Alexandre Mansourov, Adjunct Associate Professor with the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, discusses the real lessons North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and his generals have taken from the Ukraine war as it unfolds (and not to Russia’s advantage). Among other likely responses, his brief argues that the war may see Pyongyang prioritizing tactical nuclear weapons development while further complicating talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

The brief is published under the “Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia” (NU-NEA) project, a collaboration between APLN, the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), and Nautilus Institute.

Andhika Yudha Prawira, a scholar at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), assesses the various unique security and nuclear safeguards challenges inherent to an emerging field of nuclear energy technology: small modular reactors (SMRs).