Research Paper on:
Unconventional Weapons Sought by North Korea

Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
U.S. has suspected North Korea of possessing nuclear weapons for some time, recent events make that suspicion considerably more valid. Valid enough, in fact, that on January 30, 2002  U.S. President George W. Bush made it clear that the impending U.S. war against terrorism was not only going to include Afghanistan but the "axis of evil" as a whole,  an axis defined to include North Korea, Iraq and Iran (Cha, 2002). The question of just how the U.S. should proceed in its actions concerning North Korea is, however,  quite controversial. The concerns Bush delineated in his January 2002 State of the Union Address were indeed well-founded. It has  been recognized for a couple of years that North Korea had missiles capable of reaching U.S. military bases in South Korea as well as in Japan (Harrison, 2000). Just  recently North Korea, despite protests from the U.S., has recently reactivated a nuclear reactor which is capable of producing weapons grade material. The question as to how the U.S.  should respond to North Koreas obvious quest to amass unconventional weapons, however, is highly controversial. Those who support North Korea point out that she is a sovereign country with  the right to arm herself as she sees fit. Others, however, perceive this direction as a world threat and one which warrants U.S. intervention. Cha (2002) points out  that essentially there are three questions which must be answered in regard to the North Korean Quest for unconventional weapons. These are:  "are these weapons basically built out of insecurity, metaphorically as shields to ensure against acts by the United States and others to