Transforming Risks on the Korean Peninsula into Stable Peace in Northeast Asia

한반도의 위기를 동북아시아의 안정적인 평화의길로….

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「동북아시아에있어서의 평화의구축;한반도에 있어서의 위기관리와 그전환」

이라고하는 주제의 국제회의가 지역의 일촉즉발의 상황을 배경으로

미국,중국,한국,일본으로 부터 동북 아시아지역의 평화와 안전보장에 관한

전문가,정책 입안자,시민사회의 참가자가 모여개최되었다.

북한이「세계의 어느곳 에라도 도달」가능한 대륙간 탄도미사일의 실험에

성공하였다고주장하기이전에 1995년의 노벨평화상 수상단체

「과학과세계문제에관한 파그웟슈회의」가 2017년5월4일의 성명에서

「북한과의대립의격화는중대한 위험성을 높이게하고있다.」라고

불안감을 표시하였다.

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Action Needed to Ratify the 1996 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Viewpoint by Dr Lassina Zerbo

The author is Executive Secretary of CTBTO, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. The following is a slightly abridged and modified text of his address on 26 February to the High-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament, multilateral disarmament negotiating forum where the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in Geneva was negotiated in the 1990s. (Read the original text here.) Dr. Zerbo stressed that “we must take great care to preserve the integrity of the institutions and instruments we have and to build trust in them and around them. This means maintain and securing the NPT and its entire chain of responsibilities – of which the CTBT entry into force is an integral part”. – The Editor

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UN, EU, Experts Hail Outcome of Inter-Korean Talks, Call For Availing of Peace Opportunities

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN (IDN) – The United Nations and the European Union as well as independent arms control experts have welcomed the results of latest talks between South and North Korea, and called for seizing the opportunities opening up for peace in the region and for reducing international tensions.

The significance of emerging prospects is underlined by the fact that though the Korean War ended in 1953, in the absence of a peace treaty the two Koreas are technically still at war. As The New York Times notes, in the United States where coverage of the armed conflict was censored and its memory decades later is often overshadowed by World War II and the Vietnam War, the Korean War has been called “the Forgotten War”.

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Mixed Reactions To Inter-Korean Accord

By Yonhap News Agency

This report was carried by the South Korean news agency on March 6 (local time: 23.38) and is being reproduced to give a glimpse into how the current development on the Korean peninsula is viewed in the Republic of Korea. – The Editor

SEOUL (IDN-INPS) – South Korean political parties on March 6 demonstrated mixed reactions to the results of the high-stakes visit to North Korea by President Moon Jae-in’s special envoys, which included an agreement to hold a cross-border summit next month.

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Nuclear Deterrence Policy Gathering Steam in India

By Sudha Ramachandran

BANGALORE (IDN) – “Though India is a reluctant nuclear power, nuclear deterrence will continue to play a crucial role in India’s national security strategy over the next few decades,” says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, Distinguished Fellow at India’s Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).

In his recent book ‘Sharpening the Arsenal: India’s Evolving Nuclear Deterrence Policy’, he explains the reason: “Only when India’s adversaries are convinced that India has both the necessary political and military will and the hardware to respond to a nuclear strike with punitive retaliation that will inflict unacceptable loss of human life and unprecedented material damage, will they be deterred.” [P 40] ARABIC | BAHASA | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON  PDF | MALAY | THAI

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Nuclear Deterrence Policy Gathering Steam in India

By Sudha Ramachandran

BANGALORE (IDN) – “Though India is a reluctant nuclear power, nuclear deterrence will continue to play a crucial role in India’s national security strategy over the next few decades,” says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, Distinguished Fellow at India’s Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).

In his recent book ‘Sharpening the Arsenal: India’s Evolving Nuclear Deterrence Policy’, he explains the reason: “Only when India’s adversaries are convinced that India has both the necessary political and military will and the hardware to respond to a nuclear strike with punitive retaliation that will inflict unacceptable loss of human life and unprecedented material damage, will they be deterred.” [P 40] ARABIC｜BAHASA | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSON  PDF | MALAY | THAI

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Kazakhstan Signs Ban Treaty After Security Council Debut

By J Nastranis

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Kazakhstan, known as an active and staunch supporter of a world free of nuclear weapons, became 57th country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on March 2.

The Treaty, which opened for signature on September 20, 2017, will remain open indefinitely. It will enter into force 90 days after 50 nations have ratified or acceded to it. Until now, five states have ratified the Treaty: Guyana, Holy See and Thailand on September 20, 2017 immediately after signing. They were followed by Mexico on January 16 and Cuba on January 30.

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Kick Off To A Nuclear Race Threatening Doomsday

「世界の終わりの日」までの核軍拡競争が始まる（セルジオ・ドゥアルテ元国連軍縮問題担当上級代表、パグウォッシュ会議議長）

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まるで偶然であるかのように、国際社会は、「世界終末時計」の針が真夜中に近づけられたという決定と、米国政府による２０１８年核態勢見直し（NPR）のニュースをほぼ同時に知ることになった。

これらは、非常に異なった世界観をベースにしているが、いずれも安全保障上の懸念に対応したものだ。前者は、核兵器による目前の危険とその廃絶の必要性を印象的な形で突きつけるものであるのに対して、後者は、国際的な緊張に対応する能力を持つ核兵器の役割と、既存の核戦力をより柔軟かつ多様に運用することで、そうした危機を回避する役割について強調したものだ。

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