Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
| BDA | Banco Delta Asia |
| BTWC | Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention |
| CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
| CMEA | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) |
| CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
| DNI | Director of National Intelligence (U.S.) |
| DPJ | Democratic Party of Japan |
| DPMO | Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office |
| DPRK | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EIU | Economist Intelligence Unit |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization (U.N.) |
| FDR | Flight Data Recorder |
| FROG | Free-Rocket-Over-Ground |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
| HEU | Highly Enriched Uranium |
| HFO | Heavy Fuel Oil |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
| IOC | International Olympic Committee |
| JFA | Joint Field Activity |
| JRA | Japanese Red Army |
| JSP | Japan Socialist Party |
| KAL | Korean Air Lines |
| KCIA | Korean Central Intelligence Agency (South) |
| KCNA | Korean Central News Agency (North) |
| KDI | Korea Development Institute (South) |
| KEDO | Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization |
| KINU | Korea Institute for National Unification (South) |
| KOTRA | Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (South) |
| KPA | Korean People’s Army (North) |
| KWP | Korean Workers’ Party (North) |
| LDP | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| LWR | Light-Water Reactor |
| MAC | Military Armistice Commission |
| MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
| NAM | Non-Aligned Movement |
| NBA | National Basketball Association |
| NCAFP | National Committee on American Foreign Policy |
| NDC | National Defense Commission (North Korea) |
| NEACD | Northeast Asian Cooperation Dialogue |
| NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NSA | National Security Agency (North Korea) |
| NSC | National Security Council (U.S.) |
| NWFZ | Nuclear Weapons–Free Zone |
| ODA | Official Development Assistance |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| POW/MIA | Prisoners of War/Missing in Action |
| PUST | Pyongyang University of Science and Technology |
| PRC | People’s Republic of China |
| PSI | Proliferation Security Initiative |
| ROK | Republic of Korea (South Korea) |
| SAM | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SDF | Self-Defense Forces (Japan) |
| SEZ | Special Economic Zone |
| STU | Secure Telephone Unit |
| TD-I | Taep’odong-I |
| TD-II | Taep’odong-II |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNSCR | United Nations Security Council Resolution |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction |