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Summary:

North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide.In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat -- he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Setting the Context
• 2. Understanding the Product: North Korea's Military Capabilities
• 3. How Do They Do it? North Korea's Illicit Financial Networks and Proliferation Modus Operandi
• 4. North Korea and Military Proliferation to Iran: Pyongyang's Most Important Customer
• 5. North Korea and Syria: A Long and Ongoing History of Military Trade
• 6. North Korean Proliferation on the African Continent
• 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications.

Author/Creator:

Bechtol, Bruce E., 1959- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: enabling violence and instability [by Bechtol, B.E.]

Subjects:

Nuclear nonproliferation

Nuclear arms control — Korea (North)

Middle East — Military relations — Korea (North)

Korea (North) — Military relations — Middle East

Africa — Military relations — Korea (North)

Korea (North) — Military relations — Africa

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

JZ6009.K7 B43 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780813175904 (electronic book)
0813175909 (electronic book)
9780813175881 [Invalid]
0813175887 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1042158904

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5437067 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15570179