sanctions designations Council resolutions and prohibit their Resolution 2371 (2017) includes the technology, to abandon all nuclear weap- against North Korean individuals and international port access.

Thursday • A ugus Thursday strongest sanctions ever imposed in ons and existing nuclear programs in a entities that support the country’s nuclear Takes steps to improve sanctions response to a ballistic missile test. These complete, verifiable and irreversible man- and missile programs, including the state- 6 measures target North Korea’s principal ner, to suspend all activities related to its owned Foreign Trade Bank (FTB), which » see SANCTIONS | C7 Trump hails U.N.’s vote to further sanction N. Korea Resolution came with support from China, Russia

By Guy Taylor criticism at Beijing, saying at one point that The Washington Times Chinese President Xi Jinping had “tried” to help on North Korea and it “has not he Trump administration says it worked out.” has new momentum to expand The administration has also teased the international pressure on North idea of expending Washington’s own uni- Korea following a unanimous lateral North Korea sanctions to target Chi- U.N. Security Council vote to nese companies as punishment for China’s ramp up economic sanctions as ongoing trade with Pyongyang and overall punishment for Pyongyang’s recent long- perceived inaction on North Korea. Trange ballistic missile tests. Some analysts go so far as to claim President Trump hailed a Security Beijing tacitly backs Pyongyang to antago- Council resolution that passed Saturday nize Washington and maintain a strategic [Aug. 5] with cooperation from both Rus- security edge in the region. sia and China, North Korea’s neighbor Mr. Tillerson said nothing publicly about and main trading partner. The president North Korea following his meeting with Mr. tweeted that the development is “the single Wang on Sunday, but did express broad op- largest economic sanctions package ever timism earlier in the day, calling the U.N. Se- on North Korea” and will have a “very big curity Council resolution “a good outcome.” financial impact.” The council voted 15-0 on the new sanc- News of the sanctions, which seek to ban tions, which, if fully implemented, could North Korea from exporting coal, iron, lead deliver a $3 billion blow to revenues Pyong- and seafood worth about a third of its total yang gets from exports to China and a hand- income from trade, came as Secretary of ful of other trading partners. The sanctions State Rex Tillerson arrived over the week- also aim to block countries from giving end at an annual diplomatic gathering in any additional permits to North Korean East Asia, where Chinese officials expressed workers, another source of money for Kim A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT cautious support for the development. Jong-un’s regime in Pyongyang. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who The vote followed the regime’s first held separate meetings Sunday [Aug. 6] successful tests of intercontinental ballistic with Mr. Tillerson and with North Korea’s missiles capable of reaching the U.S. last top diplomat, publicly urged Pyongyang to month. White House press secretary Sarah “maintain calm” and “not violate the U.N.’s Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that Mr. decision or provoke international society’s Trump “appreciates China’s and Russia’s goodwill by conducting missile launching cooperation in securing passage of this or nuclear tests.” resolution.” Mr. Wang’s comments appeared to signal U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley progress in the long-elusive U.S. strategy said the Security Council had succeeded of trying to deepen Chinese cooperation in putting the Kim regime “on notice” and toward more aggressively implementing “what happens next is up to North Korea.” sanctions against North Korea. However, Even prominent critics of Mr. Trump said there were also indications that Beijing the vote was an important step. Former remains wary about taking a lead role in U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul containing Pyongyang. ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH called the vote “a genuine foreign policy “Who has been carrying out the U.N. achievement.” Security Council resolutions concerning administration, which has flirted with the enough pressure on the North Koreans. THE WASHINGTON TIMES North Korea? It is China,” said Mr. Wang alternative idea of backing all-out regime During his initial months in office, Mr. This news article, which is based in in Manila on Sunday. “Who bore the cost? change in Pyongyang, has expressed frus- Trump voiced optimism about China’s part on wire service reports, first It is also China.” tration that the Chinese aren’t putting role, but has more recently leveled veiled published online on Aug. 6, 2017. Mr. Tillerson also met with his South Korean counterpart Sunday and a White House official said South Korean Presi- and a number of expensive ballistic Korean Peninsula and in Northeast dent Moon Jae-in had asked to speak with missile programs and expresses its Asia. Mr. Trump by phone Sunday night. The SANCTIONS deep concern at the grave hardship to Expresses the Council’s determina-

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White House said it would provide details which the people in North Korea are tion to take further significant mea- Thursday • A ugus of their conversation later. subjected; sures if North Korea conducts another The Security Council resolution, enforcement, including by asking Includes sanctions exemptions to nuclear test or ballistic missile launch. drafted by U.S. officials and carefully Interpol to publish Special Notices on make sure these measures do not im- This resolution has two annexes. negotiated with the Chinese, seeks to listed North Koreans for travel ban pede foreign diplomatic activities in These are: increase pressure on Pyongyang to return purposes. North Korea or legitimate humanitarian An annex of 9 North Korean indi- to stalled international negotiations over Provides additional analytical re- assistance. viduals operating abroad as representa-

its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile sources to the UN’s Panel of Experts Reaffirms the Council’s support for tives of designated entities designated t 31 • 2017 programs. to enhance its capacity to monitor the Six Party Talks, calls for their re- for targeted sanctions (asset freeze and U.S. and Chinese officials don’t -ex sanctions enforcement. sumption, reiterates its support for travel ban); actly see eye-to-eye on the prospect of Regrets North Korea’s massive di- commitments made by the Six Par- Another annex of 4 North Korea such negotiations. The perception is that version of its scarce resources toward ties, and reiterates the importance of commercial entities designated for an China wants negotiations to occur more its development of nuclear weapons maintaining peace and stability on the asset freeze. rapidly than Washington, while the Trump 7 ‘We will remain vigilant’

By Secretary of State our mutual commitment to confronting cooperation with other nations, we will denuclearization of North Korea. Rex Tillerson threats to regional peace and security. continue to employ diplomatic and eco- We again call upon all nations to As you might imagine, we spent a nomic pressure to convince North Korea fully enforce the U.N. Security Council ecretary Mattis and I are fair amount of time discussing North to end its illegal nuclear and ballistic resolution imposing additional sanc- grateful for the opportunity Korea. North Korea’s recent interconti- missile program. tions on the regime in North Korea. We today to host Foreign Minis- nental ballistic missile and other missile I think, as was clear by all peace- will remain vigilant against the North ter Kono and Defense Min- launches are unacceptable provocations, seeking nations and the unanimous U.N. Korean threats through our military ister Onodera today. The and they must stop immediately. We Security Council resolution that was ad- preparedness. bonds of America and Japan agreed to bolster our alliance capa- opted, as well as very strong statements have — forged over previous decades — bilities to deter and respond to North being made by the ASEAN nations and Remarks by Secretary of State Swill continue to endure. Today’s honest Korea’s unacceptable behavior and others throughout the world, we all seek Rex Tillerson on Aug. 17, 2017 and productive discussions reaffirmed other challenges to regional security. In the complete, verifiable, and irreversible at the State Department. James Mattis, Rex Tillerson pledge closer military bond with Japan in face of North Korean threat

By Carlo Munoz Mr. Trump’s fiery rhetoric seemed to in- that is necessary,” he said. “That is not weapons, I don’t know what you’re talk- The Washington Times dicate the administration had given little our preferred pathway. And that’s been ing about, there’s no military solution weight to diplomatic options, and was too made clear as well,” he added. here, they got us.” Washington and Tokyo have agreed to eager to pursue military action against The diplomatic option got an endorse- While putting its latest threats on accelerate military cooperation between the North should Pyongyang not back ment from an unlikely source Thursday, hold, North Korea insists it will never U.S. and Japanese forces, bolstering mari- down. Mr. Trump’s off-the-cuff threats in an interview White House chief strat- put its nuclear weapons program on the time and ballistic missile defense and to have a military response to the North egist Steve Bannon gave to the journal negotiating table as long as the Trump ad- expanding into new areas such as cyber- Korean regime “locked and loaded” in American Prospect. The influential Mr. ministration keeps up its “hostile policy

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AR of North Korea to the Pacific region. The warning came from North Korea’s Bilateral talks in Washington on deputy U.N. Ambassador Kim In-ryong

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VOC State Rex W. Tillerson, Japanese Defense on Tuesday and released Thursday, The Minister Itsunori Onodera and Foreign Associated Press reported. Minister Taro Kono, took place days Washington’s efforts to reach a peace- after North Korea backed off threats to ful, diplomatic solution to the growing test launch missiles against U.S. military crisis on the Korean peninsula were

TON TIME S AD TON targets in Guam, missiles that would fly boosted this week when China an- over Japanese airspace. nounced plans to cut off North Korean The threat against Guam capped a coal, iron ore and other goods in three ASH IN G tense several weeks that saw a sharp es- weeks in compliance with recently ap- calation in rhetoric between the regime proved U.N. sanctions.

Y T H E W in Pyongyang and the Trump White China, North Korea’s main trade part- House. Mr. Trump vowed to rain “fire ner and sole patron in the international and fury” against North Korea after a community, has been hesitant to push too AR E D B pair of successful test launches of long- hard against Kim Jong-un’s regime de- range ballistic missiles in July. While spite efforts by the Trump White House

T P R EP the threat of war between the U.S. and to pressure Beijing to take a harder line

TON TIME S TON the North has subsided, the U.S. and its against the North. Pacific allies remain on the “front line” in Mr. Kono told reporters in Washing- the simmering conflict, Mr. Mattis said. ton he anticipates China to continue to ASH IN G “Japan and the Republic of Korea follow through on such efforts in the near are on the front line against the North future. But he dismissed claims that any A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| Korean threat. We in the United States talks between Pyongyang, the U.S. and its recognize any confrontation with North allies could take place before the North Korea would pose an immediate danger agrees to abandon its nuclear ambitions. to our allies and their populations,” he “There’s no sense of dialogue for said alongside Mr. Tillerson and his the sake of dialogue. We agreed on this t 31 • 2017 Japanese counterparts during a press particular prompted his top national Bannon appeared to undercut the tough point,” Mr. Kono said. “Between Japan conference at the State Department. security advisers, including Mr. Mattis rhetorical line Mr. Trump has embraced and the United States, or Japan, U.S. and As a result of the growing military and Mr. Tillerson, to publicly walk back in his public comments against the North. [South Korea] at the center, the interna- threat posed by North Korea, “our mili- those statements. “There’s no military solution [to tional community will continue to apply taries are also cooperating in new ways,” On Thursday, Mr. Tillerson attempted North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it,” its maximum pressure to North Korea. the Pentagon chief said, adding “To- to clarify the administration’s stance on Mr. Bannon said. “Until somebody solves I think there’s a necessity of doing so.”

Thursday • A ugus Thursday gether, we will deter and, if necessary, North Korea. the part of the equation that shows me This news article was first published defeat any threat.” “We are prepared militarily, we are that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die online on Aug. 17, 2017. 8 However, administration critics claim prepared with our allies to respond, if in the first 30 minutes from conventional Only a negotiated settlement will bring peace to the Korean Peninsula

By Ambassador assurances, a peace treaty, economic of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula) imposes additional sanctions on North Joseph R. DeTrani development assistance, the provision in return for a North Korea that has a Korea in response to nuclear tests and of Light Water Reactors when North more normal relationship with the U.S., missile launches. In short, there are tools few weeks ago, there was Korea returned to the Non Proliferation to include initially, the establishment of available to respond to any continua- concern that there could be Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapons interest sections or liaison offices in our tion of North Korea’s threatening and conflict on the Korean Pen- state, and, ultimately, normal diplomatic respective capitals. This was the goal of provocative behavior. insula. Reacting to North relations. On the principle of “action the 2005 Joint Statement. The failure to Ideally, that approach will not be Korea’s Intercontinental for action,” as North Korea commenced comprehensively implement the Joint necessary. It is possible Kim Jong-un will Ballistic Missile (ICBM) with the dismantlement of its nuclear Statement should not be an impediment seize the current opportunity to enter launches on July 4 and July 28, and the vitriolicA statements from North Korea, to include YouTube simulated nuclear attacks on New York and Washington, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would respond to the North Korean threat with “fire and fury the world has never seen.” Kim Jong-un responded by threaten- ing to land four missiles near Guam, inciting President Trump to say the U.S. was “locked and loaded if North Korea acted unwisely.” North Korea acted wisely, with a public statement that Kim Jong-un delayed a decision on firing mis- siles toward Guam while he watched U.S. action a little longer. It is likely North Korea will launch, A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT as they did on Aug. 26 and Aug. 29, additional ballistic missiles during the annual joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise, Ulchi “Freedom Guardian,” which started Aug. 21 and concludes at the end of the month. Indeed, North Korea should refrain from escalating tension by launch- ing ballistic missiles that threaten the U.S., South Korea and Japan after this defensive military exercise. If North Korea launched a ballistic missile, pos- ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH sibly armed with a nuclear warhead, that could be targeted at the U.S. or its allies program, these benefits would have to moving forward with North Korea. unconditional talks with the U.S. while in South Korea and Japan, the launch accrued to them, with the ultimate goal Rather, we should learn from some of refraining from nuclear tests and missile likely would trigger preemptive action to of complete, verifiable and irreversible the mistakes we made with the Joint launches. Exploratory talks with North intercept and destroy the missile. There denuclearization of the Korean Penin- Statement. Korea will be difficult, however, mainly should be no ambiguity about such a sula. Unfortunately, in 2008, when North Given North Korea’s past behavior, because they want to retain their nuclear response to a missile launch from North Korea refused to sign a verification and it’s fair to assume that there will be more weapons and because they are con- THE WASHINGTON TIMES Korea that could pose an “imminent monitoring agreement that would have nuclear tests and missile launches. And vinced U.S. policy toward North Korea threat” to the U.S. or its allies. Even in my permitted nuclear monitors to visit and even if we have exploratory talks with is regime change. This is the constant unofficial meetings with North Korea’s collect samples from sites outside of the North Korea, it’s also fair to assume that refrain I hear from those senior North vice foreign minister in October 2016, Korean officials I’ve been meeting for this message was clearly articulated. the past decade. They cite the fate of We are now at a critical inflection Our task will be to convince Kim Jong-un that Moammar Gadhafi of Libya as proof that point with North Korea. Although all abandoning nuclear weapons is a path to indications are that Kim Jong-un will abandoning nuclear weapons is a path to a peace self-destruction. Thus, our task will be

