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Survival and Deterrence in North Korea
Ankit Panda: Kim Jong Un and the Bomb

In ​September 2017, North Korea shocked the world by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had conducted the first test flight of a missile capable of ranging much of the United States. By the end of that year, Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state's ruler, declared that his nuclear deterrent was complete.

Today, North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile and ballistic missile arsenal continues to grow, presenting one of the most serious challenges to international security to date. Internal regime propaganda has called North Korea's nuclear forces the country's „treasured sword,” underscoring the cherished place of these weapons in national strategy. Fiercely committed to self-reliance, Kim remains determined to avoid unilateral disarmament.

Kim Jong Un and the Bomb tells the story of how North Korea-once derided in the 1970s as a „fourth-rate pipsqueak” of a country by President Richard Nixon-came to credibly threaten… (tovább)

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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020
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