Guy Taylor
Articles by Guy Taylor
India says it told Pakistan of Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camp before airstrikes
India gave specific information to Pakistani authorities on the location of a U.S.-designated terror group's training camp inside Pakistan well before Indian fighter jets bombed the camp last week, according to a high-level Indian official who says Islamabad flat-out ignored the information. Published March 7, 2019
Donald Trump questions North Korea restored rocket site report
President Trump responded cautiously Wednesday to a report that North Korea is restoring a long-range rocket launch site it had promised to dismantle, as the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang struggled to keep its momentum. Published March 6, 2019
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana wants review of 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty
The top Philippine defense official called Tuesday for a review of his nation's decades-old military treaty with Washington, saying Manila fears being sucked into a "war that we do not seek and do not want" should the U.S. and China suddenly clash over the region's disputed waterways. Published March 5, 2019
N. Korean state media stays quiet on Trump-Kim summit, focuses instead on ‘goodwill’ of Vietnam trip
State-controlled media in Pyongyang remained quiet Tuesday on Kim Jong Un's high-stakes summit last week with President Trump -- choosing instead to focus only on the North Korean leader's return home from an "official goodwill visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam." Published March 5, 2019
China rivalry hovers over Mike Pompeo’s Manila stop
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in Manila Thursday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to boost a key Southeast Asian treaty ally at a moment of increased concern over expanding Chinese military might and economic maneuvering in the region. Published February 28, 2019
Donald Trump touts deep U.S. intel in North Korea: ‘We know every inch of that country’
After cutting short his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday, President Trump revealed that U.S. intelligence has a far more meticulous and detailed understanding of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile operations than has previously been revealed. Published February 28, 2019
Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un meet for start of second denuclearization summit
President Trump warmly greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday at the start of their second denuclearization summit, predicting that their "great relationship" will lead to fruitful negotiations over the North's nuclear weapons. Published February 27, 2019
N. Korea state media quiet as Kim Jong-un makes splash in Hanoi
Kim Jong-un's arrival here Tuesday grabbed global attention, with pundits from Sydney to Stockholm weighing in on everything from his coifed haircut to the cigarettes he smokes to the big question of whether he'll give up his nuclear weapons. Published February 26, 2019
Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un arrive in Vietnam for second denuclearization summit
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Hanoi Tuesday amid heavy security for their second summit, as the president seeks to negotiate the elusive terms for ending Pyongyang's menacing pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. Published February 26, 2019
Kim Jong-un has fences to mend during Vietnam summit
HANOI, Vietnam| Kim Jong-un's summit with President Trump is the main event, but insiders say the North Korean leader has an "ulterior motive" — smoothing ruffled feathers in Hanoi after Pyongyang in 2017 was accused of recruiting a Vietnamese woman to assassinate Mr. Kim's half-brother in Malaysia. Published February 25, 2019
Kim Yong-chol, Kim Jong-Un aide, aims to outwit Trump negotiators
Kim Yong-chol, Pyongyang's former intelligence chief, has emerges as a central player in the drama set to unfold when President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for a critical second summit to try to ease the nuclear standoff on the divided Korean Peninsula. Published February 24, 2019
Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes
Iran is providing high-level al Qaeda operatives with a clandestine sanctuary to funnel fighters, money and weapons across the Middle East, according to Trump administration officials who warn that the long-elusive, complex relationship between two avowed enemies of America has evolved into an unacceptable global security threat. Published February 18, 2019
Christopher Hill, Joseph DeTrani urge Kim Jong-un to ‘show some denuclearization,’ clarify demands
The two former top U.S. negotiators in talks that melted down with North Korea in 2009 have some sobering advice for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ahead of his second summit with President Trump. Published February 10, 2019
Dick Cheney calls on Trump to resist temptation for a bad deal with N. Korea
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned in a major speech here Friday that the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "highly skilled at extracting concessions in exchange for nothing," and cautioned U.S. negotiators against "repeating past mistakes" as President Trump heads toward a second summit with Mr. Kim later this month. Published February 8, 2019
U.S. envoy goes to North Korea to prepare second Kim-Trump summit
The Trump administration's top envoy on the Korean nuclear crisis will meet Wednesday with his counterpart in Pyongyang in preparation for the impending second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Published February 5, 2019
Donald Trump not using U.S. troops as bargaining chip in North Korea talks, envoy says
The Trump administration's top envoy for diplomacy with North Korea says the possibility of removing U.S. forces from South Korea has so far not been raised in talks as a way to entice Pyongyang into abandoning its nuclear arsenal. Published January 31, 2019
Donald Trump wins Republican, NATO support for INF treaty end
With last-ditch diplomatic attempts so far failing to resolve disputes over the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Trump administration is expected to stick to the Feb. 2 deadline for withdrawing if Russia refuses to come into compliance. Published January 30, 2019
North Korea sends denuclearization diplomat to ‘re-education’ camp: Reports
A former top North Korean diplomat, who for decades played a pivotal role in Pyongyang's fraught relations with Washington, has been fired and sent away to a remote "re-education camp," according to South Korean media reports. Published January 30, 2019
Ryan Crocker: Donald Trump negotiating U.S. ‘surrender’ in Afghanistan
A former high-level U.S. diplomat who held key ambassador posts in the Clinton, Bush and Obama eras is slamming the Trump administration's handling of talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying they've "delegitimized" the Afghan government and amount to a U.S. "surrender." Published January 30, 2019
Dan Coats, Gina Haspel, Chris Wray ‘threat assessment’ refutes Trump claims
North Korea is "unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities," the Islamic State "still commands thousands of fighters," Iran is abiding so far by the 2015 nuclear deal, and Russia is bent on "dividing Western political and security institutions." Published January 29, 2019