FOREIGN AFFAIRS: North Korean nuclear test: implications for Middle East*

The nuclear explosion conducted by North Korea’s Stalinist regime shows that North Korea now has the means to threaten countries far from its shores, and has the potential to supply this technology to other-would-be nuclear states, including Iran.Four years ago, the United States accused the secretive Kim Jong-il regime of embarking on a nuclear weapons program, the effect of which would be to destabilise the Korean peninsula, and create security concerns for Japan and other countries.In respons…

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