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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

North Korea Fires Possible Ballistic Missile Into Sea After Kim Jong-Un Vows to Bolster Military Capabilities

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Terrorism Emerging Threats

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/north-korea-fires-possible-ballistic-missile-into-sea-after-kim-jong-un-vows-to-bolster-military-capabilities_4193989.html

People watch a TV broadcasting file footage of a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile off its east coast, in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 5, 2022. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

North Korea fired a possible ballistic missile off its east coast on early Wednesday, authorities in Japan and South Korea said, just a week after its leader Kim Jong-un vowed to bolster North Korea’s military capabilities amid the instability on the Korean Peninsula.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense said in a statement that a possible ballistic missile was fired from North Korea at around 8:07 a.m. on Wednesday. The projectile flew about 500 kilometers (some 310 miles) and landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

No damage has been reported as a result of the incident so far, the ministry stated.

Following the report, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has ordered the ministry to collect and analyze any information related to the incident, and that any updates be communicated to the public.

Kishida also instructed the authorities to confirm the safety of ships and planes in the area where the projectile had reportedly landed.

“We find it truly regrettable that North Korea has continued to fire missiles from last year,” he told reporters.

Kishida said other details about the North Korean launch weren’t immediately available, including where the suspected missile landed and whether there had been any damage.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that North Korea launched the missile eastward on Wednesday morning, adding that it is currently analyzing the launch with U.S. intelligence authorities.

The missile launch came after Kim Jong-un pledged in his New Year’s speech to bolster North Korea’s military capabilities and develop “high-tech weapon systems” in response to the “destabilizing situation” on the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea has been pushing for a declaration to end the 1950–53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, as a way to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. However, North Korea insists that any formal treaty to end the war must first be preceded by an end to U.S. “hostilities” toward Pyongyang.

The United States reiterated that it holds “no hostile intent” toward Pyongyang and expressed willingness to meet with North Korea for negotiations without preconditions.

While Kim spoke of “principled issues and some tactical directions to be maintained in inter-Korean relations and foreign affairs,” the North Korean leader made no mention of his country’s dealings with the United States and South Korea in his speech.

Despite North Korea’s unresponsiveness to calls for the end-of-war declaration, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he would continue pursuing an “irreversible path to peace” with North Korea until the end of his five-year term in May.

Moon pledged to “institutionalize sustainable peace” with North Korea, emphasizing that the “international community will respond” if both sides resume dialogue and cooperation.

“The government will pursue normalization of inter-Korean relations and an irreversible path to peace until the end. I hope efforts for dialogue will continue in the next administration too,” Moon said in his final New Year’s address.

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