Naval War College Review
Abstract
North Korea’s prime motive for devel- oping and possessing nuclear weapons is probably regime security. Leader Kim Jong-Il’s rationale would be that absent weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the international community would find some way to dismantle a repressive, autocratic regime that is completely out of phase with twenty-first-century norms. Authors Helen Purkitt and Stephen Burgess argue in their analysis of South Africa’s weapons of mass destruction programs that in the latter part of the twentieth century
Recommended Citation
Stevenson, Jonathan
(2006)
"South Africa’s Weapons of Mass Destruction,,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 59:
No.
3, Article 14.
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https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol59/iss3/14
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