Welcome to the foundation of democrat sees. I know moat of you, i met a lot of you, glad youre here. Today marks the release of a major report, maximum pressure, 2. 0, a plan for north korea. The report offers an actionable and multifaceted plan focused on the denuclearization of north korea. Today north korea, we have a young, mercurial, brutal and ruthal despot kim jongun armed with missiles and hes using the threat on america and americas allies. You may have seen reports earlier in the week in the Washington Times that a highlevel defector from north korea sent a letter to President Trump. The defector warned the administration that kim jongun is unlikely to give up his Nuclear Weapons absent significant additional pressure. Consistent with the recommendations and ftds new report which will be discussed today, the defector urges allout sanctions and what our report authors Call Information and influence operations. We understand that people of good faith may disagree on the path fo
Foreign relations for a discussion on u. S. Policy toward syria and washington dc with live coverage here on cspan. Welcome. The executive director, Syrian Emergency Task force. We have the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for the middle east. Assistante the deputy secretary of state for affairs and special envoy for syria. Thank you to all four of you for being here today. Everything important in life i learned from two sources. Johnny cash and the United States military. The military as relevant today because when you look at complex thelems like syria, military breaks them down into strategic, operational, and technical tactical to try to understand. I thought we would have our conversation along the same lines, so i will start with a strategic question. As a nation, we have learned since 9 11 that militaries cannot win wars. Militaries can defeat other militaries, but it is up to the rest of the government, ngos, and others to actually win the peace. As you look at the complex
Secretary assistant secretary of state for International Security and proliferation, christopher ford. First put forth by iran and egypt in 1974 as a u. N. Resolution to be expanded to weapons of mass destruction in egypt, thefrom proposal has been discussed for many years. Cns has worked many years and we have publication on the zone issue. Most recently in november, 2018, the u. N. General assembly adopted a resolution asking the u. N. Secretarygeneral to convene a conference about weapons of mass destruction free zone starting from 2019 and continuing until there is a legal binding treaty. The first conference will be right now is being planned for november 2019 in new york, but the initiative has been received in the region with mixed results. We are very delighted that dr. Ford agreed to speak about it today. Let me introduce dr. Ford. Chris served as special assistant to the president and senior director of weapons of mass destruction at the nsc. And ased on capitol hill an intel
Glad you are here on the friday afternoon. Not that many people will do something on a friday afternoon so that shows you are serious people and i thank you for coming. My name is john henry, president of csis and i want to say a hearty welcome to all of you. We are in for a very unique opportunity. Assistant secretary stewart, this doesnt normally happen. When something is kind of a breaking, very serious development, we dont normally have the opportunity to hear from a senior policymaker in the state department or any place, to share with us the thinking of the government about a big development. And this is a big development. We are really very fortunate. I dont know, it was a week ago, 10 days ago . Jake sullivan in a press availability, made note that we think russia has put a Nuclear Device in orbit. Now i mean, for 50 years, we have had what are called rtgs. These are Power Sources that are used to provide electricity for satellites. There is a Nuclear Court to those. But this i
Cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im just dean in washington and we begin with breaking new cnn, his warned the Biden Administration has paused a shipment all of us made ammunition to israel it appears to be the first time the us has stumped a Weapon Shipment to the Israeli Military since the october 7 hamas attacks and it comes amid growing tensions between the us and israel over the war in gaza. And during highstakes negotiations to reach a potential ceasefire and hostage deal with lets get right over to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos here with us percival, what more are you learning about all this . Well, a source, it could not disclosed why the decision was made to pause this particular shipment. But two important points here, it is not linked to what is believed to israels potential Ground Invasion of rafah. Thats in the Southern Gaza strip were more than 1 million filling in palestinians have been sheltering and has been a concern for the us if israel were to move in and continue that ope