Severity 4 — Severe🌐 foreign policy09 October 2006
First Nuclear Weapons Test
North Korea conducted its first underground nuclear test on 9 October 2006, in defiance of years of international negotiations aimed at denuclearisation. The UN Security Council responded with Resolution 1718, imposing sanctions that deepened the country's international isolation.
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Kim Jong-il — Workers' Party of Korea
In power 1994–2011
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