Substance Eludes Kim-Trump Historic Summit

By Sergio Duarte

The writer is Ambassador, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and President of Pugwash.

NEW YORK (IDN) – The off-again, on-again meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un which finally took place in Singapore on June 12 was undoubtedly an historic occasion. However, a sober analysis of its outcome can hardly conclude that it was either a success or a failure. Even so, the mere fact that after several weeks of mutual provocations and derogatory exchanges the two leaders agreed to meet in a cordial, almost congenial atmosphere is in itself an auspicious achievement.

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The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit Relieves Tensions, Nuclear Dangers Remain

By David Krieger

The writer is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the author and editor of many books on peace and nuclear weapons abolition, including ‘Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action.’ This article first appeared on NAPF. – The Editor.

SANTA BARBARA (IDN) – The Singapore Summit was a dramatic turn-around from the adolescent name calling that Trump and Kim had engaged in only months before. Trump had labelled Kim as “Little Rocket Man,” and Kim had labelled Trump as “Dotard.”

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ICAN forventer at traktaten om forbud mot atomvåpen trer i kraft i 2019

Av Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY (IDN) – Mens verden er vitne til en økning i kjernefysisk sabelrasling i 2018, støtter Den internasjonale kampanjen for å avskaffe atomvåpen (ICAN) en global allmenn bevegelse for å legge press på regjeringer til å signere og ratifisere Traktaten om forbud mot atomvåpen. ICANs traktatkoordinator Tim Wright (TW), snakket med IDNs Neena Bhandari (NB) om nedrustning, økt bevissthet om risiko og konsekvenser av atomvåpen, og hvorfor verden trenger en traktat om forbud mot atomvåpen mer enn noen gang før.

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Paving the Way to Denuclearization and Peace with North Korea

By Daryl G. Kimball

The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. Following is the text of an Issue Brief analyzing the prospects beyond the U.S.-North Korean Summit on June 12 in Singapore.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) – The South Korean-brokered diplomatic opening between leaders from the United States and the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in January 2018 is a welcome shift away from the missile and nuclear tests and “fire and fury” threats of 2017 that brought the region to the brink of a catastrophic war.

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ICAN Expects Nuclear Ban Treaty to Enter into Force in 2019 – Swedish

ICAN förväntar att kärnvapenstoppsavtal träder i kraft 2019

Av Neena Bhandari

SYDNEY (IDN) – Under tiden som världen bevittnar ett ökat nukleärt vapenskramlande under 2018, stöder International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (dvs. ICAN eller den internationella kampanjen för att avskaffa kärnvapen) den globala offentlighetsrörelsen, för att utöva påtryckning på regeringar att underteckna och ratificera fördraget om förbud mot kärnvapen (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons). Fördragsamordnare Tim Wright (TW) på ICAN pratade med Neena Bhandari (NB) på IDN om nedrustning, ökning av medvetenheten om riskerna med och konsekvenserna av kärnvapen och varför världen nu behöver en kärnvapenstopp mer än någonsin.

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The Alphabet Soup NPT, CTBT, NBT

By Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

The writer is Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash), an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell founded it in 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955. Rotblat and the Pugwash Conference jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts on nuclear disarmament. – The Editor.

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Hinter der Aufschiebung der wegweisenden UN-Konferenz ist der lange Arm der Atomwaffenstaaten zu sehen

Von Alyn Ware

Der Autor ist Ko-Vorsitzender der Abrüstungskommission des World Future Council.

NEW YORK (IDN) – Am 14. Mai 2018 sollte bei den Vereinten Nationen eine dreitägige hochrangige Konferenz für nukleare Abrüstung eröffnet werden, in deren Rahmen “über wirksame Maßnahmen zur nuklearen Abrüstung zur vollständigen Beseitigung von Atomwaffen diskutiert werden soll, insbesondere über ein umfassendes Übereinkommen über Atomwaffen”.

Die Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen beschloss vor fünf Jahren, eine solche Konferenz im Jahr 2018 abzuhalten, nach einer Reihe von jährlichen eintägigen hochrangigen Treffen bei den Vereinten Nationen.

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CTBTO Symposium Underlines Importance of Youth and Women

By Reinhardt Jacobsen

VIENNA (IDN) – “Now more than ever, this type of diplomacy has a particular importance,” said Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba, in a high-level session of the 2nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium at the Vienna International Centre.

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UN Chief’s Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters

By Jayantha Dhanapala

The UN Secretary-General’s new Disarmament Agenda entitled, Securing Our Common Future, “seems unlikely to secure our common future with the present actors,” writes Jayantha Dhanapala, a retired Ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament. “We will either have to wait for a change of actors or search among the debris of failed negotiations for a fresh start. But that depends on the unpredictable Trump and Kim Jong Un,” he adds. [P 07] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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UN Chief’s Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters

By Jayantha Dhanapala

The UN Secretary-General’s new Disarmament Agenda entitled, Securing Our Common Future, “seems unlikely to secure our common future with the present actors,” writes Jayantha Dhanapala, a retired Ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament. “We will either have to wait for a change of actors or search among the debris of failed negotiations for a fresh start. But that depends on the unpredictable Trump and Kim Jong Un,” he adds. [P 07] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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