treaty and survival, a path to becoming a legitimate | continue to launch missiles and conduct to convince Kim Jong-un that abandon- Thursday • A ugus nuclear tests as they pursue a viable sovereign state interacting with the international ing nuclear weapons is a path to a peace and deployable nuclear threat to the community and international financial institutions. treaty and survival, a path to becoming U.S., it is possible that recent construc- a legitimate sovereign state interacting tive statements from Secretary of State with the international community and Rex Tillerson to include the need for Yongbyon nuclear complex, the Joint their demands will be such that it will international financial institutions. Most a negotiated settlement of issues with Statement was discarded. prove impossible to restart viable follow- important, it’s a path to normal diplo-

North Korea, may have convinced Our task now should be twofold: on formal denuclearization negotiations. matic relations with the U.S. t 31 • 2017 Kim Jong-un that it’s time to return Getting Kim Jong-un to halt all missile If that unfortunately develops, the U.S. to unconditional negotiations. North launches and nuclear tests and return and its allies, South Korea and Japan, Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani was Korea knows that the Sept. 19, 2005 Joint to exploratory discussions with the U.S., should enhance regional missile defense the former Special Envoy for Nego- Statement — that Kim Jong-un’s father, followed by reconstituting a multilateral capabilities and upgrade joint military tiations with North Korea. The views Kim Jong-il, endorsed — would have negotiation process to resolve all extant exercises, ideally to include Japan and are the author’s and not any gov- provided North Korea with security issues with North Korea (with the goal other allies, while the United Nations ernment department or agency. 9 An Open Letter to Kim Jong-un and the people of North Korea

and government, it is possible to create work, raise their families and live with- As eloquently written by my Civil division among people based on religion, out fear. They should be able to speak Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: race, creed, sex, nationality and more. freely — yes, even in criticism of the “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice We have seen great inhumanity and government, because no country can everywhere. We are caught in an inescap- great suffering caused by such intoler- call itself great that rules in oppression able network of mutuality, tied in a single ance and fear. and silences all dissent. garment of destiny. Whatever affects one But we do not need to continue in this Notice that I do not ask you to grant directly, affects all indirectly.” (Letter From way. these freedoms to your citizens, but only Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963). At this moment, the world is watch- to recognize them. That is because it is Too many generations have lived and ing with concern as North Korea not in your power to grant them. They died under the oppressive boot of a gov- endangers the peace and security of belong to the people of North Korea ernment that is notorious for its treat- its neighbors. My wife, Deborah, and I (and to every man, woman, and child on ment of dissidents and political pris- will be joining a delegation on a trip to this Earth) by the grace of God and our oners. Kim Jong-un, it is time to allow South Korea in a few days because we shared humanity. They are not rights your people to breathe the sweet air of love the people of this region. We want granted by the government, but are given freedom. Close the political prisons and peace and security for all people. We to us by our Creator. And while unjust labor camps. End the reign of fear and By Rev. William (Bill) Owens want peace and security for the people men may jail, oppress and kill those who collective punishment. Bring God, love of North Korea. choose to exercise these human rights, and hope into your nation. Only then write to you today, not as a stranger Right now, this peace is being threat- they have no power to unmake the rights will you deserve to be called “leader.” from another country ... and most ened. The threat to use nuclear weapons themselves. In prayer, certainly not as an enemy, but as against peaceful people is an act of great To the people of North Korea, I only Rev. William (Bill) Owens someone who has devoted my life evil. But there is another evil that I want say that there is hope. Your suffering to recognizing the natural rights of to address as well. has not gone unmarked, your enforced The author is the President and men. I am writing to call upon you, Chair- silence does not mean that there is no Founder of the Coalition of African- I was born in Tennessee at a time man Kim Jong-un, to recognize the one to speak for you. Throughout the American Pastors, an organization Iwhen a black man was thought to have dignity and freedom that belong to your United States (and the whole world), dedicated to promoting and supporting little chance to succeed in life. Not only people by natural law. And to eliminate there are millions who are praying for Christ-centered values. Rev. Owens is

TMENT did I defy those odds, I helped remake the government structures that pre- your freedom. We know that you have known for taking unpopular stands, no

AR them. vent them from expressing those rights been deprived of the most basic human matter the consequences. He travels As a college student, I became an granted them by God. rights, and we want nothing more than extensively speaking about his core val-

Y D EP active part of America’s great Civil The people of your country should to see liberty and justice take root in ues: choices in education, the sanctity C A Rights movement. I marched with lead- be free to practice their faith, travel, your country. of life, preservation of the family and

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don’t really care about them. Everyone So what must be done? It is OK version of “political correctness” knows that the real problem here is not to send messages like the Tillerson- — their method of thought control, the nukes, but the people who control Mattis one only if we reassure the speech control and, ultimately, behav- them and the genetic code of their North Korean people that we haven’t ior control. Meanwhile, its system of regime. So, by refraining from a call abandoned them. The Tillerson-Mattis internal secret police informants cre- for political change that would benefit message can thus serve a psychologi- ates such a climate of fear and mistrust the North Korean people, their human cal disarmament purpose, at least to that society becomes atomized: Every rights, and their physical health, we are a limited degree. But we must have a individual is separated from all others telling them to accept their fate. This is parallel track of diplomacy — with the and stands alone against the all-power- a message that demoralizes. North Korean people. We must give ful state. The result is that there is too All foreign policy has two dimen- them hope. much fear and too little opportunity for people to organize to resist the regime. What is remarkable about the policies of What is remarkable about the successive U.S. administrations is that however policies of successive U.S. administra- much the North Korean regime consistently tions is that however much the North Korean regime consistently conducts By Dr. John Lenczowski conducts Cold War policies toward us, we do Cold War policies toward us, we do not not reciprocate. Is this because we think that by reciprocate. Is this because we think ecretaries Rex Tillerson doing so, the chances of peace will increase? that by doing so, the chances of peace and James Mattis recently will increase? wrote that the U.S. is not We should remember the counsel seeking regime change in of the great Soviet scientist, Andrei North Korea. Depending Sakharov, who said that there can be on whether they meant it no peace between the U.S. and the or not, this policy has enormous impli- USSR without respect for human

TMENT Scations for the success of their putative rights. He explained that the Kremlin

AR policy, which is to remove the North could never have peace with the West Korean nuclear threat. until it had peace with its own people.

Y D EP Their statement is clearly designed That, of course, by definition, could not C A to calm down the North Korean com- happen so long as the regime remained

VOC munist regime. It is certain, however, communist. that the regime will not calm down. Our policy, then, must be to help This is because it is an illegitimate break the Kim regime’s monopoly of regime whose principal fear is of its information and communications by own people. As George Kennan said of increasing our broadcasts via every

TON TIME S AD TON the USSR, it fears us not for what we medium. We must harness the digital do but for who we are — a democracy revolution in broadcasting by initiat- with a competitive and threatening ing DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) ASH IN G legitimizing concept of state authority: shortwave broadcasts over the Voice the consent of the governed. Nothing of America and Radio Free Asia, which

Y T H E W the U.S. does, short of renouncing our transmit not just sound, but text and political system, will diminish North video. The advantage of these broad- Korean, or for the same reason, Chi- casts is that they can be heard and AR E D B nese, fears of the U.S. seen anonymously, in contrast to the Of one thing we can also be sure: internet. This means that we should

T P R EP The Tillerson-Mattis statement sends flood North Korea (and other parts of

TON TIME S TON a comforting signal to the Kim regime. the world) with DRM receivers, as well It assures it that its nuclear threats are as information and communications succeeding in their purpose, which is technology of every type. By giving ASH IN G to show the North Korean people that the North Korean people information, it is so powerful that it can intimidate democratic ideas and technology, we A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| the U.S., so how can they even con- can help them communicate with one template resisting it? This message is another and, as we did to help the in- central to the internal security system ternal resistance in the Soviet empire,

of totalitarian states: It is designed ILLUSTRATION BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES give them the courage and the means to keep the people in a psychological to resist one of the most toxic tyran- t 31 • 2017 state of “futile resignation.” Simply nies on earth. put, the regime will never renounce its sions: relations with governments How is the people’s hope sup- nuclear weapons. They are an essential (traditional diplomacy) and relations pressed? How does the regime prevent John Lenczowski, Ph.D., is President element of its internal security. with people (public diplomacy). The them from resisting its tyranny? It and Professor at The Institute of World While reassuring Kim Jong-un tragic condition of U.S. foreign policy does so by maintaining a monopoly of Politics. He formerly served as President that his nuclear threats are succeed- ever since the Reagan administration is communications and information, and Reagan’s Soviet affairs adviser. He is the

Thursday • A ugus Thursday ing, and absent other messaging, the that public diplomacy has consistently by using propaganda to promulgate author of “Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Tillerson-Mattis statement also signals occupied a tertiary status in the scale a Party line to which everyone must Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure 12 to the North Korean people that we of national priorities. conform. This is the North Korean and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy.” Three Prayers for The Sake of North Korea

By Dr. William Ames Curtright leaders and their determination for We pray for mothers, fathers, daugh- aggression with spiritual wisdom ters and sons to be joined together Oh Father of all Creation, through that will lead to peaceful prosperity. and prosper. Guide our leaders to set your Holy Spirit and its wisdom, please Heavenly Parent, give us victory not forth a victory of peace and unifica- grant us the words and actions needed on the battlefield, but help us to win tion of these divided nations — all for to resolve the most dangerous con- over the hearts of the Chinese, and Your glory. We ask for peace, prosper- flict on Earth. As a nation, we pray for North Korean leaders and citizens. Our ity, freedom and equality for all. Our peace and unification on the Korean Father, we also pray for those who are beloved God, please accept our plea, in Peninsula. Let your Holy Spirit change suffering at the hands of intolerant and Jesus’ name. Amen the heart, mind, soul and spirit of the brutal regimes — may these people be leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, so liberated now. Dr. William Ames Curtright, DBA is he will realize that all of Korea needs We pray that our enemies can be the CEO of Ames Research Labs and peace and prosperity — not war and transformed into our friends. Let founder of “Gathering of Eagles,” an an- destruction. their hearts understand our gestures. nual meeting of hundreds of conserva- Please let all the atheistic and evil Dear God, Father of all, please unify tive and liberty-minded organizations. forces in Northeast Asia be removed the divided families from North and and driven out. Change the egos of South Korea that yearn to be together.

