Search: Japan,Nuclear weapons (3 materials)

Will the Six-Party Diplomatic Project Help Denuclearize the Korean Peninsula?

... in North Korea at the time) remained up in the air. The parties recognized North Korea’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and they agreed to discuss the possibility of supplying the country with a light-water reactor. The United States, Japan and South Korea also undertook to normalize their relations with North Korea, provided that the latter returns to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and agrees to operate under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It would seem that we have before us an example of a constructive diplomatic settlement, a compromise that takes the ...

25.09.2020

Depending on How You Slice It. Barack Obama’s visit to Japan

... nuclear realm. The Republicans question the success of the nuclear deal with Iran, claiming that it has been overblown, and presidential candidate Donald Trump, who thinks Obama’s idea of a nuclear-free world is a fantasy, has publicly called on Japan and South Korea to get nuclear weapons of their own to protect their security. In this regard, the biggest problem Obama faces in an obvious contradiction between his abstract condemnation of nuclear weapons (directed to the present and the future) and what amounts to a justification ...

01.06.2016

Russia’s Nuclear Strategy in Northeast Asia

... agreements reached in the 1960s to redeploy American TNWs to the Japanese archipelago (especially to the U.S. base in Okinawa) in a critical situation. A special 1960 agreement gave the United States the right to transport aeroplanes and ships containing nuclear weapons through Japan without prior consultations with the Japanese government. On March 17,2010, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan confirmed that American ships containing nuclear weapons could stop at Japanese ports under ‘special circumstances’....

04.03.2014

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