Fall 2004
"Managing the Atom Promotes North Korea Dialogue"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
A close examination of North Korea's key statistics reveals two intriguing insights into the current situation. First, the Kim Jong Il regime has emerged stronger from the devastating famine and natural disasters of the mid-1990s. At the time, these events convinced many North Korea watchers of the country's imminent collapse. North Korean resiliency, however, was not internally generated, but fostered externally.
AP Photo
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."
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 23, 2005
"North Korea's Grip on China"
Op-Ed, Globe and Mail
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"In the North Korean nuclear standoff, there is a major difference between having leverage and the ability to use it. China has the former, but not the latter. North Korea has both."
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
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February 5, 2004
China Takes 'Xiaokang' Approach to N. Korea
Op-Ed, The Straits Times
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
August 8, 2003
China Holds the Key to Unlocking the North Korean Crisis
Op-Ed, Globe and Mail
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
June 30, 2003
A Chinese Roadmap For Korea
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal Asia
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
