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  • North Korea Sets Conditions for Talks
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    North Korea announced its conditions for resuming negotiations over its nuclear program. U.S. officials called the terms unacceptable.
  • Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 23, 2013

    April 2013
  • Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: North Korea
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 22, 2013

    April 2013
  • UN Imposes New Sanctions on N. Korea
    Arms Control Today
    April 2, 2013

    The UN Security Council on March 7 unanimously adopted a resolution imposing new sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s third nuclear test.
  • UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    March 14, 2013

    March 2013
  • North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
    Arms Control Today
    February 28, 2013

    Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test Feb. 12 at its underground testing site, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced. The blast prompted discussion of the need for a new policy toward North Korea, which had conducted a rocket launch two months earlier.
  • Prelude to an ICBM? Putting North Korea’s Unha-3 Launch Into Context
    Arms Control Today
    February 28, 2013

    Last December, after two decades of development and four failed attempts since 1998, North Korea finally boosted a small satellite into orbit using a domestically assembled Unha-3 rocket. Although the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite failed to orient itself properly and never beamed signals to earth-based stations as designed, Pyongyang nonetheless heralded the launch as an epic national achievement.
  • N. Korea Launch Spurs Talk of New Policy
    Arms Control Today
    January 15, 2013

    North Korea put a satellite into orbit Dec. 12, marking its first success in five tries over 14 years in launching a rocket with technology directly applicable to intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development.
  • Illicit N. Korean Exports Reported
    Arms Control Today
    December 4, 2012

    North Korea may have sold proliferation-sensitive materials to Myanmar and Syria in violation of UN Security Council sanctions, news organizations reported in November.
  • South Korea Extends Missile Range
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    South Korea and the United States reached an agreement allowing Seoul to extend the range of its ballistic missiles. Both countries say the increase is necessary to counter the threat posed by North Korea’s missile capabilities.
  • North Korea Makes Progress on Reactor
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    North Korea’s continued construction of a light-water reactor (LWR) that experts say could be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium is “deeply troubling,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano said last month.
  • Sanctions Seen Slowing N. Korea Progress
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Although North Korea continues “actively to defy” UN Security Council resolutions, international sanctions “appeared to have slowed” the country’s activities in areas such as development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, according to a report to the UN Security Council on the implementation of the sanctions imposed by the resolutions.
  • North Korea Urged Not to Test
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    China, Japan, and South Korea agreed not to “accept further nuclear tests or provocations from North Korea,” according to a May 13 statement by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. Lee issued the statement from Beijing at the end of a trilateral meeting in May, which included a discussion of Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
  • The Six-Party Talks at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    May 4, 2012

    May 2012
  • News Analysis: N. Korea Launches Rocket, Kills U.S. Deal
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    Defying international warnings, North Korea on April 13 fired a three-stage Unha-3 rocket with the aim of launching a satellite into orbit. The rocket failed and exploded into about 20 pieces over the West Sea (Yellow Sea) between the Korean peninsula and China, according to South Korean military officials. The launch, in effect, shattered a Feb. 29 deal made with the United States on halting all missile and nuclear activities.