Hi everybody, im jacob, editor of the National Interest and harry has magnanimously asked me to chair this discussion. Which looks like it will be a corker. It is can sanctions bring about denuclearization or are they, and i will play editorial prerogative, a bloody any waste of time . Our panelists today, first panelist to my immediate left is Lieutenant General Wallace Gregson who is retired former head of us marines in the pacific and a senior fellow here at the center for the National Interest. To my further left geographically but not politically is former Lieutenant Colonel danny davis who is a senior fellow at defense priorities and danny is also im pleased to say a regular contributor to the National Interest website and finally to my right henry farren, a senior fellow at the center for international policy. Im reckoning that with all the attention being the stowed upon tehran that pyongyang may be starting to feel a little lonely and so id like to ask chip, what are the prosp
Hi everybody, im jacob, editor of the National Interest and harry has magnanimously asked me to chair this discussion. Which looks like it will be a corker. It is can sanctions bring about denuclearization or are they, and i will play editorial prerogative, a bloody any waste of time . Our panelists today, first panelist to my immediate left is Lieutenant General Wallace Gregson who is retired former head of us marines in the pacific and a senior fellow here at the center for the National Interest. To my further left geographically but not politically is former Lieutenant Colonel danny davis who is a senior fellow at defense priorities and danny is also im pleased to say a regular contributor to the National Interest website and finally to my right henry farren, a senior fellow at the center for international policy. Im reckoning that with all the attention being the stowed upon tehran that pyongyang may be starting to feel a little lonely and so id like to ask chip, what are the prosp
Can everyone hear me . Id like to go ahead and get started. Good morning and thank you all for coming. My name is george bebe, im the vicepresident and director of studies here at the center of the National Interest. I want to welcome you and thank you all for coming to this Conference Today on north korea. As we think about what might be coming down the road on the Korean Peninsula and the broader region, its very easy, i think, to succumb to the temptation to be pessimistic. In fact, as we sit here in washington today, it seems like theres all kinds of reasons to be pessimistic. We seem to be facing on the home front a variety of challenges. Were in the midst of a wrenching president ial impeachment process. The broader country seems to have some deep cleavages societally. We have a big problem with mutual distrust in the country. When we look abroad, internationally, the headlines were reading this morning suggest we might be on the brink of a very dangerous war with iran. We last w
Evasion. Big numbers and equally big questions. Critics say the recordbreaking da vinci is too good to be true. Yvonne just when we thought we got over this big hurdle on tax reform in the house, clouds looming in the Trump Administration when it comes to russia. A wall street journal report just breaking special counsel Robert Muellers team last month had issued a subpoena to president Trumps Campaign requesting some of these russia related documents. We are seeing some moves in the market on the news. Betty we are. The subpoena did not compel any officials to testify before a grand jury, but it caught the campaign by surprise, and also noted that bob muellers team is expected to interview current and former white house officials, including the Communications Director hope hicks. There is certainly more to come in this story. Some of the away bullish headlines from the u. S. About tax reform. In the meantime, lets get more on that with first word news with courtney collins. Reporter t
Next, a look at the effectiveness of u. S. Sanctions against countries like iran and north korea. And other countries of strategic importance. Top officials from the Treasury Department who are responsible for implementing sanctions testified on the trump administrations priorities. And evaluated sanctions currently in place. On russia, venezuela, north korea and iran. We join the hearing in progress. Now, another question i have. As part of the omnibus package that was passed earlier in the year, we requested that the Treasury Department issue a report on entities that were delisted under the jcpoa and whether they have engaged in sanctionable activity since the jcpoa and we have not got that result yet. So if you could help us there. So what is the status of that report, and do you feel that any entities that had their sanctions lifted under the jcpoas have continued to engage in activity since the deal began to be enforced . So we continue working on those reports, as we said. We ha