Pacific

The North Korean Nuclear Summit

Tom Plant, Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy programme at RUSI on the proposed nuclear summit between North Korea and the US

RUSI awarded grant to study diplomacy on the Korean peninsula

The Korea Foundation has awarded RUSI’s Proliferation and Nuclear Policy team a grant to explore a freeze-for-freeze agreement between North Korea, the US and regional stakeholders.

"A crisis looms, with potentially far more serious economic, social and political consequences than demographics, debt and deleveraging. So why is water scarcity not a central feature of studies of China’s economic outlook? "

China’s acute water shortage imperils economic future

"Justin Bronk, a military expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider that North Korea's mystery missiles looked "enormously like Iskander missiles" and were not ones that North Korea had "been seen with before."Bronk pointed out that Russia has a history of helping North Korea with its missile program. Talented engineers left unemployed after the collapse of the Soviet Union and often found good-paying work in North Korea, Bronk said. "

A mystery missile at North Korea's military parade should make the US worried

Taiwan’s Illustrative Minehunter Troubles

Shang-Su Wu

Taiwan has had industrial financial viability problems with the construction of new minehunting vessels. These problems are indicative of the difficulties Taipei faces in its indigenous military modernisation efforts aimed at ameliorating its military inferiority vis-à-vis China.

"“There isn’t really a known defense mechanism against a railgun shot at high Mach numbers. It’s too fast and too small for current anti-ship missile and anti-aircraft defense systems....If they can get it integrated as a major component into their future fleet arsenal, it will give them a really significant edge over the U.S. Navy." "

What Is A Hypersonic Railgun? How The Superweapon China May Be Building Works