Does the Non-Proliferation Regime Have Any Future?
... geopolitical circumstances, both Moscow and Beijing may at some point look more favorably at the prospect of Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons and advanced means of their delivery. Still, Russia and China are not unreasonably dissatisfied with the inconsistency ... ... minimum, Russia could block all new UN Security Council’s sanctions that the West is likely to propose in response to the DPRK’s projected nuclear or missile tests. At most, Moscow, according to Western experts, could actively promote Pyongyang’s ...