Joseph R. DeTrani

Joseph R. DeTrani is a former Associate Director of National Intelligence and former member of the Senior Intelligence Service of the CIA. He served as special envoy for the Six-Party Talks with North Korea from 2003 to 2006 and as director of the National Counterproliferation Center. He regularly contributes columns to The Washington Times as part of the paper's Threat Status initiative.

Columns by Joseph R. DeTrani

North Korea’s preemptive nuclear threat

It should be crystal clear: North Korea has nuclear weapons not only for defensive deterrence purposes but, according to Kim Jong-un, to respond to any perceived threat to North Korea and its leadership. Published May 4, 2022

Tension on the Korean Peninsula

North Korea is on a roll. Published March 28, 2022

China’s alignment with a revanchist Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin just doubled down, in defiance to NATO and the United States, and deployed troops and recognized Russia-backed separatists in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, regions within Ukraine. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said Russia's recognition of the two territories in Ukraine "is a blatant violation of international law." Published February 22, 2022