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May 11, 2022

Fact Sheet: North Korea Sanctions

Since North Korea carried out its first nuclear weapon test in 2003, it has been the target of multiple sanctions regimes in an attempt to discourage its nuclear development. The UN and the United States, as well as the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, have sanctioned North Korea over the past 16 years. […]

Posted in: Asia, Factsheets on North Korea, North Korea

April 15, 2022

Finding windows for cooperation amid rising nuclear threats

By Anna Kim Last Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo-jong threatened “dreadful attack” and “a miserable fate little short of destruction and ruin” for South Korea, warning that if the country “opts for military confrontation with us, our nuclear combat force will have to inevitably carry out its duty.” The comments were […]

Posted in: Factsheets & Analysis on Russia, Factsheets on Non-Proliferation, Factsheets on North Korea, Issue Center, Non-Proliferation, North Korea, Nukes of Hazard blog, Russia, Ukraine, United States

January 15, 2022

North Korea is testing hypersonic weapons. Should the West be worried?

Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in an NPR article about North Korea’s recent flurry of missile tests. John Tierney, a former Massachusetts representative who now serves as the executive director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, calls hypersonics “shrug worthy,” adopting a term coined by writer Fred Kaplan in a column in Slate last year […]

Posted in: Center in the News, North Korea, Press & In the News on North Korea, Press Room

June 10, 2021

World Nuclear Inventories

There are nine nuclear-armed countries worldwide with about 13,000 nuclear weapons between them. The United States and Russia together have more than 90 percent of those weapons.

Posted in: Infographics on North Korea, Infographics on Nuclear Weapons, Infographics on Russia, North Korea, Nukes of Hazard blog, United States

May 20, 2021

Fact Sheet: North Korea’s Nuclear Inventory

Despite extreme international pressure and sanctions, North Korea has pursued a nuclear weapons program for decades in a self-described attempt to protect the regime from security threats posed by adversarial countries. In 2003, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty  and then tested its first nuclear weapon on October 9, 2006. It continues to build […]

Posted in: Asia, Factsheets on North Korea, North Korea

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