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Siegfried S. Hecker, Professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, and William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense from 1994 through 1997, write, “in its remaining months, the Bush administration should focus on limiting North Korea’s nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production. If it can also get answers on the Syrian operation and resolve the question of uranium enrichment, it will put the next administration in a stronger position to finally end the nuclear threat from North Korea.”

NAPSNet Daily Report 20 May, 2008

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NAPSNet Daily Report 19 May, 2008

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NAPSNet Daily Report 16 May, 2008

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Update on the Six-Party Talks By the U.S. Department of State

Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in Missile Defense and Non-Proliferation in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade The U.S. Department of State released this report on May 9th detailing recent developments in the Six Party Talks process. The report notes, “Eight out of 11 agreed disablement activities at the three core facilities have been completed. Work on disablement activities continues… These actions have halted the DPRK’s ability to produce additional weapons-grade plutonium for its nuclear weapons program.”

NAPSNet Daily Report 15 May, 2008

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Policy Forum 08-038: Nuclear Matters in North Korea: Building a Multilateral Response for Future Stability in Northeast Asia

James L. Schoff, Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at IFPA, Charles M. Perry, Vice President and Director of Studies at IFPA, and Jacquelyn K. Davis, Executive Vice President of IFPA, write, “Building a multilateral response for future stability in East Asia is not a way for the United States, or China, or any other country to abdicate responsibility for North Korea’s nuclear challenge. In fact, it is the growing convergence of interests amongst the countries involved (particularly between China and the United States) to strengthen regional and global non-proliferation norms that could potentially bind the nations of Northeast Asia closer together on security issues, rather than divide them into two separate camps.”