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Understanding the Threat of a Nuclear North Korea

Why Pyongyang's announcement makes the region uneasy

Monday, May 25, 2009

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North Korea says it carried out an underground nuclear test, prompting widespread international concern. Pyongyang says the device that it detonated was more powerful than a previous one tested in 2006. Meanwhile, a news agency in South Korea says the country also test-fired a total of three short-range missiles. The Takeaway is joined by Dr. Jim Walsh, a specialist in international security and a research associate at the M.I.T's Securities Studies Program.
"Normally we would have thought of this as bargaining behavior, but North Korea is trying to create a crisis to improve their leverage going into a negotiation."
—MIT Security Studies Professor Jim Walsh on North Korea's motivation to test nuclear missiles
  • Guests:
  • Jim Walsh (Specialist in international security and research associate at the MIT's Security Studies Program)

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