18
February 2010
Past Event
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and East Asia

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and East Asia

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
February 18, 2010
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18
February 2010
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Dr. Richard Weitz

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis

Mark Brzezinski

International Law Partner, McGuireWoods LLP, and Board Member, Partnership for a Secure America

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Victor Cha
Patrick Cronin

Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security

Christopher Ford

Senior Director for WMD and Counterproliferation, National Security Council

Jeffrey Lewis

Director, Nuclear Strategy Initiative at the New America Foundation

This panel on East Asian and nuclear security discussed the immediate challenge of persuading North Korea to return to the Six-Party talks and the longer-term prospects of securing its de-nuclearization and averting further nuclear proliferation in East Asia, as well as the effects of Korean developments on the future of the global non-proliferation regime, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference later this year. 

A related set of questions pertains to the nuclear policies of the People's Republic of China (PRC).  What role can Beijing play in re-energizing the Six-Party Talks? How well does the PRC now adhere to global nuclear nonproliferation norms and what can it do better? As the United States and Russia commit to reducing their nuclear arsenals further, can China be persuaded to join these strategic offensive nuclear reductions talks or adopt other policies in their support? Finally, at a time when the U.S. administration has committed to ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, what are the prospects for its ratification by North Korea or China?

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis Dr. Richard Weitz and Mark Brzezinski, Board Member of the Partnership for a Secure America, co-chaired a panel of distinguished experts in discussing these questions.

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