Strategic Implications of the DPRK’s Growing Nuclear Capacities
- 한국학술연구원
- Korea Observer
- Vol 47, No 4
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2016.12829 - 856 (28 pages)
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Getting a firm grasp of the regional implications of North Korea’s continuing nuclear weapons program, and the reactions to anticipate from the states clearly threatened by this, will likely continue being more a matter of speculation than penetrating analysis, given the varying nature of the governments involved, their competing major objectives other than eliminating the nuclear weapons, and their ongoing uneasiness about each other. Therefore they agree on distrust and dislike of the DPRK, but unfortunately remain at odds about how to go about dealing with the serious danger it poses.
Abstact
I. Introduction
II. The Locale
III. The Threat
IV. Stalemate
V. The First Possibility - Further Complications
VI. The Second Possibility - A more Practical (Though Implausible) Plan
VII. The Third Possibility - What should be done
VIII. The Fourth Possibility - An Alternative
IX. Conclusion
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