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North Korean Counterfeiting of U.S. Currency
March 22, 2006
By: Raphael F. Perl, Dick K. Nanto
CRS report on allegations of North Korean counterfeiting of U.S. currency. | READ MORE
U.S. Assistance to North Korea: Fact Sheet
January 31, 2006
By: Mark Manyin
This January 2006 CRS report summarizes U.S. aid to the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea. | READ MORE
North Korea: Economic Sanctions
June 16, 2005
By: Dianne Rennack
CRS report summarizing U.S. sanctions against North Korea. | READ MORE
Foreign Assistance to North Korea (2005)
May 26, 2005
By: Mark E. Manyin
The report provides a background on international asssistance to North Korea. It discusses food assistance, energy assistance, economic interations, and U.S. policy options for aid to North Korea. | READ MORE
North Korean Supporters in Japan: Issues for U.S. Policy
November 7, 2003
By: Emma Chanlett-Avery
Congressional Research Service report on Chosen Soren, a pro-DPRK organization of ethnic Koreans in Japan. | READ MORE
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: Latest Developments
By: Sharon Squassoni
A Congressional Research Service Report concerning North Korea's successful test of a nuclear bomb in October 2006. | READ MORE
The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis
By: Dick K. Nanto, Emma Chanlett-Avery
U.S.-South Korea Relations
By: Mark E. Manyin, Mary Beth Nikitin, Emma Chanlett-Avery, Ian E. Rinehart, William H. Cooper
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues
By: Mary Beth Nikitin
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. Little detailed open-source information is available about the DPRK’s nuclear weapons production capabilities, warhead sophistication, the scope and success of its uranium enrichment program, or extent of its proliferation activities. In total, it is estimated that North Korea has between 30 and 50 kilograms of separated plutonium, enough for at least half a dozen nuclear weapons. While North Korea’s weapons program has been plutonium-based from the start, in the past decade, intelligence emerged pointing to a second route to a bomb using highly enriched uranium. North Korea openly acknowledged a uranium enrichment program in 2009, but has said its purpose is theproduction of fuel for nuclear power. In November 2010, North Korea showed visiting American experts early construction of a 100 MWT light-water reactor and a newly built gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant, both at the Yongbyon site. The North Koreans claimed the enrichment plant was operational, but this has not been independently confirmed. U.S. officials have said that it is likely other, clandestine enrichment facilities exist. A February 2012 announcement commits North Korea to moratoria on nuclear and long-range missile testing as well as uranium enrichment suspension at Yongbyon under IAEA monitoring. | READ MORE