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Robert L. Carlin

Robert L. Carlin is a nonresident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US State Department, where he took part in US-North Korean negotiations.


Articles by Robert L. Carlin

Kim Jong-un and Hwasong-17 ICBM

A letter from Kim Jong Un to Donald Trump, penned by two top US experts

By Robert L. Carlin, Siegfried S. Hecker | Analysis, Nuclear Risk