HOW DIRE A THREAT?

Discusses issues concerning the government's decision to pursue ways to enrich uranium, a precursor to nuclear-weapons production, in violation of a 1994 agreement in Pyongyang, North Korea. Threat to global security; United States policy options regarding the North Korean reactor; Kind of deal with the United States that will be acceptable to North Korea in order to give up its nuclear ambitions; Role of North Korea's economic conditions in the government's decision to produce nuclear weapons.