North Korean proliferation challenges : [electronic resource] the role of the European Union / Mark Fitzpatrick

"June 2012".

The only country to have withdrawn from the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - under circumstances of contested legality - North Korea is uniquely defiant of international norms in nearly every respect. It is the only country to have tested nuclear weapons in the 21st century, it has enough plutonium left for about eight nuclear weapons and it is now pursuing a partially hidden uranium enrichment programme.

The EU Non-Proliferation Consortium is a network of foreign policy institutions and research centres from across the EU engaged in political and security-related dialogue and discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems. The Consortium is managed jointly by SIPRI and three other institutes, in close cooperation with the representative of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The three institutes are the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

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