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  • The Controversial History of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons and the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program

  • By: Charles River Editors
  • Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
  • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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The Controversial History of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons and the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
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North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism. But the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themselves in.

North Korea would be horrific enough if it was a fictional place, but its nuclear weapons program is all too real. On September 17, 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted another nickname of the type he has infamously coined for his opponents: "I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night. Asked him how Rocket Man is doing. Long gas lines forming in North Korea. Too bad!"

The "Rocket Man" in question, of course, was none other than the notoriously brutal and wildly erratic North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. Capitalizing on the viral nature of the controversial tweet, Trump repeated the nickname just a few days later in his speech before the UN General Assembly. He warned the congregation of fidgety ambassadors about the grave threats posed by North Korea's depraved regime: "The United States had great strength and patience, but if forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.... Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

Needless to say, the rumors regarding Iran's nuclear capabilities and the murky nature of the regime have understandably left many a nation and their leaders on the edges of their seats. Experts insist that the Iranian propaganda program, which many say out-rival even North Korea's, is chiefly responsible for entrenching into its masses a resentment of the West, particularly the United States and Israel, and their liberal ideals. Unlike North Korea, which proudly walls itself off from the rest of civilization, the Iranian propaganda mills are constantly refurbishing themselves so as to appeal to a younger and more impressionable demographic.

Since the Iranian Revolution, Western nations and their intelligence agencies have struggled to fully grasp what goes on in Iran. The last decade has featured the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, the use of sophisticated cyber-attacks like Stuxnet, the construction of a hidden enrichment facility underneath a mountain, ongoing arguments over the nature of Iran’s nuclear program, efforts to determine whether there was potential procurement and testing of materials that would be used in nuclear weapons, debates over ballistic missiles, and a 2015 agreement between Iran and several world powers that remains a controversial issue to this day. There is even substantial concern that Iran and North Korea are jointly working on their nuclear programs, with Iranian scientists witnessing North Korean nuclear weapons tests and North Korean scientists in Iran overseeing research and development.

©2017 Charles River Editors (P)2017 Charles River Editors
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A Primer

A good primer for somebody who doesn't know too much about the history of the nuclear programs in the DRPK and Iran. The narrator needs to work on their speaking though. I can forgive some of the foreign word mistakes but the English ones I can't.

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