The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

575 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Some reflections in the light of North Korea's refusal to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities MAURICE ANDEM Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Introduction After the end of the Cold War and final collapse of the former Soviet Union in December 1991, one might have thought that the international community would, for the first time in history, witness also a decade of positive disarma- ment and denuclearization. But, unfortunately, we are now witnessing more proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. According to a report in the