North Korea Spent $620 Million On Its Nuclear Weapons Program Last Year

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North Korea spent estimated $620 million on nuclear weapons in 2019 (Representational image)

India TV: North Korea spent estimated $620 million on nuclear weapons in 2019

North Korea was estimated to have spent $620 million on its nuclear weapons program last year, an international anti-nuclear weapons group said. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization, made the estimation in a report about the expenditures that nine countries, including the North, made on nuclear development

The figure was drawn based on a South Korean think tank's estimate that the North spent 35 percent of its gross national income (GNI) on its military in 2009, as well as data from Global Zero, another anti-nuclear weapon group, that the North was believed to have spent 6 percent of the military budget on nuclear development in 2011.

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WNU Editor: They would have spent more if they could.

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