Does the Non-Proliferation Regime Have Any Future?

... military-strategic situation in the region looks more than redoubtable, while getting ever more complicated. Nevertheless, it should by no means be considered hopeless. With political will, persistence and diplomatic flexibility, the negative processes in Northeast Asia can still be reversed. Andrey Gubin: The East Expands into NATO: Japan’s and South Korea’s New Approaches to Security Official recognition of the DPRK’s nuclear status by the great powers, similar to that of India and Pakistan, would be a major blow to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, no less severe than the appearance of a nuclear Iran on the map of Eurasia. Recognizing North Korea’s ...