Kim Jong Il's "Strong and Great Nation" Campaign and the DPRK's Deterrence of the U.S. "Imperialist" Threat

Abstract

North Koreas new, highly enriched uranium nuclear-weapons program may be a consequence of Kim Jong Il and his military leaders paranoid worldview. From Pyongyang, ones view of international developments can be dramatically different from that of Washington, D.C. Observers of developments in North Korea are routinely reminded that Kim Jong Il rules behind a vanguard of a million-man army, two thirds of which is estimated to be deployed near the South-North Korea border formed by the no mans land commonly referred to as the De-militarized Zone or DMZ. Backing this mighty conventional force are a dozens of medium-range ballistic missiles and a concentration of long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area, home for nearly one-quarter of all South Koreans. Additionally, North Koreas arsenal may include chemical, biological and possibly even nuclear weapons. Obviously, this is a potent and threatening military posture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2005
Accession Number
AD1032408

Entities

People

  • C. K. Quinones

Organizations

  • Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircrafts
  • Antisubmarine Aircraft
  • Asia
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Deterrence
  • Diplomacy
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Community
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Negotiations
  • North Korea
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Political Systems
  • Production
  • Security
  • South Korea
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Strategic Security Studies