Fear of Prithvi missiles drove Pakistan to transfer nuclear technology to North Korea

With an eccentric despot like Kim Jong-un at the helm and a nuclear arsenal at its disposal, North Korea has emerged as a major threat to global peace. Despite UN sanctions and threats by the US, Kim just refuses to bog down and continues to make statements that reek of hostility. Whether maverick Kim will actually invite war or will just be content with chest thumping is something that remains to be seen.

Now that North Korea has nukes, who is to be blamed for it? Is it the USSR, which signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with North Korea in 1959 or Pakistan, which is said to given North Korea the centrifuge technology, a key to producing weapons-grade radioactive material.


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