forgiving towards each other. We Staff Department, Vice-Marshal of the Lord. Please let the families of lift up the names and positions of 8. Pak Yo’ng-sik, Minister of People’s South and North Korea be reunited. the 12 most important leaders that Armed Forces, KPA 4-star General Let President Trump be very wise in

surround Kim Jong-un, the leader of 9. Ri Su-yong, Director of WPK CC his decisions. Give him patience to R the Democratic People’s Republic of International Department disarm the North Korean leadership A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT Korea (North Korea). And we pray 10. Kim Won-hong, Director of State and eliminate their desire to attack that miracles will take place. Security Department, 4-star general America. Let there be no war and no The top leader is Kim Jong-un, who 11. Ch’oe Pu-il, Minister of People’s attacks. And Satan, we come against is Chairman of the Workers Party of Security, 4-star general you and we take authority over you in Korea (WPK), Chairman of DPRK 12. Kim Yo’ng-ch’ol, Director of WPK the name of Jesus. And we command State Affairs Commission, and Su- CC United Front Department, KPA that all your assignments towards preme Commander of Korean People’s 4-star general the North Korean people and their Army (KPA). These are top 12 DPRK leadership to bring havoc and war to government officials in his inner circle Father God, we lift up every one America and her allies, is now bound of power players: of these men, and pray you will visit and vanquished. them and draw them to you. Thank We plead the blood of Jesus Christ By Joy Lamb 1. Kim Yo’ng-nam, President of the You, Lord, that you will pour out your over every evil planned toward America. Presidium of the Supreme People’s spirit on each one of these North This horrible evil will cease to be. And Assembly Korean leaders, in the name of Jesus the world will stand in awe as people see This is a call to prayer to resolve 2. Hwang Pyo’ng-so’, Director of KPA Christ. Lord, we ask that you diffuse the power of God enter into this conflict the conflict between the dictatorship General Political Department, the anger and the hatred in their spir- and stop it in its tracks, in the Holy of North Korea and the free nations of Vice-Marshal its towards the United States, South Name of Jesus Christ. South Korea, America and Japan along 3. Pak Pong-ju, Premier of DPRK Korea and Japan. We pray you can with the international community. We 4. Ch’oe Ryong-hae, Vice-Chairman of deliver these men from the domin- Joy Lamb is author of “The Sword of know that nothing is impossible when WPK Central Committee ion of darkness and transfer them to the Spirit, the Word of God: A Hand- we call God in on the situation. As 5. Kim Ki-nam, Director of WPK the Kingdom of Light, where there book for Praying God’s Word.” Please Americans, we are calling upon You, CC Propaganda and Agitation is forgiveness and repentance of sin. visit: theswordofthespiritbook.com. Lord, to help our leaders and people Department Let each one of these men repent and THE WASHINGTON TIMES establish peace on the Korean Penin- 6. Ch’oe T’ae-pok, Director of believe in the Gospel. sula. Let all bitterness, wrath and evil WPK CC Science and Education Cleanse the North Korean leader- speaking be put behind them. Please Department ship of any defilement of flesh and let them be kind, tender-hearted and 7. Ri Myo’ng-su, Chief of KPA General spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear

By Nancy Schulze hearts, O God. You alone can do this. Your sovereign goodness, we pray in |

Release them, Father, from the power profound faith that prayers sincerely Thursday • A ugus Father, as we gratefully thank You of lies. offered in accord with Your sovereign for the majesty of Your creation, there Sustain, uphold and protect Your will and purposes will be answered. are few places on Earth that cause us people in the south. Thank You for Amen to cry out to You more than Korea their freedom, purchased by blood and our Korean brothers and sisters soaked into Korean soil as a testa- Nancy Schulze is co-founder, with Vonette trapped under the control of godless ment to Your great gift of free will. Bright, of the American Prayer Initia-

Communist leaders in the north. We May they not have died in vain. Please tive, a Fellow with the Colson Center for t 31 • 2017 humbly but boldly ask You to pierce turn the hearts of leaders the world Christian Worldview and founder of the the strongholds of darkness. Release over. Protect them, Father, from Congressional Wives Speakers. Please this gentle land from the power and deception and division. Move them visit: americanprayerinitiative.org. control of ruthless men, trapped to see, receive and proceed in accord themselves under a deceitful, destruc- with Your strategy to set Korea free. tive, evil ideology. Re-engineer their All of Korea. In grateful thanks for 13 The human rights holocaust of North Korea

the Nazi Holocaust — from “The Pianist” to “Schindler’s List” — there has been deafening silence with respect to the greatest and longest-running modern holocaust in North Korea. Nor has it helped that most entertainment content on North Korea follows the vapid and sophomoric pattern of movies like “The Interview.” We must challenge Holly- wood to make a compelling movie about the North Korean concentration camps, where entire generations are born and die without even learning the existence of a world beyond the barbed wire of the slave labor camp. By Dr. Matthew Daniels Of course, we should all hope and pray that the latest round of North t should come as no surprise that Korean nuclear rhetoric is simply more North Korea is threatening parts of saber rattling by the regime in Pyong- the United States with annihilation. yang — a regime so prone to threats that For decades, the North Korean few in South Korea even pay attention regime has been systematically any more. But the genocidal extermina- annihilating segments of its own tion of Christians and mixed-race chil- population. More specifically, the North dren in North Korea is ongoing. IKorean regime has been engaged for This cannot be allowed to stand by decades in the supreme human rights ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH the international community if it is to offense of genocide — the deliberate at- avoid repeating the failures of history tempt to exterminate entire racial, ethnic modern genocide in Africa, the Bal- on all pregnant women who are repatri- in Nazi Germany, Serbia, Rwanda and or religious groups. kans, Southeast Asia and elsewhere. But ated from China on the assumption that Cambodia. We need to galvanize world The entire human rights framework nowhere has it failed more systematically the father of the child could be Chinese opinion now for action to end the human embraced by the civilized nations of the and completely than in North Korea. — and without asking the mother about rights holocaust in North Korea.

TMENT world in the aftermath of the Second The actions of the North Korean whether or not that is the case.

AR World War is rooted in a desire to avoid government are tantamount to genocide Second, the North Korean regime Matthew Daniels, J.D., Ph.D., is Chair of genocide. The civilized world had in two specific cases. similarly practices a policy of extermina- Law & Human Rights at the Institute

Y D EP recoiled in collective horror at the full First, the North Korean regime tion against Christians. If identified by of World Politics in Washington, D.C., C A extent of Nazi atrocities in the concentra- has an official policy of exterminating the government, Christians and their and creator of www.universalrights.

VOC tion camps. So a legal system was created mixed-race children in the name of an families are sent to labor and extermi- com. These are links for Human Rights that confers an affirmative obligation on ideology of North Korean “racial purity.” nation camps, never to return. This is Network videos on North Korea: “The the United Nations and U.N. member This is carried out through both forced because Christians — like Jews in Nazi North Korean Holocaust” https://youtu. states to do something to stop genocide abortions and infanticides motivated Germany — are officially regarded as be/NV-JYs_Dz5E; “Farther Away Than wherever it may occur. by a deep-rooted disdain for ethnically enemies of the state and agents of the Africa” https://youtu.be/2I5T77XERxE;

TON TIME S AD TON But that system has failed so far mixed children, in particular those of United States. and “Escape from North Korea” with respect to North Korea. Arguably, Chinese descent. Sources even suggest Interestingly, while Hollywood has https://youtu.be/zf3YkEnXh7Y the system also failed in other cases of that forced abortions may be carried out made a series of deeply moving films on ASH IN G Y T H E W

AR E D B ‘Red-teaming’ the diplomatic option in Korea Why a Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un might be a good idea T P R EP

TON TIME S TON By Gary Anderson and nuclear capability exponentially, desperate attempt to focus dissent away Since the Cold War began, we have the chance of a miscalculation becomes from the leadership cadre. never gone to war with a Communist-led Should President Trump meet person- greater and greater. In all the years since I began as a red nation with which we have had diplo- ASH IN G ally with Kim Jong-un? John Glover, a Over the years I have played the teamer, war has been avoided in the real matic relations. We never got to be bud- graduate student at George Mason Uni- North Korean tactical commander in world, presumably since neither of those dies with the Soviets, but we were able A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| versity wrote an article advocating such a a number of war games. In getting into conditions have reached critical mass. A to avoid war while not appearing weak meeting and, frankly, I think that he’s on role, I’ve had to study what we know Trump-Kim meeting could go a long way in their eyes. We fought Red China in to something. of North Korean doctrine, strategy and toward ensuring that a conflict doesn’t Korea at a time when we did not formally The frequent crisis situations that psychology. I have often tried to conceive come to pass. recognize its existence, and the same North Korea instigates with the West are of what would drive Pyongyang to start Richard Nixon could not have broken happened with North Vietnam. t 31 • 2017 exacerbated by the fact that the leaders what would be a suicidal war. the ice with China had he not been such a Mr. Trump never made any ideologi- have never talked. Unlike Nikita Khrush- No matter how well our army did in hard-line Cold Warrior. Any Democratic cal claims to the overthrow of the Kim chev and Mao Zedong during the Cold the initial stages, it was obvious to me president who tried it would have been dynasty during the election and probably War, no North Korean leader has ever that we would lose; either the regime labeled “soft on communism.” Mr. Trump would not have paid much attention to met a U.S. president and the lack of face- would be destroyed or we’d get nuked, or drew a red line in Syria and backed it up it until North Korea got serious about to-face dialogue probably exacerbates both. The best I could figure is that they with action when the Syrians stepped putting nuclear warheads on ICBMs

Thursday • A ugus Thursday the tensions exponentially. I do not think believed that they had a truly existen- across. Mr. Trump has drawn another line and threatening Guam. No American that the current crisis will result in war, tial threat from the outside, or they had with the North Koreans and it seems to 14 but as North Korea increases its missile such internal turmoil that a war was a have gotten Mr. Kim’s attention. » see ANDERSON | C15 Aiding refugees brings freedom closer for North Korea

punished by the security forces. Most leave by crossing into China, where they risk repatriation back to North Korea and are often victims of sex trafficking. The lucky ones are assisted by a loose network of organizations and individu- als that helps shepherd refugees out of China to third countries. Once there, they can apply for refugee status in South Korea or the United States. While the vast majority of escap- ees choose to resettle in South Korea, around 500 North Koreans have come legally to the United States as refugees or immigrants since President George By Lindsay Lloyd W. Bush signed the North Korea Human orth Korea continues to Rights Act into law in 2004. make news for all the Research commissioned by the wrong reasons. Scarcely George W. Bush Institute has revealed In November, Grace Jo and Joseph Kim, both North Korean refugees, spoke at the “Light a day goes by without a that most North Koreans living here Through Darkness” conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Photo headline about Pyongyang’s have adjusted well, and that they want credit: Grant Miller for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. ambitions to develop and to contribute to American society. They perhaps use nuclear weapons. North remind us why helping others escape op- NKorea’s unwillingness to respect the pression is not only the right thing to do, active in promoting freedom in their norms of international relations derives it is in our best interest as Americans. homeland by speaking out on the plight from the fact that there is no rule of law. Nevertheless, they face significant of those they left behind. A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT As the Trump administration and Con- challenges. Many struggle financially In June, the Bush Institute awarded gress grapple with Pyongyang’s security and have limited prospects for careers the first eight scholarships to North challenge to the United States and our or professional advancement. Many of Koreans who have resettled in the allies, it’s important to remember that them desire to improve their education United States. The recipients will attend North Korea’s human rights abuses are and skills as a way to secure a happy and four-year and community colleges and not unrelated. prosperous life. Yet they are often unable are studying in a range of fields, includ- Just as North Korea refuses to respect to afford the cost of education. ing nursing, information technology and the norms of international relations, it For that reason, the Bush Institute theology. While their stories of escape also commits human rights abuses of established the North Korea Freedom are heartbreaking, they share a goal of its people on a massive scale, including Scholarship program. It allows individu- wanting to improve life for their fellow executions, torture and detention. The als who were born in North Korea and North Koreans. The second round of ap- people are denied fundamental rights now live legally in the United States to Former President George W. Bush stands plications for the scholarship will open like free expression, association, assem- apply for scholarships to attend institu- with Joseph Kim, a refugee from North in January 2018. bly and religion. In North Korea, voicing tions of higher learning. The scholarship Korea who received a grant from the North North Korea remains a dangerous and an opinion or engaging in religious wor- may be used at four-year colleges and Korea Freedom Scholarship Program from repressive country, but by enhancing the ship can be punished by imprisonment universities, community colleges, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center prospects of individual North Koreans, or death. Leaving the country is a capital vocational and technical schools. in Dallas. Photo credit: Grant Miller for the we can hasten the day when all North crime, but for some North Koreans, it is Through learning a trade or taking up George W. Bush Presidential Center. Koreans are free. a risk worth taking. a profession, these escapees can better THE WASHINGTON TIMES Escaping North Korea tests physical provide for themselves and their families Lindsay Lloyd is Deputy Director, Human endurance and is typically a harrowing and contribute to our common prosper- sending remittances and uncensored in- Freedom at the George W. Bush Institute experience. Escapees know that their ity. They also serve as a vital link to formation to friends and family. Increas- in Dallas. actions may mean their families will be those trapped behind in North Korea by ingly, many of the refugees have become

