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The U.S. Position on South Korean Missiles Just Got Interesting
May 25, 2021
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics.
OPINION Last Friday, it was announced at the White House that the Biden administration had turned South Korea loose to develop whatever ballistic missiles it wants in response to North Korea’s recent testing surge of short-range, solid-propellant missiles.
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An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Dec. 17, 2019.Photo: Haley Stevens/U.S. Air ForceAn MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Dec. 17, 2019.Photo: Haley Stevens/U.S. Air Force
After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy
The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates.
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An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Dec. 17, 2019.Photo: Haley Stevens/U.S. Air ForceAn MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Dec. 17, 2019.Photo: Haley Stevens/U.S. Air Force
As talks continue in Vienna in a bid to resume the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago, foreign policy observers are also raising red flags about Tehran’s growing stockpile of conventional weapons.
By Hollie McKay | May 11, 2021 | 6:58pm EDT
An Iranian-made ballistic missile on display at the Holy Defense Museum in Tehran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As talks continue in Vienna in a bid to resume the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration three years ago, foreign policy observers are also raising red flags about Tehran’s expanding stockpile of conventional weapons.
In particular, the regime’s proliferation of ballistic missiles is seen as an increasing threat to America’s allies and interests in the volatile region.
Although Iran has for four decades been party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is not a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) or The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.