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Yashar Parsie is a contributor to Hudson’s Keystone Defense Initiative.
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Yashar Parsie was a fellow in the Center for Russia and Europe at the United States Institute of Peace, a military legislative assistant in the United States Senate, and a researcher in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is part of the nuclear scholars initiative in the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast of a North Korean military parade showcasing a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Seoul on February 9, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)