two-hour radio audience, our conversation with michael o'hanlon. r next call is from washington, d.c.. good morning. caller: good morning. see what he, to mr. o'hanlon, thanks about the lessons of international conflicts, such as afghanistan and attempts to resolve such concepts, and how we can apply that to domestic u.s. policies, such as civil justice reform and chool-to-prison pipelines, specifically replacing out of school discipline with in-school activities and student support, as well as, more specifically, in addition, reforming our family courts, which have caused middle afghanistans all throughout the united states. host: just so we're clear in answering this, explain, from your standpoint,, the parallels between the two. well, we have a family court system that has caused conflict all throughout the united states and has harmed millions of children and destroyed the african-american family structure. do to enforce, and orders, administrative orders that would replace adversarial litigation with mediation. guest: i think most of your quest

for that christensen to me and i for us in washington when i speak some more about this now to michael o'hanlon who's a senior fellow in the foreign policy center for twenty first century security and intelligence at the brookings institution he's from washington thank you very much for being with us you think this is a genuine security commitment to pull out of the ninety seven treaty or is it political posturing designed to change the nature of the deal trick the other side perhaps into falling in line. well it's really a three player situation because china's role here is crucial as you know china is not party to the treaty and is not violating the treaty therefore but it has built hundreds of missiles of the range we're talking about between three hundred miles and thirty four hundred miles and it is has conventional warheads on most of those missiles and they are now up in positions to threaten u.s. allies and american military assets in the western pacific so even if russia were in full compliance the united states might have an interest in building its own ground launched medium range mi

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joining us is michael o'hanlon, brookings institute senior policy -- sorry, brookings institute foreigny senior fellow. it is very complicated. i got it right the second time. >> you did great. melissa: michael, what do you think needs to be contained in the agreement that they signed together in order for this to be progress? >> well you know there are a lot of possible good deals but when you think about what both sides would realistically trade off i don't think the north koreans are not interested in giving up most of their nuclear manies bombs right now, but maybe they're prepared to give up a lot of other stuff, the infrastructure to make more bombs. the ability to make long-range missiles, maybe their chemical weapons. these are the kind of things we can get them to do. verifiably dismantle all the things they use to enrich uranium or make my tone yum, the key components to make nuclear weapons. in exchanges for that we can talk about lifting some of the sanctions, not all of them, but some of the ones that matter most to north korea for its economy. the ones proposed at the u.n.

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