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Author : V. Denisov
Chief Research Associate, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, In-
stitute for International Studies, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Russian Federation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1996-2001
THE NUCLEAR CRISIS on the Korean Peninsula is escalating and
is increasingly difficult to resolve. The six-nation mechanism for ne-
gotiating a solution, which brings together Russia, China, the United
States, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea, has remained stalled
for more than five years. Agreements enshrined in the sextet's Joint
Statement of September 19, 2005 have never been put into practice.
Relations between the two Koreas are as sour today as ever, and time
and again tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul reach extremely
dangerous proportions.
All this is part of an overall aggravation of the situation in Northeast
Asia. There are increasingly intense territorial disputes between China
and Japan, between South Korea and Japan, and between South Korea and China. Beijing's de-
cision to set up an air defense identification zone in the South China Sea has become a new ir-
ritant.
THE GRAVITY of the nuclear problem calls for urgent measures to unblock the six-nation ne-
gotiation mechanism and for the fulfillment by all its participants of commitments they made in
the Joint Statement of September 19, 2005. The following measures might help attain those ob-
jectives:
1. The six nations would officially reaffirm their allegiance to all provisions of the Joint Statement
and pledge to fulfill every single aspect of their commitments under it.
2. North Korea would declare an indefinite moratorium on all forms of nuclear missile activi-
ties.
3. The United States and North Korea would start a dialogue to try to normalize their relations
and to remove obstacles to mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields.
4. Japan and North Korea would likewise begin negotiations to try to normalize their relations.
5. North Korea would take practical measures to fulfill its commitments under the 2005 Joint
Statement.
6. The UN Security Council would first mitigate and then lift its sanctions against North Korea.
7. North Korea and South Korea would resume dialogue and pledge loyalty to all earlier agree-
ments.
8. The two Koreas would launch coordinated measures to relax tensions on the Korean Peninsula
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