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Spring

2019

Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature

Published
2019-03-14

Abstract

On 3 September 2017, North Korea tested its sixth nuclear device, causing a major seismic event and setting off landslides both physical and political. This essay puts this test into its larger historical context, explaining that North Korea’s nuclear program and its attendant environmental implications, while relatively recent developments, are a part of the peninsula’s longer history as a militarized landscape.