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, by PSSP
Yeonpyeong-do:TheTragic Result of Aggressive Military Exercises and Escalating Antagonism North and South
The peace movement must gather its strength to oppose all further actions that threaten the peaceful existence of the Korean people. 24 November 2010 Policy Committee People’s (…)
, by HAYES Peter
Introduction
This essay examines the role that nuclear weapons have played in Northeast Asia in creating a system of inter-state relations based in part on nuclear threat and the impact of North Korea on that system. The US-led alliances that rest on extended nuclear deterrence have been (…)
, by LEE Yumi
On April 4, in the midst of heated debate about whether it was in fact a satellite or missile, North Korea launched the “Eunha-2” rocket in an attempt to put the “Gwangmyeongseong-2” satellite into orbit. While it appears that the satellite failed to make it into outer space North Korea’s (…)
It seems that nearly everyone publicly supports the reunification of Korea—the governments of the United States, North Korea, and South Korea, as well as the great majority of people in both North and South Korea. This should make us all nervous because it means that different people mean (…)
, by SHIM Jae Hoon
North Korea reports on key facilities and plutonium output but keeps mum on uranium program.
North Korean ambassador Choe Jin Su is not exactly a star on Beijing’s diplomatic cocktail circuits, but on June 26, a day after the Korean War anniversary which his country still insists was started (…)
, by GITTINGS John
North Korea has agreed to close a weapons facility, to the relief of the Americans. But China and Japan are wary about the future.
In spite of progress over the Korean nuclear problem, the big question remains: are we going to have to live with North Korea as the ninth member of the nuclear (…)
, by LORIMER Doug
On February 26, a US consular official in Hong Kong announced that Washington was ready to “begin taking steps” to lift financial sanctions on North Korea by resolving a dispute over Macau’s Banco Delta Asia. In September 2005, the US Treasury designated BDA a primary money-laundering concern, (…)
, by McCORMACK Gavan
On 13 February 2007, a historic deal was struck in Beijing commencing the process of the denuclearization of Korea, comprehensive regional reconciliation, ending the Korean War, and normalizing relations between North Korea and its two historic enemies, Japan and the United States. The agreement (…)
, by LORIMER Doug
On October 14, five days after North Korea announced that it had carried out its first nuclear weapons test, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution imposing a ban on trade with North Korea in “luxury” goods, some conventional armaments, and materials “related” to its nuclear (…)
, by PSSP
Opposing war and violence on the Korean Peninsula and around the world, in the name of all people who wish for peace and democracy, we assert the following:
1. We condemn the hypocrisy of the United Nations’ sanctions against North Korea and the real threat posed by the United States’ nuclear (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
North Korea has punched a big hole through the already frayed global nuclear order. The effects of its nuclear test will ricochet the world over, causing a change in the Asian balance of power, and an impact on Iran and other countries which aspire to acquire nuclear weapons/capability. The (…)
, by DIMAS Eduardo
As has been widely reported by all the media, on Saturday, Oct. 14, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved Resolution No. 1718, which sets up sanctions against the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea for carrying out a nuclear test on Oct. 9.
The resolution, negotiated by (…)
, by KIM Iggy
On October 9, North Korea announced it had successfully carried out its first nuclear-weapons test, six days after announcing it intended to conduct such a test. The test was the culmination of nearly two years of hostility and provocation by the United States.
The February 13, 2005 New York (…)
, by NAQVI M B
On eighth October, North Korea test exploded a nuclear device. From now on North Korea is to be treated as a nuclear capable power. It is a portentous development in Asian politics. Asia was already experiencing barely hidden inter-se hostile diplomacy by great powers, led by the US and (…)
Despite Chinese intermediation and South Korean flexibility and generosity in the past three years, prospects for security settlement on the Korean peninsula and normalization of relations between Pyongyang and Washington and Tokyo seem to be farther than ever. The six-party talks are stalled, (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
North Korea has shocked and challenged the world by punching a big hole through the global nuclear order. The effects of its test will ricochet for a long time, changing the Asian balance of power and impacting Iran.
The explosion underscores some plain unvarnished wisdom: the best way to (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
CPI (ML) expresses grave concern about the nuclear tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which have serious implications for nuclear disarmament. However, it must be emphasised that the existing nuclear order of the NPT – a highly unequal order ruled by the US and based on outright (…)
, by All Together
On October 9, North Korea announced that it had just conducted a nuclear test. The test came just six days after an official statement by the Foreign Ministry that NK would proceed with such a test. Experts had warned unequivocally that Pyongyang wasn’t simply bluffing this time. But the Bush (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
NEW DELHI, Oct 9 (IPS) - North Korea has shocked the world by detonating a nuclear explosion and making good the threat it had held out six days earlier. Pyongyang’s action is one more blow to the existing global non-proliferation order and will trigger greater instability in Northeast Asia and (…)
, by SELDEN Mark
I The Korea Problem
The essence of the “Korea Problem” lies not in the threat of North Korean development of atomic weapons, nor in the existence of a rogue regime in North Korea, as the international press and some American presidents would have it. The central problem is the division of the (…)
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