Don't Forget About North Korea's Nukes

Eyes have been focused on the succession underway in North Korea, where Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il’s pudgy third son, appears to be being groomed for power.

But attention can also usefully be focused in another direction: North Korea’s continuing efforts to produce nuclear weapons via uranium enrichment. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has just produced a highly detailed new study of the subject. North Korea, its authors, David Albright and Paul Brannan, observe, “has stated it intends to build a large enrichment plant this decade, and there is no reason to doubt its intentions.”