• Independent Task Force on Testing North Korea

  Director:	Robert A. Manning, Former C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, and Director, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
  Chair:	James T. Laney
  Staff:	The Honorable Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation

  January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2001

  
  

   

  Publications

  

  September 2001

  Testing North Korea

  Task Force Report No. 35

  Before North Korea decided to restart its nuclear weapons facilities in 2002, this blue-ribbon group of experts voiced its concern that North Korea would do just that. It warns in this report that progress made on the Korean Peninsula was fragile and “diplomatic gains achieved by the United States and South Korea in the past decade are not irreversible.” Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions could raise tensions and produce the kind of confrontation that almost led to war in 1994. It could also lead Pyongyang to lift its self-imposed moratorium on ballistic missile tests. To head off these dangers, the Task Force urges that the Bush administration treat North Korea as a foreign policy priority and for what it is: both a fragile and a dangerous power. The Task Force recommends that the United States and its allies in the region use both economic carrots and sticks in working with Pyongyang.

   

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  Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism

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  China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security

  In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

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  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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