Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago
"What does Kim Jong Un’s confidence mean for the possibility of a nuclear attack from North Korea?
Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joined us to discuss his new book “The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon” and how “nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of international statecraft in ways unseen since the Cold War… The prospect of nuclear escalation is again shaping how political decision-makers and military establishments around the world think and act.”
Panda theorizes that Kim Jong Un’s newfound confidence in his nuclear weapons has in some ways mitigated the much-discussed threat of a surprise attack on enemy states.
📺 Full program: The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon with Ankit Panda | April 30, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=cZtHG6Y2KAc
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The Korea Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea."
"What does Kim Jong Un’s confidence mean for the possibility of a nuclear attack from North Korea?
Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joined us to discuss his new book “The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon” and how “nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of international statecraft in ways unseen since the Cold War… The prospect of nuclear escalation is again shaping how political decision-makers and military establishments around the world think and act.”
Panda theorizes that Kim Jong Un’s newfound confidence in his nuclear weapons has in some ways mitigated the much-discussed threat of a surprise attack on enemy states.
📺 Full program: The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon with Ankit Panda | April 30, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=cZtHG6Y2KAc
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The Korea Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea."
