Experts Discuss Prospects Of Peace On The Korean Peninsula

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

TOKYO (IDN) – Nearly 66 years have passed since the Armistice Agreement formally brought about “a complete cessation of hostilities” of the Korean War. One year later, Chinese Premier and Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai proposed a peace treaty. But U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, refused – leaving a final peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula hanging in the air. [2019-02-20 | P21] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN | SPANISH

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Perspectivas inciertas para el progreso en el desarme nuclear

Punto de vista de Sergio Duarte

El autor es Presidente de las Conferencias Pugwash sobre ciencia y asuntos mundiales y ex alto representante de la ONU para asuntos de desarme. Fue presidente de la Conferencia de revisión del tratado de no proliferación de 2005.

NUEVA YORK (IDN) – Aunque la humanidad ha conocido, desde los principios de la historia, la tristeza, la miseria y la devastación causada por la guerra, los conflictos militares más catastróficos de la historia son bastante recientes.

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Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

核軍縮の行き先はなお不透明（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）

【ニューヨークIDN＝セルジオ・ドゥアルテ】

人類は時代の夜明けから、戦争による悲哀や惨めさ、破壊の程を知っていたが、歴史上もっとも破滅的な軍事紛争は最近の現象だ。

１９１４年７月から１８年１１月まで続いた第一次世界大戦では、民間人や戦闘員を含めて約４０００万人の命が奪われた。１９３９年から４５年までの第二次世界大戦では７０００～８５００万人が亡くなった。こうした戦死者の推計には、捕虜としての死、病死、餓死など戦争関連の原因で亡くなったと考えられる人々も含まれている。

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Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

The writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and a former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. He was president of the 2005 Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference.

NEW YORK (IDN) – Although humankind has known since the dawn of ages the sorrow, misery and devastation caused by war, the most catastrophic military conflicts in history are quite recent.

World War I lasted from July 1914 to November 1918 and claimed some 40 million lives, among civilians and combatants. In all, between 70-85 million people perished during World War II that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The estimated war casualties include those who are believed to have died from war-related causes, including captivity, disease and famine. [2019-02-06 | P20] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Uncertain Prospects For Progress In Nuclear Disarmament

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

The writer is President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and a former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. He was president of the 2005 Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference.

NEW YORK (IDN) – Although humankind has known since the dawn of ages the sorrow, misery and devastation caused by war, the most catastrophic military conflicts in history are quite recent.

World War I lasted from July 1914 to November 1918 and claimed some 40 million lives, among civilians and combatants. In all, between 70-85 million people perished during World War II that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The estimated war casualties include those who are believed to have died from war-related causes, including captivity, disease and famine. [2019-02-06 | P20] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Trashing Treaties: It’s Not Just Trump

Viewpoint by Rick Wayman

The writer is Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. (Twitter @rickwayman)

SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – There is no shortage of critics who have pointed out President Donald Trump’s monumental strategic mistake in unilaterally withdrawing the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. It is indeed a blunder of the highest degree that not only makes the Trump administration look incompetent and foolish, but also puts the United States’ European allies and all of us at greater risk of nuclear catastrophe. [2019-02-04]

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UN Lauds India For Training Foreign Diplomats On Disarmament

｜国連｜インドによる軍縮専門家育成プログラムを評価

【ニューデリーIDN＝デビンダー・クマール】

インドは、各国の若手外交官を対象にした軍縮・国際安全保障プログラムを立ち上げた初の国連加盟国となった。あるインド外務省高官は、この取り組みについて、「核問題と軍縮に対するインドのコミットメントを示すもの」とコメントした。

このプログラムには、広範な地域からの若手外交官の参加を重視している点など、１９７８年の国連軍縮特別総会によって実施が決定された「国連軍縮フェローシップ」と類似点がある。

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Next Steps Out Of The INF Treaty Crisis

Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball

The writer is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. This article was posted on the Association’s website as an Issue Brief on February 1, 2019.

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – The Trump administration announced on February 1 that effective February 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and formally notify other parties to the treaty that it will withdraw in six months if Russia does not return to compliance by eliminating its ground-launched 9M729 missile, which the United States alleges can fly beyond the 500-kilometer range limit set by the treaty. [2019-02-02]

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Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace – Korean

핵 시대를 떠나고 평화로운 녹색 지구를 만들어야 할 시간

메데아 벤자민과 앨리스 슬레이터의 뷰포인트

메데아 벤자민은 평화를 위한 코드핑크(CODEPINK for Peace)를 공동 집필하였고 내부 이란 : 이슬람 공화국의 실제 역사와 정치(Inside Iran:The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic)을 포함한 여러권의 책의 저자이다. 앨리스 슬레이터는 전쟁을 넘은 세계(World Beyond War) 공동위원회 위원이며 핵 시대 평화 재단(Nuclear Age Peace Foundation)의 유엔 대표이다.  

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