BDA |
Banco Delta Asia |
BMD |
ballistic missile defense |
CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
CCP |
Combined Counter-Provocation Plan |
CSA |
comprehensive safeguards agreement |
CTBT |
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
DMZ |
Demilitarized Zone |
DPRK |
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
DRP |
Defense Reform Plan |
EDPC |
Extended Deterrence Policy Committee |
GPO |
US Government Printing Office |
GSOMIA |
General Security of Military Information Agreement |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
ICBM |
intercontinental ballistic missile |
IISS |
International Institute of Strategic Studies |
KAMD |
Korean Air and Missile Defense |
KCNA |
Korean Central News Agency |
KPA |
Korean People’s Army |
KPAF |
Korean People’s Air Force |
KPN |
Korean People’s Navy |
KWP |
Korean Workers’ Party |
LWR |
light-water (nuclear) reactor |
MCM |
Military Committee Meeting |
MRL |
multiple rocket launcher |
MTCR |
Missile Technology Control Regime |
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NLL |
Northern Limit Line |
NPR |
Nuclear Posture Review |
NPT |
Non-Proliferation Treaty (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) |
NSS |
US National Security Strategy |
OPCON |
operational control |
P5 |
five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council |
PLA |
People’s Liberation Army |
PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
QDR |
Quadrennial Defense Review |
ROK |
Republic of Korea |
SAR |
search and rescue |
SCM |
Security Consultative Meeting |
SLBM |
submarine-launched ballistic missile |
THAAD |
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense |
TISA |
trilateral intelligence-sharing arrangement |
UN |
United Nations |
WMD |
weapons of mass destruction |