North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence
Sung Chull Kim
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Paperback. North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. This volume offers a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security. Editor(s): Kim, Sung Chull; Cohen, Michael D. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 tables, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D. Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan must also come to terms ... Read more
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D. Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan must also come to terms ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781626164536
SKU
V9781626164536
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Sung Chull Kim
Sung Chull Kim is Humanities Korea Professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University. He is also editor of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding and the author or editor of several books including North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance. Michael D. Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Security ... Read more
Reviews for North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence
[Has] a strong cast of characters [and] is a good place to go for an introduction.
Peterson Institute for International Economics A valuable new volume of scholarly essays.
New York Review of Books
Peterson Institute for International Economics A valuable new volume of scholarly essays.
New York Review of Books