North Korea has a nuclear weapons program, [7] and, as of 2024, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year. [8] . North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons.

In 1977 the DPRK concluded an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], allowing the latter to inspect a research reactor which was built with the assistance of the USSR. The North Korean nuclear weapons program dates back to the 1980s.

North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons has been deliberate, determined, and patient. The nuclear program is not the most secretive in the world and North Korea's progress has not come as a surprise. US diplomacy since 2000 has been sporadic, reactive, and often motivated by a desire to avoid risk instead of manage risk.

2023年11月27日 · The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is intent on continuing to pursue its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions, a senior...

On 16 April 2022, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) reportedly conducted successful tests of a new type of short-range ballistic missile. The DPRK claimed that this new type of missile would boost the firepower of its frontline long-range artillery units and enhance the efficiency in the operation of its tactical nuclear weapons. [1]

and December 2023. The DPRK first successfully test-launched two liquid-propellant, road-mobile ICBMs in 2017: the Hwasong-14 (U.S. designated KN-20) and Hwasong-15 (U.S. designated KN-22). The Hwasong-15 was most recently flight tested on February 18 in what North Korea called a “sudden launching drill.”

objectives of the DPRK nuclear arsenal: “regime survival”; “securing territorial integrity”; and “deterring military aggression,” including forced reunification with the ROK. The 2021 RAND study 4 also assessed that the DPRK has been evolving from a more defence-oriented

2025年1月8日 · The launch of yet another ballistic missile by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is of serious concern, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday, highlighting...

On 12 December 1985 the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). On 10 April 1992 the NPT Safeguards Agreement entered into force (INFCIRC/403).

2024年3月14日 · Anastasia Barannikova analyses the DPRK’s hybrid nuclear weapons strategy and argues that its impressive progress was the result of clear strategic planning and a vision of the role of nuclear weapons in the DPRK’s defense strategy.