Proliferation dangers in Northeast Asia

April, 2005 As delegates to the Non-Proliferation Treaty prepared for their meeting at the United Nations, leading experts from Korea and around the world gathered at a seminar in Seoul to share information, and solutions, on the increasingly dangerous situation in Northeast Asia. The seminar was sponsored by Greenpeace International, the Korean Federation for Environmental Movements, and the Peace Forum for North East Asia in the 21st century. Here are some of the conference documents:

Fallout victims of the Pacific: Tony de Brum

23 May 2005

Tony de Brum grew up in the Marshall Islands under the shadow of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. This is a speech he presented to the Non Proliferation Treaty review conference in 2005 about the plight of radiation victims in the Marshalls and other island nations. The Rainbow Warrior evacuated residents of the contaminated island of Rongelap in the Marshalls in 1985 to a new home, shortly before the ship was sunk by agents of the French government for her opposition to nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.

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The actual and potential development of nuclear weapons technology in the area of North-East Asia (Korean Peninsular and Japan)

29 April 2005

This Review examines the North-East Asia civil nuclear infrastructure of nuclear power reactors, fuel fabrication and reprocessing plants and, more generally, how the nuclear know-how might be deployed to procure sufficiently high quality materials to build up a nuclear weapons arsenal.

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Japan's re-emergence as a military power and peace in Northeast Asia

29 April 2005

Japan's re-emergence as a military power and peace in Northeast Asia - text of a speech given by Kang Chang Il - lawmaker from Uri Party and Member of the 21st century Northeast Asian Peace Forum - at the Nuclear Proliferation Seminar at the National Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 28 April 2005

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Nuclear-free zones on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia

29 April 2005

Nuclear-free zones on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia - the clash between becoming a nuclear-have and non-proliferation. Text of a speech given by Jung Wook Sik from Civil Network for a Peaceful Korea, at the Nuclear Proliferation Seminar, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 28, 2005

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The US Nuclear Posture in Korea

29 April 2005

This briefing gives an overview of how the US nuclear posture toward North Korea has changed since the Cold War and describes the forces and operations that are used today to maintain a nuclear deterrence toward North Korea. Presented at the Seminar on Nuclear Proliferation Challenges: The Korean Peninsula and Japan at the National Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 28, 2005

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Proliferation Report: sensitive nuclear technology and plutonium technologies in the Republic of Korea and Japan, international collaboration and the need for a comprehensive fissile material treaty

26 April 2005

Paper presented to the International Conference on Proliferation Challenges in the Noth-East Asia: the Korean Peninsula and Japan, National Assembly, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 28th, 2005

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