North Korea nuclear program

Insights from Fyodor Tertitskiy.

Russia’s growing technological assistance has the potential to bolster North Korea’s development of ICBMs and SLBMs, nuclear-powered submarines, and low yield nuclear weapons.

Neither Trump nor Putin has much incentive to address the North Korea issue, but leaving it off the table risks putting the nail in the coffin of the U.N.'s nonproliferation efforts.

Devising a concrete plan to strengthen its self-defense capabilities and recalibrating its policy on North Korea would be top priorities for Seoul over the next two months.

“In general, there is no public backing for South Korea’s deeper involvement in Ukraine. And this is common sense.”

State media released images of leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Nuclear Weapons Institute and an unnamed facility producing weapons-grade nuclear materials.

Reaching an agreement with Pyongyang is hard enough; implementing it would be even tougher.

Beijing and Moscow have different perspectives on – and different appetites for – Pyongyang’s nuclear program.

“We must handle the hypothesis of an imminent threat as long as nuclear weapons exist.”

Five key debates hinder the achievement of an allied integrated approach in dealing with the threat from North Korea.

Ankit Panda, the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at CEIP, on North Korea’s military build-up, the international response, and the potential for South Korea to go nuclear.

South Korea naturally sees an arms control agreement between the United States and China as a logical objective. However, the complication lies with North Korea.