As the secretary of Defense and chair- North, Mr. Kim cannot afford to be seen he does. If I were to give the president | ANDERSON man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have said, as going into the camp of the enemy. face-to-face advice on this matter, I’d Thursday • A ugus From page C14 the military option is always on the table. However, a meeting at the 38th parallel paraphrase his own words. “What the The Cold War between North Korea in Korea or in Beijing would be more fea- Hell have you got to lose?” president can ignore such provocations. and the West would not end with such sible and would give Mr. Kim the world A Trump-Kim meeting would play to a meeting, but it might well de-escalate recognition he obviously craves. A suc- Gary Anderson is a retired Marine Corps what Mr. Trump considers his great- the current crisis and open the road for cessful meeting would probably be one colonel who teaches alternative analysis est skill, that being person-to-person further dialogue. Winston Churchill was that doesn’t end in a shouting match, but (red teaming) at the George Washington

negotiations. Since he never considered fond of saying; “Jaw, jaw is better than it would also vastly increase Mr. Trump’s University’s Elliott School of International t 31 • 2017 unprovoked regime change in Pyong- war, war.” street cred in the foreign policy realm. Affairs. This article first published online yang, Mr. Trump would not be giving Mr. Glover suggests that Mr. Trump Hard-liners who do favor military in The Washington Times Commentary anything up in assuring Mr. Kim that we invite the North Korean leader to Wash- action against the North, or Iraqi-like re- section on Aug. 17, 2017. will not undertake such an action unless ington, but that is probably not workable. gime change would not be happy, and the we or our South Korean or Japanese al- If the pressure to ratchet up tensions is left as well as many mainstream Republi- lies is attacked. being driven by internal politics in the cans will hate Mr. Trump no matter what 15 Parliamentarians’ Association formed to focus on peace By Dr. Thomas G. Walsh respect, and cooperation among the world’s peoples; and s the world faces a wide To encourage respectful, interreli- range of 21st century gious dialogue as essential to building a challenges and threats peaceful world. — including the current Since its founding in February crisis with North Korea 2016, IAPP has been launched in more — it becomes increasingly than 30 nations throughout the world, clear that in order to address and solve generating substantial enthusiasm and criticalA global problems, a more collab- support. The international co-chairs of orative and multisectoral approach to IAPP are the Hon. Dan Burton, former governance and international relations is member of the House of Representa- required. While the Westphalian system tives of the U.S. Congress, and Hon. of world order, centered on sovereign Jose De Venecia, former Speaker of the states, has prospered and endured for House of Representatives of the Philip- centuries, we face a wide range of global pines. In recent months, IAPP programs or transnational problems that require were convened in India, Nicaragua, the full complement of stakeholders The International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace launched in Nigeria this Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Aus- being engaged. That is, not only govern- summer with 227 participants. Photo courtesy of Universal Peace Federation International. tralia, Bolivia, Benin, Togo, Indonesia ments, but also non-state actors from and Israel. It is expected that by the civil society to the private sector and, end of 2017 there will be more than 70 indeed, faith-based organizations. qualified to serve as advocates for peace IAPP will work cooperatively and national-level chapters of the IAPP, en- Stated a bit differently, the hard and human development. As repre- collaboratively with the many exist- gaging well over 2,000 parliamentarians power instruments of government must sentatives of the people, they stand as ing organizations and associations of from diverse political parties. be increasingly augmented by the soft mediators between government and parliamentarians around the world, IAPP has the potential to make power instruments aimed at building civil society. Their experience with the some formally organized as intergov- significant contributions to the effort trust, confidence, mutual respect and practical challenges related to law-mak- ernmental bodies and others informally to promote peace around the world, in-

TMENT understanding where there may only ing and public policy gives them unique associated. cluding in Northeast Asia. For example,

AR be suspicion, acrimony, bitter resent- set skills and insights that are required The primary objectives of IAPP a delegation of IAPP members from ments or hostility. Parliamentarians can if we are to forge a path to peace and include the following: Nepal were part of a high-level visit

Y D EP serve as a bridge between government bring solutions to the critical challenges To promote good governance in all to North Korea in August of this year, C A and civil society and between the hard of our time, including poverty, conflict, sectors of society; where substantive discussions took

VOC and soft power approaches to peace and cyber-crime, the rise of extremist move- To develop high-quality educational place, including a proposal for follow- human development. ments, environmental threats, and even programs for parliamentarians; up meetings in Pyongyang involving the With this in mind, the International the various culture wars that divide the To promote and encourage dialogue UPF and IAPP. Association of Parliamentarians for human family. and cooperation among parliamentari- Peace (IAPP) was founded by Dr. Hak Given that we live in an increasingly ans from nations around the world with Thomas G. Walsh, Ph.D., is Chairman

TON TIME S AD TON Ja Han Moon and launched by the interdependent and interconnected the aim of promoting peace and human of Universal Peace Federation Interna- Universal Peace Federation, an NGO in world, the global nature of such prob- development; tional, which has NGO consultative sta- special consultative status with the Eco- lems require global cooperation and To uphold core, universal principles, tus with the Economic and Social Council ASH IN G nomic and Social Council of the United coordination. recognizing that all human beings are of the United Nations. He is Secretary- Nations, to form a collaborative, global IAPP will provide a forum for members of one global family; General of the Sunhak Peace Prize Foun-

Y T H E W network of parliamentarians, working parliamentarians from all nations and To protect, preserve and uphold the dation, and also serves on the Interna- alongside representatives of civil soci- political parties, allowing them to dignity and value of each human being; tional Council of the World Association ety, faith-based organizations and the come together in a spirit of dialogue To strengthen the family as the cen- of Non-Governmental Organizations and AR E D B private sector, for the sake of peace and and cooperation in order to search for tral and most fundamental institution of on the board of directors of the Interna- human development. solutions to local, national, regional and human society; tional Coalition for Religious Freedom.

T P R EP Parliamentarians are uniquely global problems. To work to build trust, mutual TON TIME S TON

ASH IN G Parliamentarians linking arms for peace, human development A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| By International Association of Australia (August 2017) Israel (June 2017) Nigeria (June 2017) Parliamentarians for Peace Bangladesh (October 2017) Italy (October 2017) Pakistan (September 2017) Belgium (December 2017) Japan (November 2017) Paraguay (April 2017) More than 2,000 Parliamentarians Benin (July 2017) Jordan (December 2017) Peru (October 2017)

t 31 • 2017 in the following nations have formed or Bolivia (August 2017) Korea (February 2017) Philippines (March 2017) are in the process of forming a chapter Burkina Faso (August 2016) Kosovo (September 2017) Sri Lanka (October 2016) of International Association of Parlia- Costa Rica (October 2016) Lebanon (November 2017) Togo (June 2016) mentarians for Peace. IAPP chapters are Cambodia (November 2016) Marshall Isles (July 2017) United Arab Emirates (September 2017) under discussion in another 30 countries. Dominican Republic (July 2017) Morocco (October 2017) United Kingdom (September 2016) Democratic Republic of the Congo (June 2017) Myanmar (July 2017) United States (November 2016) Albania (November 2017) Fiji (May 2017) Nepal (July 2016) Vanuatu (August 2017) Thursday • A ugus Thursday Argentina (November 2017) India (April 2017) Nicaragua (July 2017) Zambia (November 2017) 16 Who is the real target of North Korea’s nuclear weapons?

into military conflict that pulled in the U.S., China, the Soviet Union and 15 other nations in 1950, and has been held in check ever since by a fragile ceasefire. There have been no serious steps to- wards resolving the underlying conflict that prevents real peace. South Korea has still not changed the part of its Consti- tution that says, for example, that the people in North Korea are South Korean citizens. North Korea’s ruling Labor Party Constitution, for its part, still com- mits the regime’s leaders to take over South Korea by means fair or foul. (They are obliged to go for foul, i.e., stir up a By Michael Breen war again, because, if they were to ask issile tests by North fairly — by, say, a referendum — South Korea and threats Koreans would vote against them 99.99 against the United percent). States by her leader, But in truth, this 70-year battle is over. Kim Jong-un, and an We know South Korea has won. It is the unprecedentedly firm real Korea in this modern world. The response of “fire and fury” from Presi- problem is that the North’s leaders have A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT Mdent Donald J. Trump combined this not acknowledged their failure. They summer to create what may be described have not turned the corner and adopted as a panic over the prospect of a nuclear a new national strategy of focusing attack on American soil. on the economy instead of defense, or achieve it? for deliberately stoking the recent ten- Thousands turned to Google to find rejoining with the better South. They are Then the role the nukes play is sion was to scare Americans into talking out what to do in the case of a detona- stuck, caught like a deer in the head- completely different. And so is what Kim about peace and for the two sides to tion. In Hawaii, the state emergency lights of a future that doesn’t need them. Jong-un wants from America. arrive at a Korean War Peace Treaty that management office issued instructions Given this outcome, some analysts Consider: Kim Jong-un is not stupid. would include the important provision — get underground immediately and believe that Kim Jong-un’s nuclear weap- He knows a popular pro-North Korean of ending American support for South don’t try and watch the blast because the ons serve to help his regime survive. revolution in South Korea is no longer Korea. light can blind you — and in California, With nukes as insurance, Kim Jong-un possible. Not only would 51 million It is important to consider this now fallout shelter retailers did brisk trade. can keep the U.S. and South Korea at bay, wealthy, freedom-loving South Koreans because, with the recent war of words This is all understandable, but for all while maintaining the fiction in the never rise up and ask him to be their and the fallout shelter-buying spree people like me, and around 51 million eyes of the people that their lives are in leader, but also, if he took them over behind us, talk of talks is picking up as if others who live in South Korea — Seoul danger and that they need tough leader- forcibly, they would be a nightmare to it is the grown-up thing to do. is about as close to the border with ship to protect them. If these analysts control. Believe me, the reason the North If this scarier analysis is correct, North Korea as Washington, D.C., is to are right — and I’ve been waking up four Korean dictators are so horrendous on there is no need to refuse to talk. But we Baltimore — there is something not right mornings a week for the last 25 years human rights is because their Korean should do so smartly. Our objective in in this American response. It’s as if fake agreeing with them — then American subjects are so fractious. Controlling engaging North Korea should be for the THE WASHINGTON TIMES news has taken over and driven every- belligerence is playing into their hands. them is like herding cats. So, subduing singular purpose of infecting as many one crazy. Americans are buying fallout Perhaps we should take a new tack and South Koreans calls for extraordinary North Koreans as possible with the shelters? Is this from The Onion? try to convince Kim Jong-un that we and measures. freedom virus. We should do what we That is because, in South Korea, we our South Korean allies mean no harm. In that vein, some other analysts now did with the Soviets: talk, engage, swap know that North Korea would never use We should encourage him to follow a believe that Kim Jong-un’s solution, as embassies and ballet performances and nuclear weapons against America. No, new path. We should engage him with unbelievable as it may seem, is to use all that, and get the two Koreas doing the real target is us. sincerity, agree to a proper Korean War nuclear weapons against some part of the same — not because this will lead to The journey to that conclusion starts Peace Treaty, commit to non-interfer- South Korea and move in to take over peace, but because the whiff of freedom |

with this question: What exactly does ence, open diplomatic relations, join the shell-shocked remains, rather as the will get up their noses and work its Thursday • A ugus North Korea want? To figure that out, hands and sing Kumbaya. Otherwise, United States did with Japan at the end destructive magic. consider the unusual context. Unlike any this will just go on forever. of World War II. But there is something else that we other neighbors in the world today, the But the other three days a week, I If this analysis is the correct one, did with the Soviets that was equally as two Koreas — the North and, our ally, wake up at home, which I should point then the United States is not a useful important and which, if there is no solu- the South — with straight faces, claim out is just a few hundred yards from the tool for regime survival, but an obstacle. tion soon, the South Koreans might do sovereignty over each other. Each treats Blue House, South Korea’s White House, Right now, Kim Jong-un knows that — and that is to start an arms race that

the other’s government as illegitimate which would surely be ground zero, with one nuclear missile headed for Guam, the poorer enemy can never win. t 31 • 2017 and forbids any people-to-people cross- a very different thought. Yes, we think as he threatened, let alone Hawaii or border contact. the North Koreans have lost to South the U.S. mainland — or South Korea — Michael Breen is the author of “The This civil war, for that is what it is, Korea. But what if they don’t? What if all would mean the end of his country. His New Koreans: The Story of a Nation.” sometimes hot and sometimes cold, their talk of war and unification is not unification strategy will only work if He lives with his family in Seoul. started with the rift of Korea into two just propaganda? What if the dream is U.S. military support for South Korea is states after World War II. It exploded still alive? What if they think they can neutralized. In such a picture, his reason 17 ROK’s President Moon: A stellar first 100 days

likely to “undermine the competitive of hope, an expression of indefatigable of realism” and “diplomatic naiveté,” and advantages of Korean economy” and optimism, and a demonstration of blasted him for “not thinking through his “stifle future growth,” the Korean public visionary leadership for President Moon ideas” and even for “recklessness.” loves President Moon’s socioeconomic to publicly declare that there will be But his words are neither wishful policies and supports his management of no war on the Korean peninsula under thinking nor an indication of inexperi- state affairs. his watch. This bold statement sends ence. They actually express his genuine Strength at home gives President a powerful message to the world that belief that pressure alone won’t work in Moon confidence in dealing with the Moon Jae-in is strongly committed to Pyongyang, and there is no politically country’s international threats and maintaining peace and stability on the acceptable military solution to the North challenges. His maiden visit to Washing- peninsula by the means of international Korean nuclear issue; it can only be re- ton in June, with its highly anticipated diplomacy, credible military deterrence solved through a negotiated settlement. summit with President Trump, was a and multifaceted engagement with His words signal the contours of Presi- complete success. It reassured both the North Korea. On one hand, he extended dent Moon’s emerging new approach Korean and American peoples that the an offer to revive the inter-Korean social how to get there: through diplomatic ROK-U.S. military and security alliance and economic exchanges, including the negotiations on two parallel tracks — was as strong as ever. Not only did he as- fielding of a joint South-North team South-North and U.S.-North Korean, By Dr. Alexandre Y. Mansourov suage some American fears that the new at the P’yongch’ang Winter Olympic with the ROK diplomacy taking the lead hen Moon Jae-in was progressive government in Seoul was Games in 2018 and hosting of a joint in shaping the final negotiated outcome elected president of “going its own independent way,” but, as South-North football World Cup in 2030, and the U.S. ally playing a support- the Republic of Korea ing role in making it happen, without in May, in the wake of outsourcing to China the difficult work the momentous popu- It was an act of courage, a harbinger of hope, of convincing the Kim Jong-un regime to lar protests that had change its mind and accept the nuclear led to the impeachment and ouster of an expression of indefatigable optimism, and a deal. Some skeptics already say “we’ve Whis predecessor, he inherited the roaring demonstration of visionary leadership for President seen it before,” “it was tried and failed Seoul street distrustful of the govern- Moon to publicly declare that there will be no in the 1990s,” etc. Obviously, President ment; the raging northern neighbor who war on the Korean peninsula under his watch. Moon does not share their pessimism.

