China-North Korea Relations (open access)

China-North Korea Relations

This report provides a brief survey of China-North Korea relations, assesses China's objectives and actions, and raises policy issues for the United States.
Date: January 22, 2010
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.; Manyin, Mark E. & Dumbaugh, Kerry
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues (open access)

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues

This report summarizes what is known from open sources about the North Korean nuclear weapons program--including weapons-usable fissile material and warhead estimates--and assesses current developments in achieving denuclearization.
Date: May 5, 2009
Creator: Nikitin, Mary Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Terrorism List Removal (open access)

North Korea: Terrorism List Removal

This report discusses the issue of North Korea's inclusion on the U.S. list of terrorism-supporting countries that has been a major issue in U.S.-North Korean diplomacy since 2000, particularly in connection with negotiations over North Korea's nuclear program. North Korea demanded that the Clinton and Bush Administration remove North Korea from the terrorism support list. Secretary of State Clinton said on June 7, 2009, that the Obama Administration would consider reinstating North Korea on the list.
Date: January 6, 2010
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy (open access)

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy

This report provides background information on the nuclear negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program that began in the early 1990s under the Clinton Administration. It also provides information on other concerns that the U.S. has with North Korea, and discusses U.S. engagement activities with North Korea.
Date: January 5, 2010
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Economic Leverage and Policy Analysis (open access)

North Korea: Economic Leverage and Policy Analysis

This report discusses the current political and economic state of North Korea, especially in regards to cooperative international efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program and its trading relationships with China and Russia, especially.
Date: August 14, 2009
Creator: Nanto, Dick K. & Chanlett-Avery, Emma
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy (open access)

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy

This report provides background information on the nuclear negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Since August 2003, negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs have involved six governments: the United States, North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Date: May 4, 2009
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy (open access)

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy

This report provides background information on the nuclear negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Since August 2003, negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs have involved six governments: the United States, North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Terrorism List Removal (open access)

North Korea: Terrorism List Removal

This report discusses the issue of North Korea's inclusion on the U.S. list of terrorism-supporting countries that has been a major issue in U.S.-North Korean diplomacy since 2000, particularly in connection with negotiations over North Korea's nuclear program.
Date: April 15, 2009
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy (open access)

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy

This report provides background information on the nuclear negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Since August 2003, negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs have involved six governments: the United States, North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Terrorism List Removal? (open access)

North Korea: Terrorism List Removal?

This report discusses the removal of North Korea's inclusion on the U.S. list of terrorism-supporting countries.
Date: July 10, 2008
Creator: Niksch, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Terrorism List Removal? (open access)

North Korea: Terrorism List Removal?

This report discusses the possibility of removing North Korea from the U.S. terrorism list. It includes background on U.S. negotiations with North Korea, various terrorist state designations, the process and rationale for adding or removing countries from the list, and other related information.
Date: June 1, 2008
Creator: Niksch, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation (open access)

North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation

This report covers the overall U.S.-North Korea relationship, with an emphasis on nuclear diplomacy. Negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program have occupied the past three U.S. administrations, even as some analysts anticipated a collapse of the isolated authoritarian regime. North Korea has been the recipient of over $1 billion in U.S. aid (though none since 2009) and the target of dozens of U.S. sanctions.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Rinehart, Ian E.; Nikitin, Mary Beth & Park, Sungtae
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (open access)

North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

This report briefly reviews North Korea's ballistic missile program. In summer 2007, North Korea tested modern, short-range missiles. In February 2009, South Korea reported the DPRK had deployed a new intermediate-range missile.
Date: February 24, 2009
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis (open access)

The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis

This report provides an overview of the North Korean economy, its external economic relations, reforms, and U.S. policy options.
Date: August 26, 2008
Creator: Nanto, Dick K. & Chanlett-Avery, Emma
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Crime-for-Profit Activities (open access)

North Korean Crime-for-Profit Activities

This report discusses the North Korean regime and its involvement in the production and trafficking of illicit drugs, counterfeit currency, cigarettes, and pharmaceuticals.
Date: August 25, 2008
Creator: Wyler, Liana Sun & Nanto, Dick K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation (open access)

North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation

This report provides background information on the negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program that began in the early 1990s under the Clinton Administration. As US policy toward Pyongyang evolved through the George W. Bush presidency and into the Obama Administration, the negotiations moved from mostly bilateral to the multilateral Six-Party Talks. Although the negotiations have reached some key agreements, major problems with the implementation have persisted. With talks suspended since 2009, concern about proliferation to other actors has grown.
Date: January 17, 2012
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (open access)

North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

This report updates recent information concerning, specifically, North Korea’s long-range ballistic missile program. On July 4-5, 2006, North Korea test-launched seven ballistic missiles, including a new Taepo Dong 2 that failed soon after launch. Apparently successful shorter-range missile tests included some combination of SCUDs and No Dongs. More recently, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test and said it would deploy nuclear weapons on their ballistic missiles, although there is no evidence they are doing so.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (open access)

North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

This report updates earlier information concerning North Korea's ballistic missile development and that country's technological missile-launch capabilities.
Date: October 1, 2003
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assistance to North Korea (open access)

Assistance to North Korea

This report summarizes the U.S. assistance to North Korea.
Date: April 1, 2009
Creator: Manyin, Mark E. & Nikitin, Mary Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Actions, 1950 - 2007: Controversy and Issues (open access)

North Korean Actions, 1950 - 2007: Controversy and Issues

This report provides information on reported instances of North Korean provocations against South Korea, the United States, and Japan between June 1950 and 2007 and related actions. Reports of North Korean involvement in drug trafficking and "political and other extrajudicial killing" are outside the purview of this report.
Date: April 20, 2007
Creator: Fischer, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extending NASA’s Exemption from the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (open access)

Extending NASA’s Exemption from the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act

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Date: May 8, 2008
Creator: Behrens, Carl E. & Niktin, Mary Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Crisis: Possible Military Options (open access)

North Korean Crisis: Possible Military Options

This report discusses the geography and military balance on the Korean Peninsula, presents the range of military options that might be applied there to specific U.S. political objectives, and assesses possible consequences. Military options discussed are: status quo, improved defensive posture, enforce sanctions, preemptive strike against nuclear facilities, and preemptive war.
Date: July 29, 2003
Creator: Bruner, Edward F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Assistance to North Korea: Fact Sheet (open access)

U.S. Assistance to North Korea: Fact Sheet

This report summarizes U.S. aid to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK, also known as North Korea).
Date: October 11, 2006
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (open access)

North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

This report updates recent information concerning, specifically, North Korea's long-range ballistic missile program. On July 4-5, 2006, North Korea test-launched seven ballistic missiles, including a new Taepo Dong 2 that failed soon after launch. The apparently successful shorter-range missile tests included some combination of SCUDs and No Dongs.
Date: July 6, 2006
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.
System: The UNT Digital Library