Hugh Griffiths was Head of the Countering Illicit Trafficking–Mechanism Assessment Project (CIT-MAP) at SIPRI and was seconded to the United Nations Panel of Experts monitoring the UN sanctions on North Korea.
North Korea has nuclear weapons. How did it manage to get them quietly? Donald Trump is under the impression that as US president he could convince Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to disarm his nuclear weapons and make peace with South Korea. But how was it possible that one of the poorest countries in the world could acquire the knowledge to produce nuclear-tipped rockets?