Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests. Volume 145, The North Korean Threat, examines the strategies adopted by the United States, China, and the international community in response to the nuclear threat posed by North Korea. The volume includes a selection of documents chosen to illustrate developments in this area from 2010 through 2016, with commentary from series editor Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.
The documents in this volume include 2016 UN Security Council resolutions on North Korea, Congressional Research Service reports covering various aspects of the U.S. response to North Korea's nuclear program, a U.S. Department of Defense report prepared for Congress on military and security developments related to North Korea, and a detailed description of the U.S. sanctions program against North Korea from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a J.D. from Widener School of Law.

Introduction
A. WORSENING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES
Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.
DOCUMENT NO. 1: Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2015
DOCUMENT NO. 2: North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation, CRS Report No. R41259, Emma Chanlett-Avery, Ian E. Rinehart, and Mary Beth D. Nikitin, January 15, 2016
DOCUMENT NO. 3: North Korea: Back on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List?, CRS Report No. R43865, Mark E. Manyin et al., January 21, 2015
DOCUMENT NO. 4: Foreign Assistance to North Korea, CRS Report No. R40095, Mark E. Manyin and Mary Beth D. Nikitin, April 2, 2014
B. NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR MENACE
Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.
DOCUMENT NO. 5: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Diplomacy, CRS Report No. RL33590, Larry A. Niksch, January 5, 2010
DOCUMENT NO. 6: North Korea's Second Nuclear Test: Implications of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874, CRS Report No. R40684, Mary Beth Nikitin et al., April 15, 2010
DOCUMENT NO. 7: North Korea's 2009 Nuclear Test: Containment, Monitoring, Implications, CRS Report No. R41160, Jonathan Medalia, November 24, 2010
DOCUMENT NO. 8: North Korea's January 6, 2016, Nuclear Test, CRS Insight IN10428, Mary Beth D. Nikitin, January 7, 2016
DOCUMENT NO. 9: Iran-North Korea-Syria Ballistic Missile and Nuclear Cooperation, CRS Report No. R43480, Paul K. Kerr, Steven A. Hildreth, and Mary Beth D. Nikitin, February 26, 2016
DOCUMENT NO. 10: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues, CRS Report No. RL34256, Mary Beth Nikitin, April 3, 2013
C. ACTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES, CHINA, AND THE UNITED NATIONS
Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.
DOCUMENT NO. 11: North Korea Sanctions Program, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, November 2, 2016
DOCUMENT NO. 12: China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues, CRS Report No. RL31555, Shirley A. Kan, January 5, 2015
DOCUMENT NO. 13: United Nations Security Council Resolution 2270 (2016), March 2, 2016
DOCUMENT NO. 14: United Nations Security Council Resolution 2321 (2016), November 30, 2016