Wilson In the News
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North Korea Raises the Nuclear Stakes (Foreign Affairs)
“South Koreans are increasingly debating how their country can strengthen its deterrence. They may press Washington for the rotation of more nuclear-capable U.S. weapons systems...They could ask for the introduction of NATO-style sharing of nuclear weapons... And then there is the most radical option of all: namely, South Korea itself could go nuclear.” -Sue Mi Terry
Another Revolution in Iran? (CNN)
“Today, we don’t see an organization, a leader, a manifesto, an idea. These are people of very diverse political and social positions who have come together because they want private freedoms, personal freedoms. They have not yet given us a vision.” -Robin Wright on GPS with Fareed Zakaria
Brittney Griner’s Sentencing Appeal Denied (CBS)
“The idea that somehow that a diplomatic solution is at hand, or can be readily achieved, is very hard to see... I think there is a possibility of a prisoner swap... but it is by no means clear that Russia will only want a prisoner swap.” -Will Pomeranz
An Iranian American Scholar Talks About Her Time in a Notorious Tehran Prison (NPR)
“It was such a horrible noise, that it would stay with me forever and ever... I was not physically tortured but mentally all the time. You know, I was threatened that they will keep me as long as it is necessary—maybe years and years in Evin [prison]—until I confess. I didn't have anything to confess, you see. So, I mean, it's worse than what you hear.” Haleh Esfandiari on Morning Edition.
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