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.
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
Fall 1998
The Agreed Framework: A Path Towards Stability on the Korean Peninsula
Journal Article, Yisei
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
AP Photo
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.
AP Photo
December 2012
"The Leap in North Korea's Ballistic Missile Program: The Iran Factor"
Policy Brief
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
John S. Park, Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Project on Managing the Atom Associate, argues that cooperation between North Korea and Iran has been a critical—yet underexamined—enabler of North Korea's recent success. He concludes that the time has come for the United States to view the two previously independent missile programs as two sides of the same coin and recommends strategies for disrupting the procurement channels between Iran and North Korea.
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.
Summer 2012
Q&A: John S. Park
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
John Park, a senior research associate at the U.S. Institute of Peace and currently a visiting fellow with the Belfer Center's International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, recently sat down with for a one-on-one interview where he talked about his work with the Center and his contributions to the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.
AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File
April 16, 2012
John Park on North Korea After Kim Jong-il
In the News
By John S. Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
John Park, research fellow with the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, is interviewed by CNN, NPR, and other media about the regional and global impact of the death of North Korea's Kim Jong-il.