TMENT seemingly “went off rail” with the “right- He believes that “A river cuts through

AR in-your-face” nuclear and endless missile rock, not because of its power, but be- tests; an unpredictable U.S. ally who cause of its persistence.”

Y D EP threatened to break off the strategic free a reliable and responsible ally, the United and proposed to resume the South- Last July, the Moon Jae-in administra- C A trade agreement and unleash war on the States under the Trump administration North intergovernmental and military- tion set up a special task force to review

VOC peninsula; as well as deteriorating rela- agreed not to take any military action to-military talks. On the other hand, he how the impeached Park Geun-hye tions with prickly China and unyielding against North Korea without Seoul’s has also drawn a “red line” for Pyong- administration made its decisions re- Japan. It was a difficult hand to play. consent. As President Moon stated in his yang’s provocative behavior, namely, “a garding North Korea, and why it decided Yet, in his first hundred days, Presi- Aug. 17 news conference, “The United completion of the ICBM development to shut down the Gaeseong Industrial dent Moon was able not only to pacify States and President Donald Trump too and mounting of nuclear warheads Complex and halt civic inter-Korean

TON TIME S AD TON the Seoul street, but also to begin to have agreed to discuss any options it on ballistic missiles,” and reiterated exchanges and humanitarian aid in 2016. rebuild the public trust in govern- may take [against North Korea] with his determination to do his utmost to This probe is part of President Moon’s ment institutions and earn high marks South Korea, regardless of what kind of prevent North Korea from becoming a initiative to root out “old evils.” The ASH IN G for his progressive policies, dynamic options it takes.” full-fledged nuclear weapons state. At ROK Ministry of Unification is expected performance and open, communicative It was an act of courage, a harbinger once, his critics accused him of the “lack to finish its internal investigation in

Y T H E W leadership style — which contrasts with September. Once the North Korea policy corporate collusion and obsession with review is complete, President Moon’s backroom deals, lackluster performance new approach to North Korea is likely to AR E D B and self-centered leadership of his pre- firm up, and one can expect a new push decessor. His sky-high popular approval to jump-start the stalled inter-Korean

T P R EP ratings — hovering around 80 dialogue from the Blue House. The

TON TIME S TON percent — allow him Trump administration to push ahead with stands ready to do truly remarkable its part of the heavy ASH IN G liberal reforms, such lifting to find the as a major job-creation peaceful way towards A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| plan for the public the complete, verifi- sector, a substantial able and irreversible increase in the minimum denuclearization on the wage, a raise in the basic Korean peninsula. pension for all senior citi- t 31 • 2017 zens, and a vow to improve Alexandre Y. Mansourov, public health insurance Ph.D., is professor of secu- coverage, as well as a nuclear- rity studies at Georgetown free energy policy with a com- University’s School of Foreign mitment not to raise electricity Service and professor of Asian fees for five years. Although his studies at the School of Ad-

Thursday • A ugus Thursday critics contend that his domestic policy vanced International Studies of Johns proposals are “too radical,” “extremely Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. 18 populist,” “can’t be paid for,” and are Government warns North Korean cyber attacks continue Pyongyang botnet targets crititical U.S. infrastructure, aerospace firms, DHS says

botnet infrastructure.” exfiltration of data while others have been “These actors have also used Adobe Flash A botnet is a network of a large number disruptive in nature,” the notice said, not- player vulnerabilities to gain initial entry of hijacked computers and networks that ing that security experts have identified into users’ environments.” are used to conduct cyber attacks designed two entities used as cover names by the The report warned that cyber attacks A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT to shut down networks by flooding them North Koreans. They are the Lazarus can produce severe impacts, especially with digital requests. Group and the Guardians of Peace. when sensitive information is stolen and “The U.S. government refers to the The Guardians of Peace was the code made public. malicious cyber activity by the North name used by North Korean hackers who DHS said that by using software secu- Korean government as Hidden Cobra,” attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment in rity patches, technically blocking known the notice said. what officials have called one of the first malware, restricting administrator privi- The technical details were published publicly known state-sponsored cyber leges, and using firewalls, up to 85 percent to assist computer administrators in iden- attacks. of cyber intrusions can be halted. tifying North Korea botnet cyber strikes. The November 2014 cyber attack “However, many organizations fail to “FBI has high confidence that Hidden against Sony was aimed at derailing re- use these basic security measures, leav- Cobra actors are using the IP addresses lease of the comedy film The Interview ing their systems open to compromise,” for further network exploitation,” the that involved a fictional plot to kill North the report said. By Bill Gertz notice said. Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Details of the North Korean hacker Washington Free Beacon The government warning followed a The attack resulted in the destruction methods were disclosed by the security report by the California-based security of Sony networks and the theft and disclo- firm Novetta in a recent report, “Operation he Department of Homeland firm Palo Alto Networks earlier this month sure of valuable and sensitive internal data. Blockbuster: Destructive Malware Report.” Security and FBI issued a new indicating that North Korean hackers were “DHS and FBI assess that Hidden Cobra “The destructive malware within the warning on Wednesday [Aug. targeting U.S. defense contractors. actors will continue to use cyber op- Lazarus Group’s collection ranges from 23] that North Korean govern- The hackers sent out emails containing erations to advance their government’s simplistic to moderately advanced in con- THE WASHINGTON TIMES ment hackers are continuing to weaponized Microsoft Office documents, military and strategic objectives,” the struction and style,” the report said. target critical U.S. infrastruc- including one that used a fraudulent job notice said. “However, regardless of the structure ture for cyber attacks. offering for a position as a manager of the Among the cyber attack tools used by and complexity of the code for any particu- TA technical report by DHS’ National Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, the North Koreans are botnets, keyloggers, lar tool, their operational effectiveness is Cyber Awareness System reveals details of or THAAD, the U.S. anti-missile system remote access tools, and wiper malware. undeniable,” the report added. the tools and cyber methods being used by recently deployed to South Korea. Keyloggers are malware capable of “The author(s) behind these destruc- North Korean government hackers. “The techniques and tactics the group remotely intercepting keyboard strokes tive malware families have developed a The alert said the North Korean gov- uses have changed little in recent attacks,” in learning login and passwords; remote set of tools capable of inflicting significant | ernment is using the cyber tools to “target Palo Alto Networks stated in a report. access tools are methods of creating covert damage against a target either directly … Thursday • A ugus the media, aerospace, financial, and critical “Tool and infrastructure overlaps with openings in networks targeted for attacks; or remotely. This further emphasizes that infrastructure sectors in the United States previous campaigns are apparent. Given and wiper malware is used to destroy all even a moderately capable adversary with and globally.” that the threat actors have continued op- data on targeted networks. minimal resources is able to perform asym- The warning comes amid heightened erations despite their discovery and public The malware linked to the North Ko- metric cyberwar against a large target.” tensions between the United States and exposure it is likely they will continue to reans includes variants called Destroyer, North Korea. Pyongyang recently threat- operate and launch targeted campaigns.” Wild Positron/Duuzer, and Hangman. This article by Bill Gertz, senior edi-

ened to fire missiles at Guam prompt- The North Korean botnet has been op- The North Koreans also appear to be tor of the Washington Free Beacon, first t 31 • 2017 ing counter threats from the Trump erating since 2009 and have compromised targeting networks that use older, unsup- appeared online on Aug. 24, 2017 and administration. “a range of victims” that were not speci- ported Microsoft operating systems, such is reprinted with permission. Mr. Gertz The notice lists Internet Protocol ad- fied by the notice. The latest DHS report as Windows XP. also writes the weekly “Inside the Ring” dresses linked to a malware called Delta- provided additional details on the cyber “The multiple vulnerabilities in these column for The Washington Times. Charlie that is “used to manage North Ko- threat from a report first published in June. older systems provide cyber actors many rea’s distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) “Some intrusions have resulted in the targets for exploitation,” the notice said. 19 Making the best of a bad nuclear hand Trump deals with the leadership failure Obama left behind

hold your breath. “The fact is,” she told CNN, “that published on Thursday in The New Susan Rice, President Obama’s despite all of those efforts, the North York Times that said Mr. Trump national security adviser and U.N. Korean regime has been able to suc- should soften his rhetoric and accept ambassador, even after admitting that ceed in progressing with its program, a nuclear North Korea. “History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea — the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War,” Ms. Rice wrote. “It will require being pragmatic.” She went on not only to criticize Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, but the United Nations for exacerbating the situa- tion by increasing the sanctions on North Korea. Her advice, like that By David A. Keene coming from most Democrats today, is to blame the current incumbent hat so many of the nation’s in the White House for the problem. leading Democrats believe From now on, she urges, everyone President Trump poses a must simply accept the fact that we greater threat to world peace will have to live with a rogue regime than the mad dog leader of headed by an irrational madman a nuclearized North Korea capable of inflicting catastrophic says more about them than either the destruction on this country if he gets Tpresident or Kim Jong-un. up on the wrong side of his bed one Take Democratic National Commit- morning. Mr. Trump, most Americans tee Deputy Chairman and Minnesota and even nations like China and Rus-

TMENT Rep. Keith Ellison who, in a speech last sia view that as unacceptable.

AR week urging his leftist followers to “re- The president’s rhetoric, echoing ignite” a grass-roots anti-war move- President Harry Truman’s to the Japa-

Y D EP ment, contended that the North Korean nese before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, C A dictator has acted more “responsibly” seems calculated to re-establish the

VOC in recent days than Mr. Trump. Even credibility of a U.S. willingness to use though Mr. Ellison later told a reporter military force when our vital national that he “wished” he hadn’t said what interests are at stake. His words aren’t he did — not because it wasn’t true likely meant for the lunatic governing but because his words could be used North Korea, but his Chinese neigh-

TON TIME S AD TON against him — one suspects he actually bors who, if they actually believe Mr. believes the president he despises is Trump is serious, have the ability worse than a tyrant who says he’s like to restrain Pyongyang — something ASH IN G to incinerate us. President Obama was never able to As Mr. Ellison spoke, tens of thou- get them to do.

