North Korea

Nuclear Powers of the World

Nuclear Power Treaties/Organizations• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-1963– Underground nuclear testing

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-1968• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-1996– Signed by President Bill Clinton– Not ratified by the Senate– Why? Senate reasoning:– A ban on testing would damage the safety and reliability

of America’s existing nuclear arsenal, and it would be impossible to guarantee treaty compliance by all countries.

• International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)• Missile Defense System

The United Nations-1945

United Nations

• General Assembly• Security Council• Other organizations

Security Council Goals

• To maintain international peace and security;• To develop friendly relations among nations;• To cooperate in solving international

problems and in promoting respect for human rights;• To be a center for harmonizing the actions of

nations

Security Council• Permanent and Non-Permanent Members• The Council is composed of 15 Members:• Five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United

Kingdom, and the United States• Ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General

Assembly (with end of term date):– Angola (2016)– Egypt (2017)– Japan (2017)– Malaysia (2016)– New Zealand (2016)– Senegal (2017)– Spain (2016)– Ukraine (2017)– Uruguay (2017)– Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016)

North Korea vs South Korea

• Korea Split• Korean Conflict(War)• Communism vs. Democracy• Economic and Social Comparisons(graph)

Kim Il Sung-The Great Leader and the Eternal President

• Ruled 1948-1994

Kim Jong il

• Ruled 1994-2011

Kim Jong-un

• Took office in 2011 after dad died

• Nuclear aggressiveness• Killed his uncle in

December 2013• “Deadly

Nuclear Catastrophe” with US-January 2014

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North Korea Nuclear Timeline• In 1993(and reiterated in 2003), North Korea

announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• In 1994, US and NK sign deal where US would help build two nuclear power reactors in NK

• In 2002, President Bush charges that NK, Iraq and Iran are an “Axis of Evil”

• In 2002, NK admits to having a nuclear weapons program and nullifies 1994 deal

• In 2003, the Six Party Talks start(US, SK, NK, China, Russia, Japan)

• The Six-Party Talks are a series of held since 2003 -China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the United States attend

-Purpose is to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program.

• In 2005, NK agrees to halt nuclear weapon program in exchange for security and economic and trade benefits

• Shortly thereafter, NK backs out of the deal

• In 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test(underground)

• Later in 2006, NK agrees to resume talks with the Six Party Talks

• In 2007, a new deal is reaches in which NK would halt production of nuclear weapons in exchange for $400 million of fuel and aid

• In 2008, NK destroys it’s biggest nuclear weapons plant

• In 2008, NK complains that President Bush still had not removed NK from a list of “states that support terrorism”. Bush does so the next month.

• In April, 2009, NK launches a rocket which NK says is for testing space satellite technology. Most countries don’t buy explanation.

• In May, 2009, North Korea conducted it’s second nuclear test(underground)

• In June, 2009, the United Nations put tougher economic sanctions on NK

• In February, 2013, North Korea conducted it’s third nuclear test(underground)

• In March, 2013, the United Nation put tougher sanctions on NK

• Current Six Party Talks negotiations• In February, 2014, The United Nations Commission

of Inquiry on Human Rights publishes a report on widespread human rights abuses in North Korea.

• Dennis Rodman’s Basketball Diplomacy-2014• Kim Jing-Un Missing-Not!• Kenneth Bae Released-November 2014

• December 19, 2014 - The FBI says it has concluded the North Korean government is responsible for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures. – In November, hackers broke into Sony's servers,

published private emails and information and threatened to attack movie theaters screening "The Interview," a comedy film about an assassination plot on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

• April 23, 2015 – China says that North Korea is expanding nuclear weapons arsenal(20 to 40 in the next year).

2016

• North Korea detonates their first hydrogen bomb• What is a hydrogen bomb?• United Nations Reaction