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	In the News June 13, 2018 CIS experts in national security and the Koreas discuss the Singapore summit The Center's experts have been mentioned in media outlets around the globe, weighing in on the expectations and possible outcomes of the historic meeting of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
	Analysis + Opinion June 12, 2018 North Korea is a nuclear power. Get used to it. Vipin Narang and Ankit PandaThe New York Times North Korea has arrived as a nuclear power, and there is no going back. Once the reality-show theatrics of the Singapore summit meeting subside, we are left with the reality that North Korea was just recognized as a de facto nuclear weapons power.
	Analysis + Opinion June 12, 2018 What just happened? Experts break it down CNN Vipin Narang tells CNN that the Singapore summit showed why Kim Jong Un pursued nuclear weapons in the first place. Although he might have declared his nuclear weapons force “completed” in November 2017, it only achieved political completion when he sat down with the President of the United States as an equal.
	In the News June 12, 2018 Gender gap without gender bias? Colleen FlahertyInside Higher Ed Kathleen Thelen's research inspires political science publishers to take a closer at publication gender bias. Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. Why?
	In the News June 11, 2018 Singapore summit preview Meghna Chakrabarti and Jamie BolognaWBUR It may take years to determine the success of the summit, but experts discuss what to watch for and what they expect to see out of the historic meeting.
	In the News June 11, 2018 What to expect from President Trump’s first meeting with Kim Jong Un Larry MantleAirTalk It will be the first time a North Korean leader has met with a sitting US president, despite decades of tense relations. Experts in national security and the Koreas discuss expectations ahead of tonight’s summit.
	In the News June 11, 2018 Who has Kim Jong Un's 'nuclear button' in Pyongyang while he's away? Josh SmithReuters “Its command and control structure while Kim is traveling is unlikely to be robust enough for him to be able to reliably issue or stop launch sequences,” says Vipin Narang. He said that was because North Korea was likely to have configured its nuclear forces to permit rapid authorization to launch in order to offset the risk of a first strike from the United States.
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	In the News June 8, 2018 Despite good faith on Singapore meeting, discord remains between US, Japan Xinhua CIS Director Richard Samuels said: “He (Trump) has given every reason for Tokyo to fear that Washington will compromise their security by cutting a deal that doesn't include short range missiles and that effectively acknowledges the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state. Abe has few cards to play to forestall that.”
	In the News June 7, 2018 Why certain types of elections favor extreme candidates KellogInsight The study, based on the research of Fotini Christia and several other social scientists, cannot say whether district or at-large elections are better, but it is clear that voting systems can influence who ends up in power.