PREVIEW: DRONES: SOUTH KOREA: JAPAN Upcoming discussion with Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) will examine a war game scenario exploring the implications of North Korean drone warfare targeting nuclear infrastructure.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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PREVIEW: DRONES: SOUTH KOREA: JAPAN
This scenario raises critical questions about regional security vulnerabilities, drone defense capabilities, and the cascading effects of attacks on civilian nuclear facilities. The conversation will explore how such hybrid warfare tactics could destabilize the region through panic and mass displacement, even without conventional military engagement.
Sokolski's insights should illuminate emerging security challenges at the intersection of drone technology, nuclear safety, and regional stability in East Asia.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Henry Sikolsky, of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, |
| 0:06.9 | speaking to drones in the news, also drones in a war game, Henry designed, about a possible hybrid attack on South Korea and Japan simultaneously in order to permit China to overwhelm Taiwan. |
| 0:24.4 | Quite fantastic, except for drones are everywhere in the news these days, unidentified. |
| 0:29.5 | And Henry here speaks to the concern in Europe about drones that don't have a postmark. |
| 0:34.8 | Henry Sikolsky, drones, nuclear energy plants, risk, war, hybrid war? |
| 0:41.9 | You understand. More of this tonight. |
| 0:45.2 | Well, it's my concern. |
| 0:46.4 | I mean, it could be that I'm sort of breathless and sort of an extremist |
| 0:51.2 | and being concerned about this, but I don't think so. |
| 0:53.5 | In my private conversations with planners planners in the Nordic countries that have nuclear plants |
| 1:00.8 | with people in Israel and South Korea, privately, they are quite concerned, as are the Japanese, |
| 1:07.7 | that the nuclear plants, you know, are vulnerable and that they are not ready |
| 1:12.7 | to take on what might be, you know, an attack. |
| 1:16.8 | Not only that, but there have been overflights of reactors with military drones in Germany, |
| 1:22.3 | and the military drones are rushed, and they're publicly talking about this. |
| 1:26.4 | So if you want to be breathless, |
| 1:28.1 | there's plenty to work with. |
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