Is North Korea a “master proliferator,” providing complete production facilities and extensive know-how for manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems to rogue regimes? Or is it a simple front company for passing along other country’s discarded, obsolete technology? If the latter is true, we might still have a few years left in which we can use today’s “supply-side” nonproliferation regimes to slow down and perhaps stop the spread of these dangerous weapons. If it turns out to be the former, their spread might continue unchecked.
I consider these questions—and what insight we might gain into how the DPRK does its proliferation business—in a piece for SAIS’s new webpage devoted all things North Korean.