A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... Outskirts of the Regime… But Compensated with Nukes Andrey Kortunov: US — Japan — South Korea Military Cooperation Pushes More Rigid Bipolar Security Arrangement in Northeast Asia Three out of four world’s de facto nuclear armed states (non-NPT) can be found in the Asia-Pacific. Such countries choose not to participate in the NPT in exchange for their choice to go nuclear. Obviously, the most frequently cited example is the DPRK, who declared its decision to leave the Treaty in 2003. News headlines commonly register ...