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The North Korean Nuclear Problem, Japan, and the Peace of Northeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Wada Haruki  and
Gavan McCormack
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Since the Six Party Beijing Agreement on North Korea of 13 February 2007, optimism has spread on all fronts save one – Japan. For the Abe government, nuclear weapons constitute only part of the North Korea problem. Indeed, as Wada Haruki notes below, for the Japanese government it is not nuclear weapons but the abduction problem that constitutes “the most important problem our country faces.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , e9
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