Preface = 2 History: Disarmament Diplomacy with North Korea = 5 North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Programme = 27 North Korea’s Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Programmes = 49 North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Programme = 63 The Conventional Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula = 85 Conclusion = 101 Footnotes = 108 Appendices: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), London, Moscow and Washington DC, 1 July 1968 = 114 Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula (NSDD), Seoul, 31 December 1991 = 118 Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Geneva, 21 October 1994 = 119.