Y T H E W sands of North Korean soldiers were It’s a dangerous, high-stakes game, marching in the streets of Pyongyang but Mr. Trump and his advisers know in a show of support for their crazed they have to play as best they can the AR E D B leader who was once again warning bad hand dealt them as a result of that he can “reduce the U.S. mainland failed policies while ignoring advice

T P R EP to ashes at any moment.” Perhaps, from the architects of failure urging

TON TIME S TON though, he might only launch against them to simply throw in their hand. the U.S. airbase in Guam or some Earlier this month, the United other target that will allow him to Nations Security Council voted ASH IN G kill Americans, or decide to finally go unanimously to put in place new sanc- after his enemies in Seoul or Tokyo tions on North Korea. In her CNN A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| for wherever else he fears they might interview, Ms. Rice actually blamed be hiding. It’s a dangerous, high-stakes game, but Mr. Trump the U.N. move, coupled with mili- If it were just Mr. Ellison siding tary exercises, for the confrontation. with the North Korean dictator, it and his advisers know they have to play as best they While some play the blame game, the might be possible to dismiss the man can the bad hand dealt them as a result of failed president is left with responsibility of t 31 • 2017 as a fool. If that were the case, one policies while ignoring advice from the architects of dealing with the fallout — hopefully, would expect other leading Demo- just the political kind. crats to demand that he resign his failure urging them to simply throw in their hand. party post and apologize not just to David A. Keene is editor at large at The the president of the United States, but Washington Times. This article first pub- to the American people as a whole her boss’ attempts to keep North Korea both nuclear and missile. That’s a lished online in The Washington Times

Thursday • A ugus Thursday — or at least to the people of Guam — from going nuclear could be fairly very unfortunate outcome, but we are Commentary section on Aug. 14, 2017. who have a far less sanguine view of characterized as a “failure,” now says we where we are.” 20 those threats from Pyongyang. Don’t “can live with a nuclear North Korea.” Ms. Rice also wrote a commentary The other North Korean threat The rogue nation’s satellites could be equipped to deliver an EMP attack

By William R. Graham that approach the United States over to complete preparations for a satellite of national defense, at any moment!” and Peter Vincent Pry the North Polar region. But current launch as soon as possible” amid “the An earlier generation immediately U.S. BMD systems are not arranged enemies’ harsh sanctions and moves understood the alarming strategic fter massive intelligence to defend against even a single ICBM to stifle” the North. The North Korean significance of Sputnik in 1957, herald- failures grossly underesti- that approaches the United States from press asserts readiness for “any form ing the nuclear missile and space race, mating North Korea’s long- over the South Polar region, which of war,” including their satellite with yet few today understand or even care range missile capabilities, is the direction toward which North “strengthening of the nuclear deterrent about the strategic significance of North number of nuclear weap- Korea launches its satellites. … This is and legitimate artificial satellite launch, Korea’s satellites, consistent with a ons, warhead miniaturiza- not a new idea. The Soviets pioneered which are our fair-and-square self-de- widespread ignorance about an EMP. tion, and proximity to manufacturing and tested just such a specific capabil- fensive choice.” aA hydrogen bomb, the biggest North ity decades ago — we call it Korean threat to the United States a Fractional Orbital Bom- remains unacknowledged. North Korea bardment System (FOBS). has two satellites in orbit, and more to … So, North Korea doesn’t follow, that could be nuclear-armed for need an ICBM to create this a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse existential threat. It could (EMP) attack that would black out use its demonstrated satellite North America for months to years, kill- launcher to carry a nuclear ing millions. weapon over the South Polar An EMP attack doesn’t require accu- region and detonate it … over rate guidance systems because the area the United States to create a of effect, having a radius of hundreds of high-altitude electromagnetic miles, is very large. No re-entry vehicle pulse. … The result could be is needed because the warhead deto- to shut down the U.S. electric nates at a high altitude, above the atmo- power grid for an indefinite sphere. This point appears to be beyond period, leading to the death the comprehension of most, including within a year of up to 90 per- A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT secretaries of defense, the military cent of all Americans — as leadership and the usual “experts” who the EMP Commission testi- appear in the press. fied over eight years ago.” The design of a super-EMP weapon Former NASA rocket could be relatively small and light- scientist James Oberg visited weight, resembling the U.S. W-79 North Korea’s Sohae space Enhanced Radiation Warhead nuclear launch base, witnessed artillery shell of the 1980s, designed in elaborate measures under- the 1950s. Such a device could fit inside taken to conceal space launch North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 payloads, and concludes in (KMS-3) and Kwangmyongsong-4 a 2017 article that the EMP (KMS-4) satellites and pose a potential threat from North Korea’s EMP threat to every nation on Earth. satellites should be taken seri- Two Russian generals warned the ously: “There have been fears EMP Commission in 2004 that Russia’s expressed that North Korea super-EMP warhead design was trans- might use a satellite to carry ferred accidentally to North Korea. a small nuclear warhead into North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 orbit and then detonate it over satellites were launched to the south the United States for an EMP THE WASHINGTON TIMES on polar trajectories and passed over strike. These concerns seem the United States on their first orbit. extreme and require an astro- The south polar trajectory evades U.S. nomical scale of irrationality ballistic missile early-warning radars on the part of the regime. The and national missile defenses, making most frightening aspect, I’ve the satellites resemble a Russian secret come to realize, is that exactly weapon developed during the Cold War such a scale of insanity is now called the Fractional Orbital Bombard- evident in the rest of their | ment System (FOBS) that would have ‘space program.’” ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS Thursday • A ugus used a nuclear-armed satellite to make a That doomsday scenario, surprise EMP attack. it now seems, is plausible Ambassador Henry Cooper, former enough to compel the United States to Moreover: “The nuclear weapons William R. Graham is chairman of the director of the U.S. Strategic Defense take active measures to ensure that no we possess are, precisely, the country’s congressional EMP Commission, and Initiative, and a pre-eminent expert on North Korean satellite, unless thor- sovereignty, right to live and dignity. served as President Reagan’s White missile defenses and space weapons, oughly inspected before launch, be Our satellite that cleaves through space House science adviser and adminis-

has written numerous articles warning allowed to reach orbit and ever overfly is the proud sign that unfolds the future trator of NASA. Peter Vincent Pry is t 31 • 2017 about the potential North Korean EMP the United States. of the most powerful state in the world.” chief of staff of the congressional EMP threat from their satellites. Kim Jong-un has threatened to The same article, like many others, Commission and served in the House On Sept. 20, 2016, Mr. Cooper reduce the United States to “ashes” with warns North Korea is making “constant Armed Services Committee and the wrote: “U.S. ballistic missile defense “nuclear thunderbolts” and to retaliate preparations so that we can fire the CIA. This article first published on- (BMD) interceptors are designed to for U.S. diplomatic and military pres- nuclear warheads, which have been line in The Washington Times Com- intercept a few North Korean ICBMs sure by “ordering officials and scientists deployed for actual warfare for the sake mentary section on Aug. 15, 2017. 21 In search of a grand U.S. strategy Anti-extremists should hang together while Trump’s advisers construct it

By Clifford D. May sponsor of team” — room Are Mr. Trump’s advisers up to this task? jihadi terrorism. to grow, enslave I don’t know and, truth be told, they don’t, ichard Nixon’s rapproche- I could and slaughter. either. ment with China, the end go on, but it In return Given the enormity of these challenges, of the Cold War, President should by now for peace in it would be nice if Americans were hanging Obama’s outreach to “the be apparent his time (i.e., together. Instead, we are living in what Muslim world,” the growth that it’s insuf- so long as he social historian Pankaj Mishra has called of the (largely American- ficient for the occupied the the Age of Anger, much of it directed less at funded) United Nations — weren’t United States Oval Office), he foreign enemies than fellow Americans. Rsuch developments supposed to lead to to sit back and promised Iran’s Radical identitarians on both the left and a safer world, one in which the “inter- wait for the theocrats a key the right are setting us against one another. national community” would embrace arc of history to the nuclear Islamic supremacists, white supremacists, “universal values” and pursue common to bend. Nor weapons the black-shirted “Antifa” and others who interests — peace and security key is the answer kingdom within incite and/or employ violence should be among them? to play global a decade or so vigorously opposed by everyone who em- Those who thought so were, to put whack-a-mole. — even if they braces American values — whatever their it kindly, credulous. “Conflicts within To defend fail to moderate other policy or ideological disagreements. and between societies have occurred since American lives which, in case Mr. Trump was not wrong to attempt to the dawn of civilization,” Henry Kissinger and liberties you’re wonder- draw attention to this immoral equivalence. has observed. I’m betting that will hold — the central ing, they won’t. But his timing could hardly have been true until the sunset of civilization which, purpose of the And, as worse. In Charlottesville on Saturday, the unless we’re careful, could be around the government recent news anger turned lethal. A young woman was proverbial corner. Consider just a few of the — we need has made vivid, murdered by a white supremacist employ- threats America now faces. not only sound he did nothing ing jihadist-terrorist tactics. Little reported: North Korea is ruled by a dynastic dicta- strategies vis- ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS while North He was the member of a cohort that had tor whose psyche we can’t begin to fathom a-vis specific Korea’s nuclear been chanting. “White Shariah, now!” and who has acquired nuclear weapons threats but also a grand strategy designed to capabilities went critical. He might at least Ivanka Trump, Attorney General Jeff and increasingly sophisticated missiles to address the entire threat matrix. have invested in a comprehensive missile Sessions, Vice President Mike Pence and

TMENT deliver them to targets of his choosing. Why don’t we have that? Following the defense system. That interested him not at Gen. McMaster denounced those respon-

AR Iran’s rulers combine medieval jihadism attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George all. sible by name and without equivocation. with even more ancient Persian imperial- W. Bush launched a Global War on Terror- So what’s the plan now? There isn’t one, Had Mr. Trump not waited so long to join

Y D EP ism. They continue to chant “Death to ism. Its conceptual flaw: It failed to name or but President Trump’s national security them, he would have deprived his enemies C A America!” notwithstanding their promise comprehend America’s enemies. Terrorism adviser, H.R. McMaster, and his deputies, of ammunition and the opportunity to

VOC to delay development of the most efficient is merely a weapon those enemies find are working on it, in close consultation further distract from his urgent national means to that end. useful. with Secretary of Defense James Mattis and security agenda. China’s communist rulers have both President Obama attacked al Qaeda (a Chief of Staff John Kelly. Only the credulous believe the many regional and global ambitions. Russia is still-dangerous organization) but, beyond That Mr. Trump has assigned this task “conflicts within and between societies” ruled by a revanchist czar-commissar who that, seemed to think America has no to military men gives me some comfort. can be resolved anytime soon. But strategiz-

TON TIME S AD TON intends to restore what he can of the Rus- enemies — just friends waiting for their First, because military men are accustomed ing to solve them and bringing together sian empire. legitimate grievances to be addressed by to taking on missions and accomplishing anti-extremists to work cooperatively — Meanwhile, various non-state actors, someone with his unique multicultural them. Second, because they tend not to surely that should not lie beyond the realm ASH IN G motivated by ideologies rooted in Islamist sensitivities. say, “There is no military solution,” thereby of the possible. theology, conspire to destroy America both He had no plan for the day after the fall removing from the deck the highest card

Y T H E W from without and within. of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. His re-set the U.S. possesses. They understand there Clifford D. May is president of the These threats may appear distinct but, in with Russia, complete with toy button, was is no solution that is only military — a Foundation for Defense of Democracies fact, they are intertwined. China supports a joke and his “pivot” to Asia was unseri- very different concept. All instruments of and a columnist for The Washington AR E D B North Korea. Russia supports Iran. Iran and ous. He withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq American power, military, cyber, economic Times. This article first published on- North Korea cooperate on missile pro- and refused to support non-Islamist rebels and diplomatic, are necessary to achieve line in The Washington Times Com- T P R EP grams and, you may safely bet, on nuclear in Syria, thereby giving the Islamic State solutions — not to be confused with quick mentary section on Aug. 15, 2017.

TON TIME S TON weapons as well. Iran is the leading state — which he initially dismissed as a “JV fixes. ASH IN G A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| ‘Juche’ or consequences Its ideological commitment to nuclear weapons means North Korea

t 31 • 2017 will never disarm peacefully By Jed Babbin paranoia and belligerence. But the Kim regime’s total immersion in Because Kim Jong-un and his generals juche has consequences. One direct con- “Juche” — the ideology of North Korea are the most fervent believers in it, juche sequence is the crisis President Trump is — compels unquestioned obedience to drives their regime to develop nuclear facing, which results from juche-propelled the “supreme leader,” who is exalted as the weapons and ballistic missiles to threaten threats made serious by Mr. Kim’s ability to

Thursday • A ugus Thursday greatest source of political thought. It is the United States and its allies. North deliver on them. enforced by fear and murder even among Korea’s ideology is undisturbed by interna- 22 the elite and accounts for the Kim regime’s tional sanctions. » see BABBIN | C23 Toward a more muscular missile defense There is no excuse for an inadequate anti-missile shield

missile. The bad news? The system isn’t as missile-defense system we have capable of missile-defense technologies. Some of capable as it could or should be. Fortu- shooting down long-range ballistic missiles these technologies were scaled back under nately, we can do something about that. headed for the U.S. homeland. President Obama, but the current situation First, though, let’s look at what North The U.S. GMD system is the only with North Korea strongly suggests it’s time Korea has, and what kind of missile defense one we have capable of intercepting an to change that. we have right now. intercontinental ballistic missile in the Of course, North Korea isn’t the only North Korea boasts a very active mid-course phase of its flight. The United threat out there. Its saber-rattling rhetoric nuclear-weapons program. The country States currently deploys four interceptors often draws the most attention, but Iran has faced decades of sanctions, and the in California and 32 in Alaska. If all goes also has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles, communist leaders in Pyongyang have according to plan, those 36 will increase to and its nuclear program is quite active. And inflicted an enormous economic toll on its 44 by the end of this year. Russia and China have plenty of ballistic population. Yet North Korea has continued We also have systems capable of shoot- missiles on hand. The need for a more to develop long-range ballistic missiles for a ing down shorter-range missiles, as well as robust U.S. missile defense becomes more long time. our sea-based Aegis system. Aegis can tar- pressing all the time. Its goal, as missile-defense expert Mi- get short- and intermediate-range ballistic We’ve come a long way from the days chaela Dodge reminds us in a new paper, is missiles. But with the threat of longer-range of Mutually Assured Destruction. The apparently to threaten the U.S. homeland. It destruction from Pyongyang and elsewhere Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty tied our By Ed Feulner is already capable of threatening U.S. allies growing, it’s time to focus on how we can hands for three decades. We’ve beefed n air of fatalism surrounds in South Korea and Japan, as well as Ameri- increase the amount of protection we have. up our missile defenses quite a bit much of the coverage of can forces stationed in those countries. Increasing the number of interceptors in since then, but much more needs to be the escalating tensions Such a situation is clearly untenable. our GMD system certainly leads the list. As done. between North Korea “It is increasingly obvious,” Ms. Dodge Ms. Dodge notes, 44 should be a minimum There are plenty of places in the and the United States. If writes, “that the Kim Jong-Un regime will number. But the current budgetary plan federal budget where we can cut. But Pyongyang launched a not voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons doesn’t allow for us to maintain those 44 security isn’t one of them. It’s time to missile at us or at one of our allies, the program, which leaves the United States into the 2020s. We obviously need to al- make our missile-defense system more feelingA goes, we could do nothing but with an option to either be vulnerable to locate the necessary funds for that — and muscular. brace ourselves for catastrophic damage the whims of an unpredictable totalitarian sooner rather than later. A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT and loss of life. dictatorship or find ways to defend its way But that’s not enough. We also should Ed Feulner is founder of the Heri- Which makes this a good time to ask: of life as well as its allies.” invest in space-based interceptors (which tage Foundation (heritage.org). What’s the state of our missile defense? That defense rests in large measure are far better equipped to shoot down This article first published online The good news, we have a system in on a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missiles in their initial “boost” phase, when in The Washington Times Com- place. We could shoot down an incoming (GMD) system, which remains the only they are moving more slowly) and in future mentary section on Aug. 15, 2017.

