1. By Elizabeth Christianson, Emi Sakamoto, Ava Rogers, and Jevon Cloy
North Korea
By Elizabeth Christianson, Emi Sakamoto, Ava Rogers, and Jevon Cloy

2. What is the issue? 1985 NK signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1994 NK signs nuclear weapon agreement w/ USA
October 2002 Bush administration discovers NK secret nuclear weapons program (NK admitted)
January 10, 2003 NK withdrawals from NPT
April 2003 NK declares they have nuclear weapons
2005 they say they’ll give it up for energy support from China, USA, Russia, and South Korea
2006 NK successfully tests first nuclear weapon
February 13, 2007 NK agrees to close its main nuclear reactor for an aid package worth $400 million
September 30, 2007 NK signs agreement to disable nuclear weapons facility (six-party talks Bejing
December 31, 2007 NK misses deadline to disable weapons facility

3. What is the issue? (continued)
May 25, 2009 NK announces second nuclear test
February 29, 2012 NK agrees to moratorium on long-range missile launches and nuclear activity at the nation’s major nuclear facility for food aid
May 24, 2012 SK’s Defense Ministry spokesman says NK appears ready to carry out a nuclear test (satellite)
January NK’s National Defense Commission says it will continue nuclear testing and long range rocket launches (targeting US) (in defiance of US)
February 12, 2013 third nuclear test (first under Kim Jong Un)
May 6, 2015 deputy director of NK think tank says the country has missile capability to strike US mainland (“would do so if US ‘forces their hand’”)
December 12, 2015 NK adds hydrogen bomb to its arsenal
2016 claims they have many different kinds of weaponry
July 25, 2017 NK threatens a nuclear strike on “the heart of the US”
August 9, 2017 NK’s military is “examining the operational plan” to strike areas around the US territory of Guam
September 3, 2017 NK carries out sixth test of a nuclear weapon

4. When and why did conflict start?
1948: Korea is divided in two, Soviet supports North, US supports South
: Korean War
1998: North Korea fires their first long range missile
2002: US names North Korea part of a axes of evil
2003: North Korea withdraws from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2006: North Korea conducts their first underground nuclear test
Kim Jong-il dies and Kim Jong-un takes over as dictator

5. North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities
Is North Korea using plutonium or uranium. If they are using uranium that tells us that their program has come a long way since 2006 and if they are using uranium then they can produce nuclear weapons very quickly and easier in secrecy.
The Us and South Korea both believe that North Korea has more sites that are for uranium enrichment because the country has lots of uranium ore on hand.
North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities
To launch a nuclear attack, you have to fit a warhead into the missile. North Korea says they have miniaturized a nuclear warhead but experts doubt that claim.
Info leaked from the Washington Post in August 2017, says that US intelligent officials say that North Korea is capable of miniaturization.
Japan’s defense ministry says that its possible that North Korea can miniaturize a warhead
Experts don’t think that North Korea can hit mainland America but they can hit Alaska or Hawaii

6. Why does North Korea want to bomb the United States?
Wanted revenge after U.S. bombed Korea
They are a communist country
Still angry that the U.S. bombed Korea and leveled their country. Thousands of lives were lost and most buildings were gone.

7. What are we doing about North Korea and what can we do?
Increase sanctions (A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule)
A stronger national security policy.
Strengthen missile defenses in Asia
Negotiate with north Korea (pay them to stop making bombs)
“Boycott” North Korea by cutting of their oil supply and stop buying and selling from them.

8. How is culture involved?
Communism
Gets paid based on how well you do
Have to give your money
Chairman of the workers’ party and supreme leader of North Korea
“For decades North Korea has been one of the world's most secretive societies. It is one of the few countries still under nominally communist rule”

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