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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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July 15, 2008
North Korea's Nuclear Moves
Event Report
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Dr. John Park discusses the decades-long conflict between Pyongyang and Washington over North Korea's nuclear program; he specifically discusses the response following June 26, when, in return for submitting its nuclear declaration, Pyongyang received confirmation that President Bush would notify Congress of his intention to remove North Korea from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List and lift Trading With the Enemy Act restrictions.
June, 2006
How China Can Bring Sunshine to Korea
Journal Article, Far Eastern Economic Review, issue 5, volume 169
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
April 5, 2006
Path for Seoul's Sunshine Policy
Op-Ed, The Korea Times
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
February 23, 2005
A Road Map -- The Only Route for Beijing
Op-Ed, The South China Morning Post
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
February 12, 2005
China's Herculean N. Korea Task
Op-Ed, The Korea Herald
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
May 14, 2004
North Korean Crisis: China Shows the Way to Pyongyang
Op-Ed, International Herald Tribune
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
China's
August 2012
"Assessing the Role of Security Assurances in Dealing with North Korea"
Book Chapter
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
This chapter examines the relationship between security assurances and North Korean nuclear decision-making by focusing on four key areas: key geopolitical shocks that had a major impact on the North Korean regime; main sources of security assurances for North Korea over its history; this volume's hypotheses on security assurances based on how North Korea reacted to geopolitical shocks; and conditions under which security assurances may be most effective in dealing with North Korea in the future.
Autumn 2005
"Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks"
Journal Article, Washington Quarterly, issue 4, volume 28
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Despite extensive diplomatic efforts to facilitate the six-party talks, domestic policy constraints, differing priorities, and conflicting historical analogies among each of the countries have brought vastly differing perspectives to the multilateral negotiating table.
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January 2013
"Deciphering North Korea's New Year's Address: The Real Road Ahead"
News
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Kim Jong-eun's New Year's Day address signaled a willingness to ease tensions with South Korea and focus on economic development, but how credible is this message? Project on Managing the Atom Associate and MIT Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow John Park analyzes the address in an HKS PolicyCast.
