HAGGARD Stephan <br/><br/>
North Korea's nuclear and missile programs:  foreign absorption and domestic innovation/ 
Stephan Haggard &Tai Ming Cheung 
 -  2021 
<br/><br/> North Korea's strategic weapons innovation system is exemplary of an authoritarian mobilization model. The top leadership prioritizes the program and mobilizes the country's science, technology, and heavy industrial resources around key programs. Key to success are investments in a defense industrial infrastructure that runs from basic research and development to applied R&D, product development, and linked production capability. Although foreign borrowing is important, the country's nuclear and missile programs would not have gelled in the absence of complementary domestic investments. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>NORTH KOREA<br/>DEFENSE INNOVATION<br/>WEAPONS<br/>INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS<br/>TECHNOLOGY