North Korea's Strategic Culture and Its Evolving Nuclear Strategy

Authors

Shane Smith

Files

Description

This book chapter, published in Crossing Nuclear Thresholds: Leveraging Sociocultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), assesses how North Korea’s peculiar strategic culture might impact its decisions over nuclear doctrine and command and control arrangements, should Pyongyang continue its drive for an operational nuclear weapons capability.

Document Type

Book Chapter

Region(s)

East Asia

Topic(s)

Nuclear Policy

Publication Date

5-2018

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Cham

ISBN

978-3-319-72669-4

Keywords

Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Policy, weapons of mass destruction, security strategy, strategic culture

Recommended Citation

Smith, Shane, "North Korea's Strategic Culture and Its Evolving Nuclear Strategy" (2018). Books and Book Chapters. 7.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/wmdcenter-books/7