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- Title
North Korea's CB Weapons: Threat and Capability.
- Authors
Kim, Kyoung-Soo
- Abstract
Compared to the long-running problem of nuclear weapons development, the issue of North Korea's chemical/biological weapons threat began to gain momentum very recently, notably since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States last year. More recently, in his State of Union message to Congress, the US president alerted the world about the danger of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction including its chemical/biological threat. According to the ROK Defense White Paper, North Korea may have already produced somewhere between 2,500-5,000 tons of various lethal chemicals and it is also suspected of maintaining numerous facilities for cultivating and producing the anthrax virus and other forms of biological weapons. On the international level, North Korea has not yet acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which was concluded in 1993 under the auspices of the United Nations. Furthermore, it has paid little attention to the international efforts to strengthen the verification regime in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1972). Against this backdrop, this paper attempts to go into detail regarding the whole range of North Korea's CB weapons threat including its potential capability for deploying such systems. The author also refers to the military implications in terms of war-fighting strategy.
- Publication
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2002, Vol 14, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1016-3271
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10163270209464014