Seoul: North Korea’s handling of nuclear materials remains the worst in the world, a non-profit group said on Thursday.
According to the report by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a Washington-based group working to curb the threat of nuclear terrorism and accidents, North Korea ranked the last among the 22 countries reviewed in terms of the security of its nuclear materials.
North Korea has ranked last on five consecutive reports since the group created the index in 2012.
The NTI conducts the index on countries with 1 kg or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials to assess their level of security based on several indices. (IANS)