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PART AWeapons of mass destruction (WMD) in North Korea, also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), presents a significant security issue within the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Since 2003 when DPRK withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), they have committed numerous violations of United Nations (UN) Security Council resolutions with illegal nuclear and ballistic missile activity. Additionally, they have amassed a significant amount of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons with the long-range ballistic missile capability to deploy them. Their primary strategic goals are to exert influence over South Korea to regain the peninsula and over the United States to prove themselves as a peer competitor. The repeated provocations pose a risk of escalation to war, including the potential use of WMD. DPRK represents an unstable regime whose “outlaw actions and reckless rhetoric continue despite United Nation’s censure and sanctions” (Mattis, 2018, 1). International law can inform and guide United States (US) policy consistent with the goals and objectives of the National Security Strategy (NSS) to temper this threat. International law establishes accepted boundaries to constrain actions taken by states to avoid both intended and unintended escalation. International law also provides a legitimate avenue for states to take action