North Korea’s Nuclear Weaponization Program

North Korea’s nuclear weaponziation program has been an irritant both for the region it sits in and for the international community since the very first nuclear crisis of 1994. Unfortunately, since that time, the threat from North Korea’s nuclear program – both from proliferation and from the threat of Pyongyang initiating a nuclear attack – has not abated since the “solving” of the nuclear crisis in 1994 with the implementation of the Agreed Framework. ¹ Rather, this threat has continued to grow. In fact, since 1994, North Korea has implemented an increase in this threat by diversifying the types of weapons (now both Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium), and the types of platforms that would carry these weapons (warheads) – with short-range, medium-range, intermediate-range, and potentially intercontinental range ballistic missiles that could bring death and destruction to nation-states far beyond North Korea’s borders.