THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN NORTH KOREA: A PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Abstract
The proliferation issue of nuclear weapons in North Korea is becoming a
more serious problem to the international community. North Korea has been
manufacturing and developing nuclear weapons technology, which receives many
critics by the international community expressing that North Korea is being noncompliance
with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
1968. The criticism emerged following the North Korea withdrawal from the NPT
1968. Its withdrawal reasoning seems very hard to be justified after series of noncompliance
behavior conducted by North Korea and the legitimacy of its
withdrawal is being debated. By using normative legal research, the research aims
to determine the status of North Korea upon its withdrawal from the NPT 1968
based on the withdrawal procedure that is required in the Article X of the NPT
1968. The result shows that North Korea is still a member and it is bound by the
obligations contained in the Treaty and to make progress on a complete nuclear
disarmament regime.