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This guide provides an update to RUSI's 2019 'Guide to Conducting a National Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment'. Its goal is to assist jurisdictions conducting national proliferation financing risk assessments with guidance and best practices, while also addressing a range of proliferation financing threats.

The third in a series of site profiles examines academic and research and development buildings in the Hamhung Area of North Korea.

In June 2024, RUSI’s Centre for Finance and Security set up the UK Sanctions Implementation and Strategy Taskforce. This report presents findings from the second meeting of the Taskforce, held in October 2024.

As Russia turns to Pyongyang for reinforcements against Ukraine, we explore the events that have shaped North Korea as a security actor.

With the deployment of North Korean troops in Ukraine complicating the global geopolitical landscape, how does South Korea perceive the current situation, what challenges may constrain its response, and how will it ultimately react?

North Korea’s entry into the Russia–Ukraine war has globalised the conflict, intensifying the risks as Ukraine faces two highly militarised adversaries.

This paper offers a nuanced exploration of North Korea’s approach to deterrence by examining the trade-offs in arsenal structure amid fissile-material constraints.

In this episode, host Tom Keatinge, CFS Director, is joined by Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at CNAS, to discuss her co-authored article ‘Axis of Upheaval’.

This paper outlines proliferation finance activity tied to the casino and gaming sector, as well as the emergence of new avenues of exploitation that authorities should analyse as part of their national risk assessment process.

A webinar discussion on the finance and security threats within the casino and gaming sector.

This paper analyses North Korea’s procurement networks, particularly in view of North Korea’s programmatic successes and recent geopolitical shifts in Russia’s relationship with North Korea as a result of the war in Ukraine.

While the recently signed agreement between Russia and North Korea has sparked concern in the West, the reality is that cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang on sensitive technologies is not new – it is merely coming out into the open.

This report focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs in North Korea, Iran and Russia, identifying the challenges of implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls.

Russia has long ignored its obligation to implement international sanctions against North Korea – and now it may finally have dealt them a fatal blow.

North Korean tankers have begun loading oil from a Russian port in the country’s Far East an analysis of dozens of satellite images shows, partially lifting the veil on what Pyongyang has secured in return for the transfer of vast quantities of munitions and missiles.

This paper aims to examine cryptocurrency mixers’ distinct technical, legal and regulatory dimensions and the challenges they pose to the sanctions regime.

This workshop report summarises the discussion of 10 scholars, debating what impact AI has on geopolitics, whether there is a need for a new analytical framework to capture AI’s impact on international relations, and what we can learn from other technologies and their respective impact on geopolitical developments.

The second in a series of site profiles examines a new building in the Hamhung Area in North Korea.

The ballistic missiles that Russia fires into Ukraine not only bring death and destruction, but also fundamentally delegitimise international sanctions.

In return for providing ammunition to bolster Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, Pyongyang has sought something in return: assistance with developing its own space programme.