Toxic Inheritance: Assessing North Korea's Chemical Weapons Capability
James Byrne, Joe Byrne, Dr Matthew Harries, Lennie Phillips OBE and Dr Giangiuseppe Pili
8 March 20235 Minute Read
Public information about North Korea’s potential chemical weapons capability is far scarcer than information about its nuclear weapons programme. RUSI’s latest project aims to fill that gap by using open source tools and remote sensing technologies to evaluate North Korea’s capacity to produce chemical weapons.
Read our interactive project overview to find out more.
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Global Affairs Canada
This project is made possible by the support of Global Affairs Canada.
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PRODUCED BY
James Byrne
Former Director, OSIA
Joe Byrne
Research Fellow
Open Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Dr Matthew Harries
Former Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Lennie Phillips OBE
Senior Research Fellow, Chemical Weapons
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Dr Giangiuseppe Pili
RUSI Associate Fellow; Assistant Professor, James Madison University