[KS] Berkeley CKS Event Sept 21, 4 p.m.: No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons

[Center for Korean Studies]

Institute of East Asian Studies and Center for Korean Studies at

University of California, Berkeley

 

Proudly present:

 




 

No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and International Security

Lecture: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |
September 21 | 4 p.m. |
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East
Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

 

Speaker: Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton
China Center, Brookings Institution

Moderator: T.J. Pempel, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley

Sponsors:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/> East Asian Studies, Institute of
(IEAS),  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Korean Studies, Center for (CKS)

 

How has North Korea (despite its economic dysfunction and isolation) stymied
or circumvented the efforts of the United States and others to prevent its
nuclear weapons development for decades? In a new book, No Exit: North
Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, Jonathan Pollack, a
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, chronicles the
political-military evolution of the Korean peninsula since 1945. Unlike most
extant literature that focuses on US policy debate, Pollack's study
concentrates on the history of the peninsula itself, in particular the role
of adversarial nationalism in building and sustaining the North Korean
system. Drawing on Cold War archives, extensive interviews in East Asia,
Russia, and Europe, reliance on North Korean media and several visits to the
DPRK, he chronicles North Korea's pursuit of nuclear technology and nuclear
weapons; how it has shaped Northeast Asian security and non-proliferation
policy; and influenced the strategic choices of the United States and the
regional powers. Pollack also provides unique insights into North Koreas
leadership, institutions and political history, without which any effort to
understand the nuclear question is not possible.

 

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