Today, almost 63 years after an Armistice Agreement ended the daily combat of the Korean War, the Korean peninsula is still heavily armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry. This status quo, however, is far from static; unchecked nuclear weapons development by North Korea poses a growing security threat to South Korea and Japan, to the US-ROK and US-Japan alliances, and to the US mainland. The North's expanding nuclear arsenal, coupled with reluctance within the US-ROK alliance to “think the unthinkable” regarding nuclear war, elevates the North's threat projection and contributes significantly toward security disequilibrium in Northeast Asia.
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