Abstract
On October, 9th 2006, North Korea annonced it had conducted a nuclear test successfully. The news struck the international community. The galloping spread of nuclear technologies and knowledge to nations that do not already have these capabilities, such as North Korea, but also Iran, is alarming.
The present file comprises five articles. The first three articles come from The Economist and were published from February 2004 to June 2006. The last two articles were published in Indian Today, an English Hindi news magazine, on July 2006.
