NPT Compliance Issues

RS22125 -- NPT Compliance Issues

Updated January 25, 2006

Summary

President Bush remarked in 2005 that "[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty] NPT Parties must take strong action to confront the threat of noncompliance with the NPT...We cannot allow rogue states that violate their commitments...to undermine the NPT's fundamental role in strengthening international security." North Korea and Iran pose two clear compliance challenges to the treaty. However, some NPT parties are adamant that the United States and other nuclear weapon states are not complying with their own obligations to pursue nuclear disarmament. This report, which will be updated as needed, discusses different views and issues of NPT compliance.