7. North Korea
Points – 11
We’ve reached the first country on our list of countries that have weapons of mass destruction to have a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has an active nuclear weapons program and has been known to test nuclear explosive devices over the years, even twice this year.
North Korea has been known to deploy short and medium-range ballistic missiles and has even launched long-range rockets. It is also believed that North Korea possesses biological and chemical weapons programs, although it is unclear just how far along they’ve come in their research and development program.
The country withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons back in 2003 and made a point out of making their testing done as publicly as possibly. They’re also not a part of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty as it’s been pretty obvious. The country is also not a part of the Chemical Weapons Convention or a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime. The country is, however, part of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Geneva Protocol. Despite the latter two, they are suspected of conducting an offensive biological weapons program anyway.
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