North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International Order

Taylor & Francis

North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International OrderA Comparative Perspective\nAuthor(s): Patrick McEachern, Jaclyn OBrien McEachern\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138295124, 978-1138295124\nSynopsis\nThis book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations.\n\nWhile government officials, including a series of American presidents, strategic policy documents and outside analysts have repeatedly noted that North Korea and Iran occupy a similar challenge, the commonality has largely been left unexplored. This book argues that North Korea and Iran are uniquely common in the world today in their illicit nuclear aspirations in violation of their legal commitments made under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The work evaluates alternative arguments, some of which sustain that the two states should be grouped .