North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Latest Developments

Abstract

This report summarizes what is known from open sources about the North Korean nuclear weapons program - including weapons-usable fissile material and warhead estimates - and assesses current developments in verifying dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear facilities as agreed in the Six-Party Talks. The Six-Party Talks include the United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and North Korea, and were begun in August 2003 to attempt to resolve the current crisis over North Korean nuclear weapons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 21, 2007
Accession Number
ADA474614

Entities

People

  • Mary B. Nikitin

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Department Of State
  • Fissile Materials
  • Fuel Oils
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • International Security
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear Fuels
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • United States
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security