The second nuclear test by North Korea in May 2009 has alerted the world community and has created a situation that negatively affects peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The underground explosion at Pyongyang's first test was over 2006, with an earthquake measuring 4.52 degrees on the Richter scale, caused by North Korea was branded as a response to military threat and economic sanctions imposed by USA, Japan and Russia and South Korea. The objective fact is that it reinforces the status-nuclear North Korea, which is a key weapon to perpetuate the current political regime and military dominance in the region.

Currently it is estimated that the world is home to between 25,000 and 30,000 nuclear weapons, 97% of them in American and Russian hands and the rest divided among China, France and the United Kingdom, countries that make up the Security Council of the United Nations and Pakistan, India and North Korea that have successfully made nuclear weapons in contravention of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

The North Korean situation seems out of control of international organizations who do not know the nuclear inventory or have alternative courses to promote disarmament in the short term. This brings the problem of being located in a Communist government's decision to possible nuclear war and the indiscriminate extermination of people and damage to environmental assets.