Ankit Panda

And I think that's fundamentally a good thing because we will need

an opportunity to put Americans and North Koreans back in the room together to talk about a lot of things.

Unfortunately, at the moment, the North Koreans seem to have completely embraced a new world.

They are in now an alliance with the Russian Federation.

Kim Jong-un has been rather clear that he doesn't see a premise for negotiating with the United States as long as the United States is talking about

the term denuclearization, which is this term that comes from the 1990s that refers to taking North Korea's nuclear weapons essentially away from the country.

So I still think there's room for progress here, but it will require the United States to really ask some tough questions about what are our key interests with North Korea.

I would argue that our key interest should be reducing the risk of nuclear war with a country with which we have

No diplomatic relations or contact at the moment, but yet a country that targets us and our allies with nuclear weapons.

To me, that's a pretty big problem that should motivate us to rethink our policy.

Yeah, India and Pakistan, you know, I mean, I think for many Americans, this one kind of flies under the radar a little bit because neither country is really an overt adversary of the United States, although the Pakistanis have certainly given us a share of trouble in the past.

But India and Pakistan, of course, I think remain a perennial concern.

Just last year in May, both countries showed us that over four days, nuclear-armed states could fight actually a pretty intense conflict with each other.

This was the most intense kind of conflict

multi vector conflict between nuclear armed states in the history of the nuclear age.

Right.

And I think it just kind of a lot of people didn't really grasp the significance of that.

The significance, I would argue, is that both India and Pakistan, I think, have changing beliefs about what is possible between them.

They've been nuclear possessors since 1998.

And since 1998, they have fought multiple skirmishes and they fought a full scale war in 1999.