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Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula
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Description: 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.
Selected Contents:
Foreword (Scalapino)
1. Introduction (A Road-map), Y. Kihl and P. Hayes
I: Technology: Nuclear Reactor and Technology Transfer
2. Supply of Light Water Reactors to Pyongyang, S. Levy
3. Light Water Reactor Transfer to DPRK, P.Hayes
4. U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework, L. Spector
II: Economics: Sanctions, Incentives or Development?
5. Engaging the DPRK Economically, M. Valencia
6. Regional Environmental Cooperation in NE Asia, P. Hayes & L. Zarsky
7. Will Economic Sanctions Work Against North Korea? K.A. Elliott
8. Enduring Legacies, Environmental Restoration and Economic Revival, P. Hayes
9. Engaging North Korea on Energy Efficiency, P. Hayes & D. Von Hippel
III: Strategy: Calculus and Confidence Building Measures
10. Confrontation or Compromise? Lessons of the 1994 Nuclear Crisis, Y. Kihl
11. Beyond the Geneva Agreed Framework: A Road Map for Normalizing Relations with North Korea, S. Snyder
12. Pyongyang's Decision-Making Processes Regarding the Nuclear Issue, A.Mansourov
13. The Future of the U.S.-ROK Alliance, P.Hayes & S. Noerper
14. Confidence Building Measures: Bilateral versus Multilateral Approaches, J. Heppell
IV: External Challenges: Korea and the Major Powers
15. Nuclear Forces in Northeast Asia, G. Segal
16. The Status of US, Russian, and Chinese Forces in the Region, D. Lockwood
17. Great Power Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control, R. Cossa
18. Great Power Nuclear Forces Deployment and a Limited Nuclear Free Zone in Northeast Asia, J. Endicott
19. Regional Non-Nuclear Options: South Korean Perspective, S.W. Cheon
20. Engaging DPRK in a Verifiable Nuclear Weapons Free Zone: PRC Perspective, Dingli Shen
21. Conclusion, Y. Hayes and P. Kihl
Appendix A: Text of the 1994 Geneva Agreed Framework
Appendix B: Charter of the KEDO
Appendix C: Text of the Kuala Lumpur Statement
Select Bibliography
Contributing Authors
Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network
Review(s): Focuses clearly upon the consequences for Korean and regional peace and security wrought by the 'Agreed Framework' between the United States and North Korea which was negotiated in October 1994 to defuse the Korean nuclear crisis. The book is also path breaking in that security is conceived widely to include sustainable development, especially relating to the supply of energy. ... A very useful volume which can be thoroughly recommended. Australian Journal of International Affairs 06/29/98
    
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