Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March/April 2003. North Korea has apparently become the world’s ninth nuclear power. Last November, the CIA estimated that Pyongyang has one, perhaps two, nuclear weapons. The North Korean crisis, as it has emerged over the past several months, is an extremely complex affair with implications that could drastically affect Asian security […]
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Policy Area: China
Giving Lip Service with an Attitude: North Korea’s China Debate Alexandre Mansourov, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), December 2003. The views of the author may not reflect the official positions of the APCSS, U.S. Government, or Department of Defense. Copyright APCSS 2003. Executive Summary • China’s influence in North Korea is grossly misrepresented and […]
The Park Chung Hee Model as Textbook for Kim Jong-II
(Monthly Chosun), January 2003, Special Issue: (Great changes on the Korean peninsula), pp. 185-213. Interviewed by Kim Yong sam, associate director and edited by Lee Se yeon, reporter. O Wonchol is a former senior economic advisor to Park Chung Hee and architect of South Korea’s heavy and chemical industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s. – […]
Missiles Table 3
Country & Missile Alternate Names Stages & Fuel Range (km) Gross Weight (kg) Payload (RV wt) (kg) CEP (m) Number 2000 Comments N KOREA HwaSong 5 Scud B 1 liq 300 5,900 (985) 800 HwaSong 6 Scud C 1 liq 500 6,400 (770) 1,000 hundreds NoDong 1 1 liq 1,000 21,000 1200 (750) 3,000 […]
NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS
The following document is a fact sheet from the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control, detailing the economic sanctions that apply to the DPRK under US law, and how those sanctions can be revised or repealed. Category[Legal Citation] Description Repeal/Revise 1. Diplomatic Relations.[U.S. Constitution Note: For a good, general overview of the […]
Nuclear Weapons: Presentations by David Albright
Presentations by David Albright President, Institute for Science and International Security and author of the new report, Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle Jon Wolfsthal Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Chair: Joseph Cirincione Director, Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project David Albright: In late 1994 when the framework between the United States and North Korea was signed […]
Setting the Record Straight about Plutonium Production in North Korea
David Albright and Holly Higgins Institute for Science and International Security, 2000 In debating the merits of the Agreed Framework, critics have repeatedly charged that the provision of the two light-water reactors (LWRs) to North Korea will actually enhance North Korea’s ability to make nuclear weapons, compared to its pre-Agreed Framework nuclear capability. A typical […]
Presentations by David Albright
Presentations by David Albright President, Institute for Science and International Security and author of the new report, Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle Jon Wolfsthal Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Chair: Joseph Cirincione Director, Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project David Albright: In late 1994 when the framework between the United States and North Korea was signed […]
Nautilus Concludes Third Renewable Energy Mission to the DPRK
BEIJING, OCTOBER 3, 2000 — A five-person engineering team from the Nautilus Institute today successfully completed the third mission of the US-DPRK Wind Power Village Humanitarian Energy Project. The mission followed up on two previous trips to North Korea in May and September of 1998. “We are very pleased by the success of this mission,” […]
Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle
Policy Area: Nuclear Weapons Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle Appendix 3: Setting the Record Straight about Plutonium Production in North Korea David Albright and Holly Higgins Institute for Science and International Security, 2000 In debating the merits of the Agreed Framework, critics have repeatedly charged that the provision of the two light-water reactors (LWRs) […]