Newsletter

Issue #5

June 2025

Read news of the Code, updates on our recent activities and latest information about ballistic missile tests and space launches.

CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

  • Uruguay designated as HCoC Chair for 2025-2026
  • HCoC Annual Regular Meeting
  • Looking Back at the Chilean Chairmanship

News about the Project

  • Side Event in the Margins of the ARM
  • Final Meeting of the Youth Group
  • Regional Seminar in the Philippines
  • HCoC Workshop in Nepal

News about Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • New MTCR Policy Published the the State Department
  • Japan’s Hypersonic Developments

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contact

Research Papers

The use of the existing WMD free zones as an exemple and a potential Framework for further initiatives banning ballistic missiles

Taken as a wide-ranging notion, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have not produced significant instruments in international security over time, UNSCR1540 being an exception. As such, there are no existing WMD free zones (WMDFZ) which can be used as examples and as potential frameworks for further initiatives banning ballistic missiles.

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Other publications

North Korean Short Range Systems: Military consequences of the development of the KN-23, KN-24 and KN-25

This study focuses on the new systems introduced, and assesses their potential impact as conventional weapons and as non-conventional weapons. Through an analysis of the possible capacities of these systems, this study examines their consequences on North Korean strategy. It concludes by exploring what this change of strategy may lead to, in military terms, and in political terms, on the Korean peninsula.

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