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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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October 11, 2020

Melissa Hanham for BBC: "North Korea: What We Know about the 'Massive' New Missile on Parade"

Deputy Director Melissa Hanham pens a piece for the BBC describing what we learned from the 75th Anniversary Parade in North Korea. Her top three takes: North Korea's new strategic weapon is a giant ICBM, its increased payload means more trouble for US ballistic missile defense, and new heavy duty v...

October 11, 2020

North Korea: What We Know About the 'Massive' New Missile on Parade

Deputy Director Melissa Hanham pens a piece for the BBC describing what we learned from the 75th Anniversary Parade in North Korea.

October 10, 2020

Kim Jong Un’s Big Bang Theory: Weapons Tests Will Get Trump Talking

Achieving such hyperprecision with nuclear technology is only a secondary pursuit for Mr. Kim, who more covets advances that would bring the U.S. back to the negotiating table, said Melissa Hanham, deputy director of Open Nuclear Network, a think tank.

October 10, 2020

"North Korea Unveils Massive New Ballistic Missile in Military Parade" by Brad Lendon for CNN

ONN Deputy Director Melissa Hanham's Twitter post was cited by CNN.

Open Nuclear Network

October 09, 2020

Viewbook of DPRK Missiles

This is a viewbook prepared in anticipation of a military parade likely to be held on or around 10 October 2020 by the DPRK in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

October 09, 2020

Melissa Hanham Interviewed by Arms Control Wonk: "Saving the World with Datayo"

Arms Control Wonks Jeffrey Lewis and Scott Lafoy sit down with OEF's Open Nuclear Network Deputy Director Melissa Hanham to talk about the intersection of data analysis and peace.

Jee Abbey Lee

September 17, 2020

[Engagement Network Series - 2 of 2] South Korea's Chief Nuke Negotiator on How Nuclear Talks with the DPRK Could Resume

ROK chief negotiator at the Six Party Talks, Amb. Chun Yung-woo, has joined the ONN Engagement Network. In this two part series, he sits down with Jee Lee to discuss approaches to engage North Korea and reminisces about what he has learned in previous negotiations.

Jee Abbey Lee

September 09, 2020

[Engagement Network Series - 1 of 2] South Korea's Chief Nuke Negotiator on Decoding Pyongyang

August 08, 2020

Melissa Hanham Interviewed by VOA Washington Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Capability

In a segment of Voice of America Korean Service's Washington Talks, Melissa Hanham, Deputy Director of OEF's Open Nuclear Network programme provides expert insight into North Korea's nuclear capability and other current events on the Korean Peninsula.

Melissa Hanham on Voice of America Korea

Clayton Besaw

August 07, 2020

Nuclear (e)motives: The KCNA's English Language Output and Sentiment Patterns Regarding the Topic of Nuclear Weapons

Breaking down North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) output in English, we find a clear bifurcation in the pattern of language used when it comes to the discussion of texts related to the topic of nuclear weapons.

Matthew Frank

July 27, 2020

Electoral Victory Forecasting: a Structural Model for Global Election Predictions

The field of election forecasting has become immensely popular in recent years, becoming so ubiquitous that some studies have argued election forecasts themselves can influence voters' perceptions and behavior in elections. While there is some criticism that election forecasting can contribute to a...

Ankit Panda

July 07, 2020

Why the "Old Normal" Along the Sino-Indian Border Can No Longer Stand

China's fait accompli in Eastern Ladakh has disintegrated more than two decades of bilateral mechanisms and understandings

By the time 20 Indian soldiers had died and a still-unknown number of Chinese soldiers faced casualties after a high-altitude melee in the normally obscure Galwan Valley on June 15, India and China were already well into a border crisis. The events of June 15 simply had the effect of sharply raising...

Tianran Xu

June 30, 2020

Pyongyang's Bomb Is Not As Advanced As You May Think, But It Can Get Scarier

This article tries to give a general idea of the technological level of North Korean nuclear weapon’s miniaturization in a bid to better understand the nuclear threat North Korea poses to the region and the globe. Through examining limited open-source materials the author tries to establish a rough ...

Jee Abbey Lee

June 25, 2020

Explainer: Why "Leafleting" to North Korea Ruffles Feathers

Throughout the month of June, North Korea has shown increased hostility toward South Korea. Some of these efforts include re-installing loudspeakers along the Demilitarised Zone at one point before removing them, blowing up a joint liaison office in its territory and announcing plans for a massive a...

Jeffrey Glenn Lewis

June 03, 2020

South Korea's Hyunmoo-4 and Increasing Missile Capabilities across Northeast Asia

While North Korea gets most of the attention when it comes to the subject of missile proliferation on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea too has a substantial missile program. The public received a rare glimpse into South Korea’s missile programs in May, when South Korean news outlets reported on a t...

Clayton Besaw

May 22, 2020

Unpacking Russian Presidential Speech Patterns with Machine Learning

Natural language processing and topic modeling specifically have proliferated in accessibility over the past decade. Topic modeling algorithms such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are now considered a type of "work-horse" tool for uncovering patterns (topics) in large sets of text data.

Melissa Hanham

Jaewoo Shin

May 21, 2020

Ethics in the Age of OSINT Innocence

Increased availability and lower cost of satellite imagery has made it accessible to civil society in recent years. While universities, think tanks, and nongovernmental organizations are racing ahead to incorporate this form of open source intelligence (OSINT) into their regular research work, there...