North Korea Nuclear Program Crisis

“North Korea’s Nuclear Program”

This paper focuses on the event of the nuclear weapons program crisis in the East Asia realm and its effects on the regions from near and far. I am only going to focuses on a couple of countries in that region for simplicity. China (The People’s Republic of China), the superpower to the west; Japan, the superpower of the east, North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea); South Korea, the bottom half of the Korean Peninsula, as well as the U.S. involvement in the nuclear weapons program.

North Korea’s nuclear program based in Yongbyon continues to build upon a growing arsenal that threatens U.S. cities and other countries. On several fronts, the U.S. is making efforts to control the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons-- the weapons of mass destruction. All of this comes in the wake of the U.S. confronting officials in Pyongyang with U.S. evidence of the secret uranium project, which violated the 1994 Ag...