Non-proliferation and export control regimes in the APR: Problems and outlook

In: Far Eastern affairs: a Russian journal on China, Japan and Asia-Pacific Region ; a quarterly publication of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, S. 3-19

Abstract

The author points out that nuclear safety and non-proliferation in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) have obvious regional characteristics. This is borne out by the lessons of the March 1993 crisis connected with North Korea's threat to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), when the non-proliferation regime was challenged outright, for the first time in modern history. One of the immediate consequences of this nuclear crisis has been the increasingly regional trend towards nuclear non-proliferation regime maintenance. The author explores nun-proliferation and export control regimes in the APR. (DÜI-Sen)