🇰🇵Is North Korea shopping for mass destruction? Dr Daniel Salisbury provides insights into North Korea's illicit procurement networks for missile components and dual-use technologies, explaining how the country bypasses international sanctions. Read more👇 newsweek.com/north-korea-mi…

Shopping for Mass Destruction: North Korea’s Illicit Procurement Networks rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Check out our new report by Daniel Salisbury that examines North Korea’s procurement networks, particularly in view of North Korea’s programmatic successes and recent geopolitical shifts in Russia’s relationship with the country. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

🚨🚨🚨Our new case studies handbook on the #nuclearsecurity implications of #CFSIs in the nuclear #supplychain is now out! 🚨🚨🚨 This handbook was published for an IAEA CRP. You can read it here: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publ… But what are CFSIs & why are they so important? 🧵1/10

CFSIs (counterfeit, fraudulent and suspect items) do not undergo rigorous quality assurance procedures as legitimate items do, and may also deviate from prescribed specifications. The term “CFSIs” encompasses not only “fake goods” but also falsified certificates & docs. 🧵2/10

Less attention has been given to the potential #nuclearsecurity implications of such items. This could include adversarial insiders embedding CFSIs in a system to intentionally create an accident or malicious actors exploiting weaknesses created by pre-existing CFSIs. 🧵4/10

Our handbook identifies 12 cases, 7 nuclear and 5 from other critical industries, where CFSIs have created significant disruption and vulnerability. Our examples include fraudulent EDG parts leading to fires, and counterfeit bolts bringing down passenger jets. 🧵7/10

The handbook is the culmination of almost a year of open-source research to draw together existing cases of CFSIs in the public domain into one comprehensive set of examples. Our hope is that these case studies will raise awareness of just how impactful CFSIs can be. 🧵8/10

Our handbook is just one of the many outputs being produced by a team of researchers around the world working on an #IAEA coordinated research project (CRP) on the nuclear security implications of CFSI. You can learn more about the project here: iaea.org/newscenter/new… 🧵9/10

You can continue to follow the KCL team’s work on CFSIs at kcl.ac.uk/research/nucle… or at the Centre for Science & Security Studies page. 🧵10/10 (end of thread)

Looks fascinating--Can't wait to read!

Great to see our report on counterfeit, fraudulent and suspect items in print! It examines the potential impacts on the security of nuclear materials - A niche but potentially hugely consequential issue. Centre for Science & Security Studies War Studies

New publication "Securing the Nuclear Supply Chain" by Dr Sarah Tzinieris and co-authors, Zoha Naser, Daniel Salisbury, Christopher Hobbs explores the impact of counterfeit items on nuclear security. This essential handbook, developed with @IAEAorg, link here: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles…

Tennessee man charged with funding North Korea's WMD Programme through remote IT work "The DPRK has long used overseas workers to raise revenue which has likely been channelled to its WMD efforts," said Dr Daniel Salisbury. Read more👇 newsweek.com/tennessee-man-…

🇷🇺🇰🇵 Is the Russia-North Korea alliance a win-win or precarious? "Ukrainian sources suggest that the shells Russia has received from the DPRK are dated and are of poor quality, having a high rate of failure," said Dr Daniel Salisbury. Read more 👇 businessinsider.com/russia-allianc…

Check out our new report by Daniel Salisbury that examines North Korea’s procurement networks, particularly in view of North Korea’s programmatic successes and recent geopolitical shifts in Russia’s relationship with the country. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Winter The Washington Quarterly is live online! Read Rabia Akhtar & Manpreet Sethi on ETs and deterrence in Southern Asia, Doreen Horschig on ETs and Israel-Iran, Anna Nadibaidze on Russia’s AI promises, Anna Péczeli on arms control for ETs, and J. Luis Rodriguez on arms control lessons from Latin America.

Also read Sara Bjerg Moller on NATO nuclear debates, @linde_desmaele on European NATO burden sharing, Rintaro Inoue on Japan’s counterstrike, Aaron Arnold and Daniel Salisbury on “remote sanctions-busting,” and Juan Luis Manfredi, Ricardo Arredondo 🇦🇷, and Leesa Danzek on influencers and diplomacy.

How Assad’s downfall could expose secrets of North Korea-Syria military ties cstu.io/3e93a9

🧵With the fall of Damascus to rebel forces, new details about DPRK's longstanding weapons collaboration with Syria may come to light. What secrets could be exposed? Read more NK NEWS cstu.io/c0c5c3