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Save to My PortfolioNorth Korea's Nuclear Declaration

Jeffrey A. Bader and Richard C. Bush III, June 26, 2008, The Brookings Institution

North Korea's Nuclear DeclarationWith North Korea now releasing information on its nuclear program and the Bush Administration stating that it will lift sanctions and remove North Korea from its list of terrorist states, Jeffrey Bader and Richard Bush offer their comments on both actions and offer recommendations for future U.S. policy. Bader and Bush say that North Korea will first need to allow on-the-ground verification at its nuclear sites. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Sanctions, Proliferation

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Save to My PortfolioDisaster Standards Needed in Asia

Roberta Cohen, June 2008, Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary

In this Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary, Nonresident Senior Fellow Roberta Cohen calls for the development of performance standards for addressing natural disasters including the cyclone in Burma, earthquake in China, and famine in North Korea. Without such standards, states and the international community may be hampered in saving lives and reconstruction efforts. Read More

Natural Disasters, China, Myanmar, North Korea, Human Rights

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Save to My PortfolioThe Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism

Daniel L. Byman, May 2008, Saban Center Analysis Paper

The current United States approach to state sponsorship of terrorism is flawed, writes Daniel Byman. He suggests that instead of simply managing a list of state sponsors, Washington needs to recognize the complexity of sponsorship, monitor states using a broad definition of what constitutes state sponsorship, and use diplomatic pressure as well as political and economic penalties when needed. Read More

Terrorism, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia

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Save to My PortfolioHow to Feed North Korea

Roberta Cohen, May 05, 2008, Washington Post

How to Feed North KoreaHunger should know no politics, as President Ronald Reagan declared to justify food aid to Ethiopians starving under a brutal communist regime in the 1980s. Therefore South Korea's criticism of North Korea's human rights record need not prevent its providing food and fertilizer to hungry people in the North. Read More

North Korea, Human Rights, Global Food Crisis, South Korea, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioU.S.-China Relations: Key Strategic Issues in 2008

Friday, April 25, 2008
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Beijing, China

During the last year there have been a number of significant events with potential impace on U.S. China Relations. The Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy held a public discussion with four visiting American experts on key issues such as the six-party negotiations and nuclear proliferation. Read More

China, North Korea, U.S. Politics, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

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Save to My PortfolioThe Emerging Architecture for Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia

James E. Goodby, March 2008, Insights and Isues

James Goodby believe the outlook for the Korean Peninsula is far from bleak, but top-level leadership in all countries will be required if 2008 is to see significant progress toward a new system for peace and security in Northeast Asia. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, Northeast Asia, Proliferation

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Save to My PortfolioThe Sound of Music in Pyongyang

Cynthia P. Schneider, February 28, 2008, The Brookings Institution

The Sound of Music in PyongyangCynthia Schneider discusses the groundbreaking concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea on February 26. She argues that the visit had "all the characteristics of successful cultural outreach" and that though it was "just a concert" the symbolism "may impact future relationships in imperceptible ways." Read More

North Korea, Diplomacy

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Save to My PortfolioNorth Korea Now: Will the Clock Be Turned Back?

Georgy Toloraya, February 11, 2008, The Brookings Institution

The overall mood regarding possibilities for Korean denuclearization has changed dramatically for the worse since the beginning of 2008. CNAPS Visiting Fellow Georgy Toloraya writes that there is a danger that this pessimism could roll back the progress made thanks to engagement policies in the past year. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, Proliferation, Developing Countries

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Save to My PortfolioNorth Korea Out of a Corner?

Michael E. O'Hanlon, December 27, 2007, The Washington Times

Michael O'Hanlon writes that with the election of Lee Myung-bak to be South Korea's next president come February, a new phase is beginning in efforts to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program — and ideally, to begin a gradual reform and integration with the rest of the world. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control, South Korea, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioLooking Back and Looking Forward: North Korea, Northeast Asia and the ROK-U.S. Alliance

Hyeong Jung Park, December 2007, The Brookings Institution

Following a period of rocky relations caused by both ideological and structural factors, the U.S.-South Korea relationship began recovering in early 2007. In this CNAPS Visiting Fellow Working Paper, Hyeong Jung Park analyzes the recent history of the relationship and offers comprehensive suggestions for how the two sides can transform both their alliance and the strategic shape of Northeast Asia. Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, Northeast Asia, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioRussia’s East Asian Strategy: The Korean Challenge

Georgy Toloraya, November/December 2007, Russia in Global Affairs

Georgy Toloraya argues that the Korean Peninsula has changed radically since the end of 2006 and that Korea will play a greater and much different role in East Asia than it did in the past.  Read More

North Korea, Russia, South Korea, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioThe Legacy of Developmental States: Industrial Policy in Korea and Taiwan

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC

Haeran Lim explores the path of the post-developmental state by focusing on changes in industrial policy in Korea and Taiwan after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. She explains how the legacy of the developmental state led to a coordination failure, and identifies the need for a new coordination mechanism for industrial policy. Read More

Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Developing Countries, Asia

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Save to My PortfolioAn Approach to Managing North Korea

Sanghee Lee, November 20, 2007, The Brookings Institution

Lee Sanghee offers new approaches to dealing with North Korea.  Read More

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Policy, Northeast Asia

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Save to My PortfolioHuman Rights and the North Korea Refugee Crisis

Roberta Cohen, October 25, 2007, Fall Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law

The particular situation of North Korea, including its isolation from the rest of the world coupled with a near absence of human rights and a proclivity toward developing nuclear weapons pose challenges for policy makers, especially those addressing the North Korean refugee crisis. Read More

North Korea, China, Human Rights, Internal Displacement, Northeast Asia

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Save to My PortfolioRefugee Issues Relating to China

Roberta Cohen, October 19, 2007, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms and U.S. House of Representatives China Caucus Roundtable

China's behavior in the human rights and refugee spheres over the past decades has moved forward in some positive ways, but its actions are still quite unrestrained by international norms. Read More

China, North Korea, Human Rights, Asia, Northeast Asia

In Brief

Shut off from the rest of the world, North Korea has a weak economy and a repressive political system. Its test of a nuclear device in 2006 has re-energized diplomatic efforts to get North Korea to give up its weapons and nuclear programs in return for economic assistance and diplomatic relations with the United States and Japan.

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Michael E. O'Hanlon

Michael E. O'Hanlon

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair

Michael O’Hanlon specializes in U.S. national security policy. He is senior author of the Iraq Index. A former defense budget analyst who advised members of Congress on military spending, he specializes in Iraq, North Korea, homeland security, the use of military force and other defense issues. He is also director of Opportunity 08.
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Richard C. Bush III

Richard C. Bush III

Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
The Michael H. Armacost Chair

Richard Bush’s two-decade public service career spans Congress, the intelligence community and the U.S. State Department. He currently focuses on China-Taiwan relations, U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security. He is the author of, among other works,  A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America,  Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait , and At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942.

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