Who is he? U Aung Lynn most recently served as the permanent secretary of Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, since 2011, as director-general of the ministry’s ASEAN Affairs Department. Aung Lynn began his career in government in 1982, joining…
By Victor Cha & Lisa Collins — The Department of the Treasury’s Notice of Finding on June 1 designates North Korea for the first time as a jurisdiction of “primary money laundering concern” under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT…
By Victor Cha — An investigation recently opened by federal authorities – the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles – and analyses by private cybersecurity firms such as Symantec and Bae Systems in the past month have renewed…
By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen — Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam in late May, officials and analysts in both Washington and Hanoi have been talking about whether the United States should fully lift the ban…
In this episode we discuss the remarkable rise of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar, or Burma. Following inauguration on April 1, 2016, the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi must now address…
By Victor Cha — The UN Security Council adopted UNSCR 2270 on March 2 by a unanimous vote [15-0]. The resolution comes nearly two months after the January 6 nuclear test and presents a broader set of heightened sanctions against…
By Lisa Collins – On February 12, Congress passed the “North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act” (H.R. 757). Early last month, the bill was introduced and passed in the House of Representatives (418-2). The Senate went on to approve…
CSIS scholars and CogitAsia contributors Victor Cha and Bonnie Glaser testified on the “U.S. Response to North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations” before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. Watch their testimony, along with…
By Bonnie Glaser Q1: Was the official statement by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs particularly harsh? No. China’s foreign ministry statement said that it is “firmly opposed” to North Korea’s nuclear test. It “strongly” urged the DPRK to honor its…
By Victor Cha Earlier today, North Korea announced it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test. We take a look at the road ahead for the United Nations and the United States in response in our latest snapshot post: The United…
