An array of challenges threaten the peace and security of Northeast Asia, not least how to contain a nuclear North Korea and ensure the safety of the region’s nuclear power structure. Addressing multiple dimensions of these crucial issues, the authors of <em>Northeast Asia's Nuclear Challenges</em> highlight the cooperative approaches needed not only among the primary actors—China, the two Koreas, Russia, and the United States—but throughout the international community.<br><br>Distributed for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University.

An array of challenges threaten the peace and security of Northeast Asia, not least how to contain a nuclear North Korea and ensure the safety of the region’s nuclear power structure. Addressing multiple dimensions of these crucial issues, this highlights the cooperative approaches needed not only among the primary actors - China, the two Koreas, Russia, and the US - but throughout the international community.

Introduction A Myriad of Challenges-Carving a Peaceful, Stable, and Secure Northeast Asia/ Su Hoon Lee 1. An Assessment of the Obama Doctrine/ Leon Sigal 2. Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction: A Russian Perspective/ Alexander G. Savelyev 3. Reassessing the G-8 Global Partnership: A South Korean Perspective/ Sang-Hyun Lee 4. Addressing the North Korean Nuclear Threat: A Strategic-Pragmatic-Comprehensive Perspective and Its Policy Alternatives/ Kun Young Park 5. Can the North Korean Nuclear Crisis Be Resolved?/ Sigfried S. Hecker 6. Nuclear Power in China, Japan, and Korea: A Current and Future Assessment/ Jian Cai 7. Overcoming the Cold War Mindset: A Case for Promoting a Nuclear-Weapons Convention and a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone/ Takao Takahara