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ONN Director Andreas Persbo Becomes Part of the International Gender Champions Vienna Hub

ONN Director Andreas Persbo has joined the International Gender Champions Vienna Hub leadership network that brings together decision-makers determined to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence.

March 25,2024

Tianran Xu Interviewed by NK News: ''North Korea deploys new warship, sends another to border amid US-ROK drills''

ONN Analyst Tianran Xu gave an interview to NK News discussing DPRK's new warship deployment.

March 13,2024

ONN-VERTIC-CNS Host Innovative Workshop on Forecasting North Korea's Nuclear Futures

February 23,2024

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July 22, 2021

Getting to Peace Using Open Source Data

The world is complex enough when everyone is operating with the same set of underlying facts on any given topic. When those facts are hidden or manipulated, overcoming intractable conflict becomes nearly impossible. Sharing open source data among adversarial governments, within governments, and betw...

Tianran Xu

July 14, 2021

New Construction at the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground

This report is a work product for the Korean Peninsula monitoring project, which aims to provide situation awareness about the Korean Peninsula. This particular report is about changes ONN detected from satellite images at North Korea's Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground.

July 09, 2021

ONN Engagement Network Members Featured at Annual Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2021

On the 24th and 25th of June, the annual Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity 2021 took place on the theme of “Sustainable Peace and Inclusive Prosperity”.

July 09, 2021

Laura Rockwood, Matthew Frank, Jaewoo Shin for The National Interest: "Is North Korea at Its Breaking Point? Not Yet."

ONN Director Laura Rockwood and ONN Analysts Matthew Frank and Jaewoo Shin contributed an op-ed to The National Interest on the topic of crisis stability in North Korea.

Veronika Bedenko

July 09, 2021

ONN Monitoring Report: New Activity at Abandoned 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon

Analysis of satellite imagery from June 2021 revealed new activity at the abandoned 50 MWe reactor at Yongbyon, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

July 09, 2021

ONN Director Laura Rockwood at European Parliament's Korea Delegation Meeting

Director Rockwood briefed members of the Parliament on the current situation on the Peninsula. She also introduced ONN’s approach to conflict de-escalation on the Korean Peninsula and offered a number of recommendations for nuclear risk reduction.

July 07, 2021

Tianran Xu for The National Interest: "China's Strategic Competition Influences Negotiations with North Korea"

ONN Analyst Xu Tianran wrote that while collaboration on North Korean issues could serve as a bargaining chip or a moderator in China-U.S. relations.

July 01, 2021

Jaewoo Shin Interviewed by Deutsche Welle News on Most Recent Developments in US-DPRK Relations

ONN analyst Jaewoo Shin was recently featured in Deutsche Welle News commenting on the most recent developments in US-DPRK relations.

Tianran Xu

June 26, 2021

Termination of the Revised ROK Missile Guidelines: Assessment of China's and DPRK's Reactions

During the State visit of the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Moon Jae-in to Washington, D.C. in May 2021, the United States agreed to terminate the 1979 Missile Guidelines.

April 21, 2021

Laura Rockwood Interviewed by Indus News on Iran-Israel Tensions

Open Nuclear Network Director Laura Rockwood talks with Indus News about Iran-Israel tensions and nuclear program developments.

Laura Rock contributes to conversation on Iran-Israel tensions

Tianran Xu

April 16, 2021

Ballistic Missile Submarines and Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

This factsheet offers a brief introduction to the ballistic missile submarines of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the associated submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

April 12, 2021

Laura Rockwood Interviewed by AlJazeera on Recent Nuclear Incident at Natanz

ONN Director Laura Rockwood comments on the recent nuclear incident at Natanz and its connection to the ongoing Iran-US negotiations on reviving the nuclear deal JCPOA.

April 10, 2021

ONN Report Cited in UNIDIR's "Nuclear Risk Reduction: Engaging the Non-NPT Nuclear-Armed States" by Wilfred Wan

ONN's report on Nuclear Risk Reduction Approach for the Korean Peninsula was cited in a recent publication by UNIDIR about nuclear risk reduction.

Jaewoo Shin

Veronika Bedenko

Clayton Besaw

Tianran Xu

April 03, 2021

ONN Korean Peninsula Risk Assessment, March 2021

Even though the "North Korea policy review" by the new Biden administration has reportedly yet to be concluded, the month of March 2021 marked the first significant public articulation of positions and signalling by the United States (US) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) vis-à-vi...

Katsuhisa Furukawa

April 02, 2021

Japan's Stand-Off Weapon Programmes: New Counterforce Strike Capabilities?

Since 2018, Japan has advanced its stand-off weapons programmes. It is currently planning to introduce the Norway-sourced Joint Strike Missile and undertaking research and development and/or deployment of at least six types of indigenous stand-off weapons.

March 30, 2021

Iran Watch Listen: How the IAEA Pieces Together the Puzzle of Iran’s Nuclear Program

ONN Director Laura Rockwood took part in the third episode of the Iran Watch Listen podcast hosted by Valerie Lincy, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and Austin Bodetti, a Research Associate at the Wisconsin Project.

March 24, 2021

How Kim Jong Un Keeps Advancing North Korea’s Nuclear Program

North Korea may be working on ICBMs that carry multiple warheads and in-flight countermeasures to throw interceptors off the trail, according to Datayo, an open-source weapons research site.