Peace and Security in Northeast Asia

by Kihl, Young Whan; Hayes, Peter; Scalapino, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9781563247903
• ISBN10: 1563247909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc

Summary

Korean security was the focus of world-wide attention and concern in 1993-95 with North Korea's "suspected" nuclear weapons program. Dubbed by some as the first post-Cold War nuclear crisis, it was triggered by the United Nations Security Council's move to impose economic sanctions on North Korea. Although the immediate crisis was defused diplomatically, the nuclear time bomb continues to tick on the Korean peninsula, and the issues remain under close international surveillance. This important book examines North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer, economic sanctions and incentives, strategic calculus and confidence-building measures, the major powers, and environmental challenges that a nuclear-free zone in Korea will present.

Table of Contents

Foreword (Scalapino)

Introduction (A Road-map)

Technology: Nuclear Reactor and Technology Transfer

Supply of Light Water Reactors to Pyongyang

Light Water Reactor Transfer to DPRK

U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework

Economics: Sanctions, Incentives or Development?

Engaging the DPRK Economically

Regional Environmental Cooperation in NE Asia

Will Economic Sanctions Work Against North Korea?

Enduring Legacies, Environmental Restoration and Economic Revival

Engaging North Korea on Energy Efficiency

Strategy: Calculus and Confidence Building Measures

Confrontation or Compromise? Lessons of the 1994 Nuclear Crisis

Beyond the Geneva Agreed Framework: A Road Map for Normalizing Relations with North Korea

Pyongyang's Decision-Making Processes Regarding the Nuclear Issue

The Future of the U.S.-ROK Alliance

Confidence Building Measures: Bilateral versus Multilateral Approaches

External Challenges: Korea and the Major Powers

Nuclear Forces in Northeast Asia

The Status of US, Russian, and Chinese Forces in the Region

Great Power Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control

Great Power Nuclear Forces Deployment and a Limited Nuclear Free Zone in Northeast Asia

Regional Non-Nuclear Options: South Korean Perspective

Engaging DPRK in a Verifiable Nuclear Weapons Free Zone: PRC Perspective

Conclusion

Text of the 1994 Geneva Agreed Framework

Charter of the KEDO

Text of the Kuala Lumpur Statement

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Authors Northeast Asia

Peace and Security Network

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