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North Korea's proliferation and closed door are a hardening threat

Claim

North Korea's advancing proliferation and its closed, hardening posture are a growing threat that must be contained.

Normative Conclusion

Hardening threat, fraying pressure

Keywords

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Activity Timeline

Where this position appears

5 positions

Korean Peninsula standoff356

Hardening threat, fraying pressureWestern and Allied States66 pub.

North Korean ballistic and nuclear missile programme216

Proliferation threat requiring containmentWestern and Allied States59 pub.

North Korea's alignment with Russia91

Blood-for-technology transactionWestern and Allied States61 pub.

China's patronage of North Korea11

Matched Events

North Korea launches multiple short-range ballistic missiles

Apr 19, 202613

North Korea fires 10 ballistic missiles during US-South Korea drills

Mar 14, 202612

North Korea fires missiles into the sea, dismisses South Korea's diplomatic outreach

Apr 8, 202610

North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles in two rounds of tests

Apr 8, 20268

North Korea's Kim Jong Un welcomes Belarus leader Lukashenko in Pyongyang