North Korea - Nukes Exporter?
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Published Date: 05 February 2022
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North Korea - Nukes Exporter?, 5 February 2022
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The advanced capabilities of North Korea regarding space, long-range missiles, and nuclear weapons evolve North Korea as a significant global Nuke player with the ability to carry out long-range nukes, yet without any real inspection of North Korea's nuclear programme by the international community, and importantly, without any control over whether exports of nuclear weapons took place and to whom, either as a final product-nukes ready-to-use or as a nuclear technology for producing nukes, both to formal country actors and to non-formal country actors.
This situation increases the global security risk, so several important questions arise:
Has North Korea become an exporter of nuclear weapons?
Is North Korea exporting ready-to-use nuclear weapons?
Is North Korea exporting nuclear technology for producing nukes?
Is North Korea exporting nuclear weapons to formal country actors that have no ability to produce nukes or in the case that they have restrictions to produce nukes?
Is North Korea exporting nuclear weapons to non-formal country actors, such as resistance groups or terror groups?
Is it possible to reverse the course of the nuclear programme of North Korea via sanctions?
Is it possible to monitor and control the export of nuclear weapons by North Korea?
Is it possible to control to whom North Korea exporting long-range missiles or nuclear weapons?
Why has North Korea not yet joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), despite its close relations with China?
Does excluding North Korea from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) allow for a situation where the SCO is a 'clean military and economic alliance', while North Korea can operate freely without any restriction or control by any alliance?
Is North Korea acting independently regarding the developing and testing of its long-range missiles and nuclear programme without the need to get approval from its patron China?
Does North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's rapid weight loss signal that he has a major health problem that could spark a "successor conflict" in the nuclear-armed country, or vice versa, does it signal that the North Korean leader is under an "obesity control program" aimed at minimising health problems in order to achieve long-term leadership?
Is it possible to restrict nuclear programmes in some countries while allowing nuclear programmes to be operated in other countries in terms of ‘Why only us and not also you’?
Assuming that the use of advanced nukes may destroy the livelihood on Earth, then will the solution to disarm nuclear weapons via the Nuclear Weapons Convention lower the risk?
