| ID | 145203 |
| Title Proper | Preparing for a North Korean nuclear missile |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Roy, Denny |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The crisis over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme, now stretching into a third decade, is worsening. There seems little chance that North Korea will give up its arsenal absent a drastic change in circumstances. Pyongyang has repeatedly said its status as a nuclear-weapons state is permanent, even writing this into its constitution in 2012. In the minds of the North Korean people, elevating the country into the nuclear-weapons club is perhaps the greatest tangible accomplishment of the late Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il (father of current leader Kim Jong-un), as economic development foundered during his tenure. Hopes that Pyongyang might have considered its nuclear-weapons programme as a bargaining chip to be traded away for improved relations with its adversaries have largely faded. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 58, No.3; Jun-Jul 2016: p.131-154 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 58 No 3 |
| Key Words | Nuclear ; Non-proliferation ; Missiles ; North Korea |