R. Taj Moore is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and Harvard National Security Journal. He was co-director of the National Security Research Committee at the law school. He has previously interned at the Department of Defense. Before law school, he worked as a Scoville Fellow at the Stimson Center. He graduated from Brown University in 2011 with an A.B. in Political Science.
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On March 2, 2016, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed Resolution 2270, which expands the scope of existing sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The resolution was proposed in response to the DPRK’s purported January 2016 hydrogen bomb test.
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