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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Any president1 at the start of a new term will survey international problems and find a few requiring urgent attention. Some will be new, perhaps even emerging after the 2012 political campaign, but others are like hardy perennials, returning year after year. In 2013, one of these problems is North Korea and its aspirations to be a nuclear weapons state. The longer the problem of North Korea's nuclear issue remains, the more the world becomes inured to it, and might become inclined to live with it. North Korea's ambition to develop nuclear weapons, however, is a threat to peace and security-especially in the region. If successful in developing a deliverable nuclear weapons system (i.e. miniaturized and integrated with a working missile), North Korea would make a mockery of the already struggling nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), as well as invite a regional arms race.
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