Does the Non-Proliferation Regime Have Any Future?

... have too much symbolic and practical significance for Pyongyang today. We should remind that further amendments to the DPRK Constitution, promulgated in late September 2023, enshrined the country’s strategy aimed at intensifying the development of nuclear weapons to ensure “survival rights” and “war deterrence” amid North Korea’s escalating confrontation with the United States and its allies in Northeast Asia. It is also clear that any new bilateral talks with Washington or Seoul will not change Pyongyang’s position, for all the importance North Korea attaches to direct dialogue with the United States or, to a lesser extent, with its southern ...