"One Rogue State crisis at a time!": The United States and North Korea's nuclear weapons program

World Affairs

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 155-178

  Roehrig, Terence ^a  

^a CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPON; SECURITY THREAT;

NORTH KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037667053     PISSN: 00438200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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