on Atlanta or Chicago. against the incoming missiles. This would devoid of value. We have to recognize that BABBIN The president rightly has taken a very begin an extraordinarily bloody war that North Korea isn’t going to be disarmed of From page C22 tough tone. He has tweeted that a military North Korea would lose. its nuclear weapons and ICBMs peacefully. solution to North Korea was locked and The North Koreans have perhaps 10,000 By now it must be clear to all who aren’t North Korea chose to launch a ballistic loaded. Defense Secretary James Mattis has artillery pieces and missiles, dug in on their willfully blind that China isn’t going to missile on July 4, an American holiday, to warned the Kim regime that it could well southern border aimed at Seoul, South (and may not be able to) restrain Mr. Kim’s demonstrate its contempt for America. be destroyed if it attacked us. The deterrent Korea’s capital city. A large percentage of regime from continuing its aggressive That missile had the capability of reaching effect of these statements will be measured the 26 million people living in and around behavior. parts of the United States. It launched an- over the next few weeks. Mr. Kim values his Seoul would probably die in the war’s first Mr. Trump should consult secretly other on July 30, which had an even longer life more than anything else, so the presi- days. with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He estimated range. dent’s and Mr. Mattis’ words might have the We have no desire for such a war but should make clear that we must impose THE WASHINGTON TIMES Intelligence estimates say that the Kim desired deterrent effect. will have to fight if attacked. But what if Mr. regime change in North Korea and disarm regime has developed nuclear weapons We are in a crisis akin to the Cuban Mis- Kim decides not to shoot, at least at this it verifiably. He should offer to cooperate small enough to fit atop one of its ballistic sile Crisis of 1962 with one important dif- point? with China and make it clear that we don’t missiles. Though it’s unclear whether they ference. Neither President John F. Kennedy China, meaning to deter an American intend to use the situation to reunify the have developed re-entry vehicles capable nor Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev pre-emptive attack, has warned the United Koreas, which would be intolerable to the of delivering a nuclear attack on America, wanted a nuclear war. Mr. Kim and his re- States that they would stay neutral if Mr. Chinese. they will soon if they haven’t already. gime are different because of their ideology, Kim fired the first shots but not, it implies, If Kim Jong-un and juche both die, there Now the Kim regime has directly threat- recklessness and infatuation with nuclear otherwise. is a chance to disarm North Korea without | ened Guam with the launch of missiles that weapons. It is both illogical and contrary to Any pre-emptive attack would be an millions of casualties. The only alternative Thursday • A ugus would intentionally miss it by a few miles the facts to equate the threats of China’s or enormous risk. Unless we knocked out is an horrific war. creating a “ring of fire” around the island. Russia’s nuclear weapons and missiles with both the Kim regime and its artillery and Guam is the home to about 160,000 the threat posed by North Korea’s. missiles on the border at the same time, Jed Babbin served as a deputy un- people. Those born on the island are U.S. If Mr. Kim chooses to launch missiles pre-emption would fail. dersecretary of defense in the George citizens. Andersen Air Force Base, and a at Guam, several things would happen President Trump has greatly confused H.W. Bush administration. He is a se- nearby naval base, take up a considerable in rapid sequence. We, in Guam, and matters by combining his tough-sounding nior fellow of the London Center for

portion of the island. American strategic the Japanese in their nation, have Patriot tweets with a statement that he would Policy Research and the author of five t 31 • 2017 weapons, including recently arrived B-1 and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense consider negotiations with the Kim regime. books including “In the Words of Our nuclear-capable bombers, are based there. (THAAD) — anti-missile missile — batter- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has added Enemies.” This article first published A North Korean launch at Guam would ies. Mr. Kim’s missiles would have to pass to the confusion by saying that we don’t aim online in The Washington Times Com- be an act of war. Because Guam is part of over Japan to reach Guam. The Japanese for regime change in North Korea. mentary section on Aug. 15, 2017. America, we would defend against it and will try to shoot them down. Our THAAD Those who say there’s no easy solution respond to the attack as if it were an attack batteries in Guam would certainly fire to this crisis are correct, but such counsel is 23 Reliving the nuclear worry The North Korean threat awakens past fears By Thomas V. DiBacco

ntelligence reports to the effect that North Korea has produced a miniature nuclear warhead that can be placed inside its missiles jolts the historian to relive a past that most Americans don’t recall. It was on Aug. 22, 1953, that the Soviet Union Idetonated its first hydrogen bomb. Like most Augusts in the nation’s capital, the summer heat had driven officialdom from the city. As one newspaper put it: “There was a minimum of official comment, with President [Dwight] Eisenhower and most lawmakers out of town on vacation, and no sign that there would be any immedi- ate change in United States policy.” Still, debate soon raged in the press and on Capitol Hill about what America should do as a result of the Soviets getting the H-bomb. Some analysts suggested a no-worry stance on the grounds that the Soviets didn’t have the wherewithal actu- ally to deliver a bomb to a faraway target. Others suggested boosting research and weaponry, and still others, such as Sen. Charles Potter, Michigan Republican, pointed the blame finger: Soviet technol-

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VOC increased military spending, but $30 billion for the building of fallout shelters in the event of a nuclear attack. Called the Gaither Report, after its chairman, H. Rowan Gaither, head of the Ford Foun-

TON TIME S AD TON dation, Ike’s administration paid little heed, in part, because the U-2 spy planes indicated that Soviet nuclear progress ASH IN G appeared minimal. If all this has a familiar ring in view of

Y T H E W the current North Korean threat, there is a notable difference: Fallout shelters by private Americans were being built, The Washington Times AR E D B encouraged in part by the little-known Federal Civil Defense Administration cre- One needed thick concrete, depth, venti- as, for example, on the cover of Life maga- remaining nuclear submarine, the USS

T P R EP ated during Ike’s years. I was a teenager lation, power, water, sanitation and food. zine on Jan. 12, 1962, but after the Cuban Sawfish, picks up a Morse code signal

TON TIME S TON growing up in Florida at the time and And even in the best of nuclear circum- missile crisis was eased later that year, emanating from the West Coast of the recall drills my school had in the event stances, exit from the shelter could be for the nuclear worry faded. Also getting United States. of a nuclear attack. And a couple of my only short periods — a few hours at most. publicity was the really big federal shelter So the submarine ventures to San ASH IN G friends’ parents had shelters of sorts that And not until, it was estimated, at least in Greenbrier, West Virginia, designed Francisco, then San Diego, and no life wouldn’t pass muster because the Sun- two weeks had passed after an attack. to hold all members of Congress — and could be detected. The rest of the film A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| shine State’s sandy, watery soil prevented But the $30 billion for public and about which secrecy still abounds. is predictable. All die, by suicide or building an underground retreat. private shelters that the Gaither Report Authors and movie makers trying radiation. President John F. Kennedy, more so had recommended didn’t materialize. to bring home the relevance of nuclear The film lost $700,000 — a big sum in than Ike, encouraged the building of more Congress only appropriated $169 billion catastrophe found an unreceptive audi- those days — with audiences unmoved by shelters. “We owe that kind of insurance of the $209 billion that JFK had urged, ence, as illustrated by the film, “On the the likelihood of such a catastrophe. Yet t 31 • 2017 to our families and our country,” JFK and much of that money was spent not Beach,” based on the book by Nevil Shute it had a moral, as one critic wrote: “ ‘On said on Oct. 6, 1961. “The time to start is on cities where bombs, it was believed, and released in 1959. Directed by Stanley the Beach’ should be required viewing for now. In the coming months, I hope to let would destroy virtually everyone, but in Kramer with a star-studded cast — Greg- every politician who takes an oath of of- every citizen know what steps he can take rural areas. Some stand today as monu- ory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and fice, the globe around, just to be certain.” without delay to protect his family in case ments to futility, such as the one in Los Anthony Perkins — the movie dealt with of attack. I know you would not want to Altos, Calif., near San Francisco. Some 15 the few remaining survivors of nuclear Thomas V. DiBacco is professor emeritus

Thursday • A ugus Thursday do less.” feet deep, the shelter was 25 by 48 feet, war in 1964. They’re in Australia, where at American University. This article first Of course, even a fallout shelter, it was designed to accommodate 96 people. in a few months radiation clouds will published online in The Washington Times 24 soon reckoned, was an implausible resort. The shelter effort got some publicity eventually reach them. There the last Commentary section on Aug. 9, 2017. Countering bombast from North Korea ‘The regime’s actions will continue to be overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates’

By Donald Lambro leaving the Trump reservation on foreign policy, Mr. Tillerson maintained that he escalating exchange of “what the president was just reaffirming nuclear threats between is that the United States has the capabil- North Korea and the United ity to fully defend itself from any attack States has pushed us closer to and our allies, and we will do so.” the brink of war. “So … what the president is doing Recent classified reports is sending a strong message to North by U.S. intelligence, based on spy satellite Korea in language that Kim Jong-un Tsurveillance, now reveals that the Com- would understand, because he doesn’t munist nation has successfully developed a seem to understand diplomatic lan- miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be guage,” he said. fitted on top of an intercontinental ballistic Soon after Mr. Tillerson’s remarks, missile capable of reaching our country. Mr. Trump reinforced his warning North Korea, punished by a severe to Pyongyang in a Twitter post with new round of U.S.-led economic sanctions, another not-so-veiled warning about the approved this week by the U.N. Security new and much improved U.S. nuclear Council, described the action as an attempt weapons arsenal. to bring down its country. “My first order as president was to reno- Especially the ban on exports that pro- vate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It vide up to a third of North Korea’s yearly $3 is now far stronger and more powerful than billion in earnings. ever before,” he said. Such sanctions, the government said, In another statement, Defense Secretary were an attempt “to strangle a nation,” Jim Mattis also sent a blunt message to warning the U.S. that “physical action will North Korea Wednesday, urging its govern- be taken mercilessly with the mobilization ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER ment to “stop any action that would lead to A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT of all its national strength.” the end of its regime.” President Trump, on a 17-day working 38th Parallel,” he said last week. down President Trump’s incendiary warn- He added, “The regime’s actions will vacation at his golf course in Bedminster, “We are trying to convey to the North ing to North Korea Wednesday, saying he continue to be overmatched by ours and N.J., shot back a fiery reply Tuesday [Aug. Koreans: We are not your enemy, we are was just trying to send a strong message in would lose any arms race or conflict it 8], warning North Korea that it would face not your threat,” he added. language its leader would understand,” the initiates.” a devastating response if it continued to Mr. Tillerson’s calm-the-waters state- news service said. Meantime, it is interesting that through- threaten the U.S. ment was widely credited for clearing the While Mr. Trump was telling Mr. Kim out this war of words with North Korea, “They will be met with fire and fury and way for both China and Russia to embrace that if he wanted a fight, the U.S. was ready there has been no mention of our anti- frankly power, the likes of which this world the sanctions, though it had no effect on to give him one, Mr. Tillerson was singing a ballistic missile arsenal that can destroy has never seen before,” he said. Kim. different tune. any incoming ICBMs before they can strike Before this exchange took place, Mr. But maybe Mr. Tillerson’s remarks were Speaking to reporters shortly before their target. Trump’s secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, really aimed at an end-run around Mr. landing in Guam, the U.S. Pacific island Kim Jong-un better think long and hard attempted to defuse the deepening conflict Trump in a vain attempt to send a more territory Pyongyang threatens to strike, about that before he makes another boastful by sending a remarkable peace offering to diplomatic message to the North Korean Mr. Tillerson said he did not believe “there claim about his military superiority. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. leader. was an imminent threat from North Korea,” “We do not seek a regime change, The Reuters news agency’s lead story Reuters reported. Donald Lambro is a syndicated colum- we do not seek a collapse of the regime, Wednesday on Mr. Trump’s blistering “I think Americans should sleep well at nist and contributor to The Washington we do not seek an accelerated reunifica- warning to Mr. Kim suggested that was the night, have no concerns about this particu- Times. This article first published in The tion of the peninsula, we do not seek an case: lar rhetoric of the last few days,” he said. Washington Times Commentary section THE WASHINGTON TIMES excuse to send our military north of the “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson played But in case anyone assumed he was on Aug. 10, 2017. The South Pacific’s strategic role |

