Dr Jeffrey Lewis, Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, joins us to discuss the state of arms control with North Korea. In the first part of this episode, he walks us through the current North Korean crisis, the arms control agreement that should govern the crisis, as well as reactions to the crisis, and lessons to learn from it. He concludes that signing a deal with Kim Il Sung was positive nonetheless, because North Korea paused building two additional nuclear reactors. In the second part, Lewis speaks about his career, and the Iraq War. 

Dr Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he teaches courses on arms control issues in Northeast Asia and Chinese nuclear policy.

Episode 2 Background Reading and Links

•	Kelsey Davenport, “Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy, 1985-2022,” Arms Control Association, April 2022: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron 
•	Siegfried S. Hecker, “Lessons Learned from the North Korean Nuclear Crises,” Daedalus, Winter 2010, https://www.amacad.org/publication/lessons-learned-north-korean-nuclear-crises 
•	Łukasz Kulesa, “U.S. Extended Deterrence Weakened? Lessons Learned from the North Korean Crisis,” The Polish Institute of International Affairs, 28 May 2013: https://www.nonproliferation.eu//wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bulletin-PISM-no-57-510-28-May-2013.pdf

S1.E2 / North Korea and the Limits of Arms Control - With Dr Jeffrey Lewis

About The Arms Control Primer

The Arms Control Primer is a regular podcast series run by the International Institute for Strategic Studies on behalf of the European Union Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC) that unpacks the most pressing arms-control issues, explores the nuclear past, present and future, and discusses measures to combat miscalculation, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.

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