By tracking twelve site visits by North Korean leadership, East Asia Program Director Jeffrey Lewis and his team gleaned new insight into the DPRK missile program. 

Their report, released January 17, includes details about each of the six sites visited by Kim Jong Un (and, before him, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung), and offers observations about why the DPRK chose to obscure the sites' locations and identities. The insights reinforce the assessment that the DPRK is focused on domestically producing these weapon systems.

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At the recent IAEA Conference on the Security of Radioactive Material, CNS sponsored an expert panel on "Innovative Approaches to Locating Orphaned Radioactive Sources" as a way to inform relevant national regulatory bodies and other stakeholders about an innovative methodology CNS developed to help governments locate and recover orphaned radioactive sources. 

So far, CNS has worked with government partners in Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan to implement this methodology, which utilizes social media, network analysis, and other new technologies. In Vienna, representatives from these states joined CNS Director Bill Potter and Senior Program Manager Margarita Kalinina-Pohl to discuss the project's implementation and its results, and to encourage other states- -particularly from developing countries-- to consider employing the methodology in their own nuclear security efforts.

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