There's also a simple geographic reality that given North Korea's geographic position on the globe and their ambitions to develop long-range missiles, at some point they have to fly over another country's territory.
North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile over Japan, believed to be the farthest its ever launched one before. It prompted people to take shelter, and heightened concerns over escalating aggression in the region.
Denuclearization is now in the dustbin of history as a failed policy. There is simply no practical plan at this point, especially in the short term, to bring North Korea to the negotiating table.
The military applications of a new generation of technologies have given rise to significant concerns regarding their potential impact on international stability and human security.
James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace breaks down Vladimir Putin’s latest threat to use weapons of mass destruction in the Ukraine war, what it says about the state of the conflict and how dangerous things could get.
But in recent years China seems to be speeding up its nuclear modernization process and the number has grown to about 350 today. That's already a considerable increase from the previous number.
This study reveals a combined effect that the authors term ‘negative multiplicity’. Negative multiplicity reflects the predominantly negative, concurrent, and in some cases similar, first- and second-order effects that emerging technologies are expected to have on international stability and human security.
Ukraine's battlefield victories are a reason for celebration. But could it could also usher in another dangerous phase — with Russia's President Vladimir Putin lashing out in other ways.
North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly has adopted a new law on nuclear policy, updating a 2013 antecedent. While the law does not fundamentally upend North Korean nuclear strategy or doctrine, it expands the scenarios under which the country’s nuclear weapons may be released.
If this document were to contain anything as sensitive as the nature of the design of particular nuclear weapons, that could also constitute a proliferation risk for countries that are looking to build their own nuclear weapons.