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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

Updated June 29, 2023 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

Updated September 2022 North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has existed for decades in a self-described attempt to protect the regime from security threats posed by adversaries and proxies. Bilateral efforts between the United States and the DPRK under the Agreed Framework ultimately failed, and in 2003, North Korea officially withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). […]

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

June 24, 2020

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula underscore the need for new negotiations

By Zach Glass, Policy Intern On June 16, North Korea blew up the Kaesong Liaison Office, which was built in September 2018 to foster inter-Korean dialogue. This quite literal deterioration of Korean relations occurred one week after Pyongyang announced that it had severed all lines of communication with South Korea, which North Korean state media claimed was the result […]

Posted in: Asia, North Korea, Nukes of Hazard blog

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