Kim Jong Un wants North Korea to be a nuclear superpower – the real risk is a regional arms race
- Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
The recent claim by Kim Jong Un that North Korea plans to develop the world’s most powerful nuclear force may well have been more bravado than credible threat. But that doesn’t mean it can be ignored.
The best guess is that North Korea now has sufficient fissile material to build 45 to 55 nuclear weapons, three decades after beginning...
