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Getting to “Yes” on Missile DefenseWASHINGTON, DC – The recent visit by Dmitry Rogozin, Special Envoy of the Russian President for Missile-Defense Cooperation with NATO, to the US State Department highlights one of the many obstacles to Russian-US cooperation on ballistic missile defense (BMD).
But the Obama administration cannot sign an agreement stating that it will deliberately constrain America’s ability to protect itself and its allies from foreign missile attacks.
Besides missile defense, topics could include non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons; reserve nuclear warheads that have been removed from operational arsenals, but have yet to be destroyed; and the placement of conventional munitions on strategic delivery vehicles, such as long-range ballistic missiles, that are normally used to carry nuclear warheads.
Support also exists for jointly manned centers, Russian expert visits to NATO BMD facilities, and exchange of early-warning information from Russian and NATO radars regarding potential missile launches.
And, as the Soviet nuclear arsenal grew, the US government ruled out defense against a missile attack: because it could not deflect every incoming nuclear explosive, it would be safer if neither side tried to build ballistic missile defenses.
In June 2006, William Perry, a former defense secretary, and Ashton Carter, a future one, argued in The Washington Post that if North Korea deployed on its territory a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the US, the US should attack and destroy it.
As the North Korean nuclear arsenal grows, the effectiveness of missile defense will diminish.
It also is important to understand how North Korea has succeeded in advancing its nuclear and missile programs as far as it has, despite decades of international efforts.
For this and other reasons, what the missile strikes accomplished should not be exaggerated.
It bears emphasizing that the missile strikes were not designed to undermine the Assad regime’s long-term prospects.
He made this clear when he announced the missile strikes: “America does not seek an indefinite presence in Syria under no circumstances,” he said.
The US is already taking measures to prevent North Korea from attacking it, or South Korea, through enhanced ballistic missile defense systems.
Last month, following North Korea’s second intercontinental ballistic missile test of the summer, the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to impose new and even stricter sanctions on the tiny country.
In three years of increasingly bloody conflict, the only diplomatic success was achieved when Assad believed that he faced US missile strikes.
The US public sharply rejected Obama’s planned missile strikes to punish Assad for the repeated use of chemical weapons, and a recent Pew poll indicates that a majority of Americans believe that the US “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.”
The Ghost of North KoreaTOKYO – At 7:39 a.m. on April 13, North Korea fired a missile (which it called a satellite launch) in the face of opposition from almost the entire international community.
The missile launch is believed to have been a legacy of Kim Jong-il, who fervently believed that the North’s survival required it to develop nuclear and biochemical weapons.
So the failed missile launch probably means that a resumption of nuclear testing is inevitable, following tests in 2006 and 2009.
Just as the North called the recent missile a “satellite,” an underground explosion caused by conventional explosives cannot be used as a bargaining chip unless it is called a “nuclear test.”
Because Korea remains the world's most heavily armed flash point and with the risk of nuclear weapons and missile proliferation still high in North Korea, the whole world may benefit from a loosening of tensions.
So long as the danger of nuclear and missile proliferation in North Korea remains, the peninsula will remain a potential source of conflict.
His fingerprints are everywhere to be seen, not only in the summit's events, but it now appears clear that he was fully behind the policy of engagement initiated by President Clinton and the Japanese government after North Korea test-fired a medium range ballistic missile in August 1998.
But it is vitally important to decouple the Korean peace process from Sino-American and Russo-American rivalries, particularly on the emerging hot button issues of national missile defense(NMD) and theatre missile defense(TMD) programs that America is contemplating.
Because China's role is rising, it is crucial that the US and China restore their strategic dialogue and cooperate by decoupling the North Korean missile issue from the fractious issue of missile defense.
Chinese leaders worry that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will undermine its security and disrupt the regional strategic balance, by monitoring flights and missile launches in Chinese territory.
If China devoted its energy to reining in its North Korean client, the threat confronting South Korea – and thus the South’s need for an advanced missile shield – might be mitigated.
Concerns in the security field look more serious, owing to disputes over the Iran nuclear agreement and uncertainty over the handling of North Korean missile launches.
More specifically, the question is whether it makes sense to move to a world of less nuclear offense and more missile defense.
He advocated a defense designed "to protect all 50 states and our friends and allies and deployed forces overseas from missile attacks by rogue nations or accidental launches."
Critics contend that a missile defense system will prompt Russia to refuse to reduce nuclear weapons and China to build more.
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