This document provides information on North Korea's nuclear program and activities, including key nuclear treaties and organizations. It outlines North Korea's timeline of nuclear tests and withdrawals from agreements from the 1990s to present. This includes 3 underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2013 in violation of treaties, which resulted in strengthened economic sanctions from the UN. Tensions increased further in 2016 when North Korea detonated its first hydrogen bomb.

1. North Korea

3. Nuclear Powers of the World

5. Nuclear Power Treaties/Organizations
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-1963
– Underground nuclear testing
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-1968
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-1996
– Signed by President Bill Clinton
– Not ratified by the Senate
– Why? Senate reasoning:
– A ban on testing would damage the safety and
reliability of America’s existing nuclear arsenal, and it
would be impossible to guarantee treaty compliance
by all countries.
• International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)
• Missile Defense System

6. The United Nations-1945

7. United Nations
• General Assembly
• Security Council
• Other organizations

8. Security Council Goals
• To maintain international peace and security;
• To develop friendly relations among nations;
• To cooperate in solving international
problems and in promoting respect for
human rights;
• To be a center for harmonizing the actions of
nations

9. Security Council
• Permanent and Non-Permanent Members
• The Council is composed of 15 Members:
• Five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United
Kingdom, and the United States
• Ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the
General Assembly (with end of term date):
– Angola (2016)
– Egypt (2017)
– Japan (2017)
– Malaysia (2016)
– New Zealand (2016)
– Senegal (2017)
– Spain (2016)
– Ukraine (2017)
– Uruguay (2017)
– Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016)

10. North Korea vs South Korea
• Korea Split
• Korean Conflict(War)
• Communism vs. Democracy
• Economic and Social Comparisons(graph)

12. Kim Il Sung-The Great Leader and the
Eternal President
• Ruled 1948-1994

13. Kim Jong il
• Ruled 1994-2011

14. Kim Jong-un
• Took office in 2011 after
dad died
• Nuclear aggressiveness
• Killed his uncle in
December 2013
• “Deadly Nuclear
Catastrophe” with US-
January 2014
• Video

15. North Korea Nuclear Timeline
• In 1993(and reiterated in 2003), North Korea
announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty
• In 1994, US and NK sign deal where US would
help build two nuclear power reactors in NK
• In 2002, President Bush charges that NK, Iraq
and Iran are an “Axis of Evil”
• In 2002, NK admits to having a nuclear
weapons program and nullifies 1994 deal

16. • In 2003, the Six Party Talks start(US, SK, NK, China,
Russia, Japan)
• The Six-Party Talks are a series of held since 2003
-China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea,
and the United States attend
-Purpose is to dismantle North Korea's nuclear
program.
• In 2005, NK agrees to halt nuclear weapon program
in exchange for security and economic and trade
benefits
• Shortly thereafter, NK backs out of the deal

17. • In 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully
conducted its first nuclear test(underground)
• Later in 2006, NK agrees to resume talks with the
Six Party Talks
• In 2007, a new deal is reaches in which NK would
halt production of nuclear weapons in exchange for
$400 million of fuel and aid
• In 2008, NK destroys it’s biggest nuclear weapons
plant

18. • In 2008, NK complains that President Bush still had
not removed NK from a list of “states that support
terrorism”. Bush does so the next month.
• In April, 2009, NK launches a rocket which NK says is
for testing space satellite technology. Most
countries don’t buy explanation.
• In May, 2009, North Korea conducted it’s second
nuclear test(underground)
• In June, 2009, the United Nations put tougher
economic sanctions on NK

19. • In February, 2013, North Korea conducted it’s third
nuclear test(underground)
• In March, 2013, the United Nation put tougher
sanctions on NK
• Current Six Party Talks negotiations
• In February, 2014, The United Nations Commission
of Inquiry on Human Rights publishes a report on
widespread human rights abuses in North Korea.
• Dennis Rodman’s Basketball Diplomacy-2014
• Kim Jing-Un Missing-Not!
• Kenneth Bae Released-November 2014

20. • December 19, 2014 - The FBI says it has concluded
the North Korean government is responsible for a
cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
– In November, hackers broke into Sony's servers,
published private emails and information and
threatened to attack movie theaters screening "The
Interview," a comedy film about an assassination plot on
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
• April 23, 2015 – China says that North Korea is
expanding nuclear weapons arsenal(20 to 40 in the
next year).

21. 2016
• North Korea detonates their first hydrogen bomb
• What is a hydrogen bomb?
• United Nations Reaction