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The Stalker State: North Korean Proliferation and the End of American Nuclear Hegemony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Peter Hayes
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Three US administrations have failed to avoid North Korean breakout from the NonProliferation Treaty and a gaping hole in the IAEA safeguards system. Nuclear war is once again conceivable in Korea after a brief interlude in the early 1990s when this prospect all but disappeared. The North's announcement on October 4, 2006 that it intends to test a nuclear weapon underscores this failure.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e2
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