S. with United Nations interests, which has traditionally not been a guarantee. This would combine with the established potential of counter-terrorist cells to strike on U.S. soil to place unprecedented emphasis on securing U.S. borders from entities clearly designated as enemies of the U.S. Such an enemy list that includes a nuclear power such as North Korea could therefore pose grave consequences for the U.S. And for the entire world.
The history of North Korea's nuclear program has frequently been shrouded in secrecy, sheltered from the IAEA and denounced by the United Nations Security Council. With the announcement of the arrival of the nation as a nuclear power, there is little for North Korea to shield from the rest of the world beyond the tenuous nature of its political machine. It remains to be seen if North Korea can maintain the political stability that goes hand-in-hand with legitimate diplomatic relations that would tie it to the other six-party nations. For now, its presence in a global context is much like a metaphorical phenom pitcher who possesses a blazing fastball and little control. Its ability to...
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nuclear Weapons Program.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/nuke.htm
McDonald, Mark. "North Korea Suggests Libya Should Have Kept Nuclear Program"
New York Times (New York), March 24, 2011. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/asia/25korea.html
O'Hanlon, Michael. Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal With a Nuclear North
Korea. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2003.
Pollack, Jonathan. "North Korea's Nuclear Policy to 2015: Three Scenarios." Asia Policy vol. 3 (January 2007): 105-123.
Sigal, Leon. Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press. 1998.
White House. National Security Strategy. May, 2010.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strate
gy.pdf
