Research North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program

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North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program
Whether it's a Pukguksong-2 or Scud-ER, North Korea has amassed excellent skills and knowledge incrementally in developing new weapons. North Korea is committed to turning from liquid fuel rocket engine to solid fuel-powered engine in its attempt to improve its weaponry system hence signaling a breakthrough in their acts. Jong Kim Un government now focuses on distant targets as advancement in their nuclear and missile programs.
It is without a doubt that North Korea has been vastly expanding its nuclear program in all aspects, thus sending shocks all over the world. North Korea has been committed in the recent years in investing its plutonium reactors and setting up uranium enhancement infrastructure (Niksch 16-17). The North Korean leader turned back and deafened his ears against world leaders who have tried to condemn his aggressiveness (Dingli Web). Not even intense diplomatic and economic isolation pressed against the country has had any effect on their agenda (Moore 32-33). Interestingly, North Korea is viewed by the world as too poor to double the size of its arsenal, and perhaps it's this belittling that makes it more successful than before in its nuclear program. North Korea's weapon capability can be termed as a progressive growth that may see the country posing a significant threat to the world (Sang-Hun Web).
North Korea sees nuclear weapons as a way to guarantee the security of the regime by being virtually indestructible to an external threat. The lesson learned from the 1991 Persian Gulf War could have triggered the need to have a revolution in military affairs and a more complex weapon instead of just relying on military might (“Arms Control Association” Web). Kim Jong II succeeded in his plans to produce nuclear weapons and a way to deliver them to protect his regime after he was described as a member of the “Axis of Evil” in 2001. Uncertainty surrounding North Korea gave it an advantage of developing its nuclear because any attack on its soil by its enemies could trigger a nuclear response. It, therefore, leaves no doubt that the North Korea's nuclear program could be its survival strategy (“Arms Control Association” Web).
North Korea's pursuance of the nuclear weapons program has been in existence for decades, although it first tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006 and several other preceding successful tests (“Arms Control Association” Web). The country has admitted that it has the weapons and even threatened to annihilate its enemies, even though it has been vague about its nukes making little to be known about its nuclear programs (Sanger, and Landler Web). Ostensibly, apart from being an isolated country, any information leaving the country is tightly controlled making its nukes be based on guesses and estimates?
While some experts argue that North Korea has less than ten nuclear weapons, there is a feeling that with its nuclear complex in Yongbyon, enough plutonium, and enriched uranium, it can...