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International Security

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December 8, 2009

"America and China Diverge on a Shared Korean Goal"

Op-Ed, Financial Times

By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom and Drew Thompson

"...if China continues to prioritise friendly commercial relations with North Korea and Iran, it will threaten its own long-term security. A chronically proliferating North Korea would provoke Japan to reassess the need for a nuclear deterrent, while a nuclear-armed Iran could destabilise the Gulf and global energy markets. Crafting an approach that includes a sustained US-China engagement to clarify each side's intent, provides for China's energy security and maintains a focus on the threat of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran is more likely to achieve our shared non-proliferation goals."

 

Managing the Atom

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December 8, 2009

"America and China Diverge on a Shared Korean Goal"

Op-Ed, Financial Times

By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom and Drew Thompson

"...if China continues to prioritise friendly commercial relations with North Korea and Iran, it will threaten its own long-term security. A chronically proliferating North Korea would provoke Japan to reassess the need for a nuclear deterrent, while a nuclear-armed Iran could destabilise the Gulf and global energy markets. Crafting an approach that includes a sustained US-China engagement to clarify each side's intent, provides for China's energy security and maintains a focus on the threat of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran is more likely to achieve our shared non-proliferation goals."

 

Science, Technology, and Public Policy

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December 8, 2009

"America and China Diverge on a Shared Korean Goal"

Op-Ed, Financial Times

By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom and Drew Thompson

"...if China continues to prioritise friendly commercial relations with North Korea and Iran, it will threaten its own long-term security. A chronically proliferating North Korea would provoke Japan to reassess the need for a nuclear deterrent, while a nuclear-armed Iran could destabilise the Gulf and global energy markets. Crafting an approach that includes a sustained US-China engagement to clarify each side's intent, provides for China's energy security and maintains a focus on the threat of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran is more likely to achieve our shared non-proliferation goals."

 

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