Countering DPRK and Irans WMD, UAS, and Missile Proliferation
This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations working to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technologies from North Korea and Iran by enhancing partner nations' capabilities in sanctions enforcement and financial monitoring.
Description
While the United States continues to seek negotiations with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it maintains the policy that international pressure and sanctions must remain in force until the DPRK fully denuclearizes. ISN/CTR supports the pressure campaign against the DPRK by training partners to implement United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) constraining the DPRKs weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, to detect and halt DPRK-linked sanctions evasion activities, and to impede the DPRKs material and financial activities that fund the development of WMD and related delivery systems. ISN/CTR achieves this mission through capacity-building programs, open-source research, and other specialized efforts, all of which help countries detect and shut down financial and material flows to the DPRK.