By Erik M. Jacobs far-off atolls and islands of the South Pacific, a new front has opened up in the Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Thursday • A ugus Pacific must not be forgotten. Pacific’s strategic framework: the South Atoll. Kwajalein Atoll. Guam. Saipan. On the campaign trail, President Trump Pacific. • Invest in more defense capabilities in These names are familiar as criti- often stated that he was committed to In order to ensure that the U.S. main- U.S. Pacific territories and partner states. cal battlefields in World War II which expanding the size of the U.S. Navy and tains its position as the pre-eminent Pacific • Consider re-establishing a U.S. Navy helped turn the tide of the war and restoring American military power should superpower and maintains its ability to presence on American Samoa for the first ensure American victory in the Pacific. he be elected president. defend its island territories and the West time since the closure of U.S. Navy Station

Although much of American strategic With the growing threat of long- Coast, Mr. Trump should consider targeted Tutila in 1951. t 31 • 2017 focus in the Pacific focuses on China, range ballistic missile launches from strategic investment in the region. By con- As recent missile defense tests have North Korea, Continental Asia, and the North Korea, intelligence reports that sidering these three actions, the administra- shown, the Reagan Missile Defense Site is “first island chain” comprising of Japan, Pyongyang has miniaturized a nuclear tion can ensure America’s positioning in the able to counter various ICBM threats to the Taiwan, and the Philippines, the geo- weapon, and concerns about China’s region remains strong: United States, but as North Korea continues strategic importance of strengthening continued push to expand its naval capacity • Continue to modernize and consider and maintaining American power in the while waging a war of influence across the expanding the Ronald Reagan Ballistic » see JACOBS | C26 25 A superstar in Donald Trump’s Cabinet With grit and charm, Nikki Haley won the votes for North Korean sanctions

By Suzanne Fields patron. “It’s reckless. It’s irresponsible, and the international community really laid onald Trump has a skill for down the groundwork of saying, ‘We’re not recruiting Cabinet officers going to watch you do this any more.’ ” he has treated badly. Serv- The prospect of pocketbook pain is ing in his administration always persuasive, and North Korea’s blus- can require selfless devo- tery response arrived as if on cue. “North tion to duty. Jeff Sessions, Korea will make the U.S. pay dearly for all the attorney general, could tell you the heinous crime it commits against the Dabout that. So could Nikki Haley, the state and the people of this country,” the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations state media warned. Military intelligence who is swiftly becoming the Cabinet services reported that North Korea was superstar. moving anti-missile ships into position off She took the lead in persuading China its eastern coast in anticipation of action. and Russia to join the sanctioning of North “They’re going to threaten,” Mrs. Haley Korea, all to persuade Kim Jong-un to think says of the bluster, “but we’re not going to again about his boastful threat to ignite run scared from them. Our job is to defend World War III. not just the United States, but our allies. We Such a catastrophe might at last be “the have to protect our friends, and we’re going war to end war,” as Woodrow Wilson said to continue to do that. China stepped up ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER of World War I. Mr. Kim’s reckless exuber- and said, ‘We will follow through on these ance with his nuclear toys has terrified the sanctions.’ And now we have to just stay on with other delegations, particularly those to follow the siren call of the angriest world into a new reality, and Nikki Haley them to make sure they do that.” of America’s European allies. Over the voices. We must resist that temptation.” used it to win approval of United Nations This is not the kind of talk the rest of first months of her tenure she earned the Mr. Trump unleashed a Twitter attack. Resolution 2371, which she calls “the single the world is accustomed to hearing from respect of other delegates that enabled her “The people of South Carolina are embar- largest economic package ever leveled the American ambassador to the United to rally support for American positions on rassed by Nikki Haley!” he tweeted angrily. against the North Korean regime” and Nations. Mrs. Haley reported for duty at a Syria as well as North Korea. But that was forgotten by both of them “the most stringent set of sanctions on any United Nations puzzled and despondent Her frequent and aggressive scolding of when Mr. Trump assembled his Cabinet.

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AR If enforced to the limit — a big “if” regarded her as a patronage payoff by the in Syria earned her a reputation for leading, speak up, even to him. She learned in South — the effects could reduce Pyongyang’s new president, and would finish her term as well as following, American policy. She Carolina, as only a governor can, how to

Y D EP exports by $3 billion, a third of its revenue at the U.N. with just another entry on her squelched the long-standing Russian goal of twist arms to rally support. C A from exports of coal and minerals, which in resume and leave for the speaking circuit to making Russia the moral actor in the Syrian Someone asked her the other day

VOC turn is key to keeping its nuclear and mis- cash in on political celebrity. “No one at the civil war. She still won Russian support for whether she had to twist arms to bring Rus- sile scientists at work. United Nations,” said one professor pundit, the sanctions vote. sia and China along on the sanctions vote. “The international community is stand- “will think Nikki Haley is someone to talk Little more than a year ago she seemed She replied with one word: “Lots.” ing with one voice,” Mrs. Haley says. “China to who will be either knowledgeable or unlikely to be a part of a Trump adminis- didn’t pull off. Russia didn’t pull off. All of close to the president.” tration. She clashed with Mr. Trump the Suzanne Fields is a columnist for The

TON TIME S AD TON the Security Council and the international The professor missed by only a mile. candidate on the eve of the South Carolina Washington Times and is nationally syn- community said, ‘That’s enough.’ ” Mr. Perhaps buoyed on such modest expec- primary, having endorsed Mario Rubio, and dicated. This article first published online Kim’s provocations have exhausted the tations, she has prospered at the U.N., said sharp things about Mr. Trump. “During in The Washington Times Commentary ASH IN G patience even of China, his enabler and working hard to build close relationships anxious times,” she said, “it can be tempting section on Aug. 9, 2017. Y T H E W

such as Palau and the Marshall Islands. nations as a part of the Office of Insular only continue to grow in strategic impor- AR E D B JACOBS As some of U.S. Forces Japan begin a Affairs. tance. Overlooked as part of the Obama From page C25 transition from Okinawa to Guam in the Strategic investment in existing defense administration’s “pivot” to Asia, strength- T P R EP coming years, the U.S. military should infrastructure is in line with current De- ening U.S. presence in American Samoa

TON TIME S TON to expand its capabilities and develop new consider evaluating infrastructure on partment of Defense policy and is another would be a strong message that Washington technology, the U.S. must show that its Guam as another way to expand its Pacific way in which Mr. Trump can expand the is committed to an effective transfer of ability to intercept missiles in the Pacific is infrastructure. A good way to do this would purview of the U.S. military in the Pacific its naval resources to the Pacific. ASH IN G unquestionable. be to invite Japanese forces to the island in to counter emerging challenges while also Small and targeted strategic invest- Evaluating, modernizing, and expanding a way to expand growing goodwill between building goodwill across the region as ment in the South Pacific will not only A L R EPO A S PECI T H E W

| U.S. missile infrastructure across the Pacific the U.S. military and the Japanese Self- China expands its foreign direct investment. show the U.S. commitment to its stra- at sites like those like the Reagan Missile Defense Forces. Yet another way to address American tegic value, it will ensure that the U.S. Defense Site is a way for the administration At the same time, cooperation on Guam interests in the South Pacific is by re-estab- is prepared to deal with current and to show its commitment to Pacific preemi- would provide a new venue for deeper lishing a U.S. Navy installation at American emerging threats across the broader nence and expanding U.S. military scope in training exercises and bilateral cooperation Samoa. Vice President Pence’s visit to the Asia-Pacific region. t 31 • 2017 the Pacific. at a time when Japan looks to expand its island territory in April following his suc- Such investment should not be limited defense role in conjunction with the United cessful Asia tour underscores the important Erik M. Jacobs is a student at George- to missile defense. States. strategic role that American Samoa can town University’s School of Foreign Ser- Washington’s strategic investment While not incorporated as a part of the play in U.S. Asia policy. vice. This article first published in The should include ways in which the military United States, island nations such as Palau, As China continues its military expan- Washington Times Commentary section can strengthen its positions in U.S. ter- the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia are sion and modernization and as President on Aug. 10, 2017.

Thursday • A ugus Thursday ritories such as Guam and the Northern in Compacts of Free Association with the Trump seeks to expand the capabilities of Mariana Islands while also deepening U.S. Under this agreement, the U.S. provides the U.S. Navy to restore traditional Ameri- 26 partnerships that it has with island nations financial assistance and defense to these can strategic power, the South Pacific will Armageddon postponed North Korea’s threats don’t seem to work with Donald Trump

Who provoked whom? viewed his statements as an invitation for standing up for the country and Mr. Kim added, “If the Yankees to adventurism. confronting one of the world’s most persist in their extremely dangerous Mr. Trump and his defense secre- unpredictable dictators. He probably reckless actions on the Korean Penin- tary, Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, won’t get any credit from the media, sula and in its vicinity, testing the self- took another approach, returning Mr. most Democrats, or the foreign policy restraint of the DPRK, the [North] will Kim’s rhetorical fire with rhetorical establishment, but our adversaries are make an impor- tant decision as it already declared,” meaning he might still order a strike against Guam, or put some missiles offshore to test American resolve. American By Cal Thomas resolve has been tested and has orth Korean dictator Kim prevailed, at least Jong-un appears to have for now. Mr. Kim blinked and President has lost face. His Trump can claim a foreign military leaders policy victory and justifi- and others will cation for his strategy. take notice, as Reminiscent of President Ronald will the rest of NReagan’s “peace through strength” the world. The approach to deterring adversaries, Mr. significance of the A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT Trump stood up to the blustering des- unanimous U.N. pot and forced him to back down from resolution impos- his threat to launch missiles at Guam. ing new sanctions China, North Korea’s biggest ally, no on North Korea, doubt played a role in getting Mr. Kim which included to change his mind, but primary credit the support of should go to the president. China, could not What a far cry from the policies of have been lost on the last several administrations. They Mr. Kim. favored diplomacy over confronta- New presi- tion, allowing North Korea (officially dents almost the Democratic People’s Republic always face a for- of Korea, or DPRK) to proceed with eign policy test. its clandestine nuclear program in Some pass, some exchange for empty promises. For- fail. John F. Ken- mer President Jimmy Carter, former nedy was judged New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and weak by Soviet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dictator Nikita were among those who visited North Khrushchev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Korea on various diplomatic missions. which many be- Mrs. Albright engaged in a champagne lieve precipitated toast with Mr. Kim’s father, Kim Jong- the Cuban missile il, after claiming success in getting the crisis in 1962. country to curtail its missile program. Iran believed We have seen the failure of that ap- press reports that proach and are witnessing the success Ronald Reagan of its opposite. was a “cowboy” |

Though Mr. Kim seems to have and dangerous, Thursday • A ugus backed down from launching missiles so they released ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS at Guam and touting his capability to American hos- strike targets on the U.S. mainland, he tages on the day has retained his overheated rhetoric. In of his inauguration in 1981. fire of their own. It worked, at least bound to take notice and perhaps ad- a case of the pot calling the kettle black, There is a time for diplomacy and a temporarily. Where to go from here just their view of the president in ways Mr. Kim warned the U.S., as reported time for displaying strength. President remains an open question, but the goal that benefit America.

by The Wall Street Journal, “to take Obama sent a signal to the world by remains the same. North Korea (and t 31 • 2017 into full account” whether the current setting a timetable for withdrawal of Iran) must never be allowed to develop Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated standoff was to its benefit. He added it U.S. troops from Afghanistan before nuclear weapons capable of reach- columnist. His latest book is “What Works: was incumbent on the U.S. to “stop at victory over the Taliban could be ing the United States or threatening Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger once arrogant provocations against the achieved. He apologized to the world America’s allies, including South Korea America” (Zondervan, 2014). This article first DPRK (North Korea) and unilateral for what he saw as America’s “arro- and Japan. published online in The Washington Times demands and not provoke it any longer.” gance.” Our enemies took notice and President Trump deserves credit Commentary section on Aug. 16, 2017. 27 TMENT AR Y D EP C A VOC

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