On September 28, 2011 Duyeon Kim, Deputy Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, was quoted by Korean Media about the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. Yonhap News: Click here for the story or see below (rough translation): Click here for Yonhap News (English Language, different lead) or see below. The […]
Fact Sheet: 66th UN General Assembly | Nuclear Safety-Security & Treaties
by Duyeon Kim and Andrew Carpenter BACKGROUND A High-level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security will be held at the 66th UN General Assembly on September 22nd, 2011 in New York. The conference was called for by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who announced his plans to host the meeting at the 25th anniversary of the 1986 […]
[Op-Ed] Nature and Malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure
by Duyeon Kim Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 7, 2011: Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure By Igor Khripunov and Duyeon Kim | 7 September 2011 Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different […]
A Certain Uncertain Certainty (Preview of U.S.-DPRK Talks)
By Duyeon Kim Washington appears to be anticipating some answers from Pyongyang in talks this week in Geneva, but it might have already gotten a response – from the Dear Leader himself. A senior State Department official told reporters on background on October 19: “They (North Korea) needed to absorb the message (from July). They’ve […]
[Op-Ed] Time to Think Nuclear Safety-Security
by Duyeon Kim and Igor Khripunov Published in the Korea Times on August 9, 2011 (Korea Standard Time). The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster gave terrorists and other malefactors a tip. By targeting nuclear plants, they can wreak havoc comparable to that wrought by an earthquake and tsunami, crippling a great economic and military power. True, no […]
