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International Relations Of East Asia Especially South And North Korea Term Paper

Stabilizing International Relations in East Asia and Possibility of Institutionalization The current relationship status between nations in East Asia is souring as the clock ticks. There is major instability with regards to the security problems especially as far as the North and South Korea are concerned. An arms race is going on with North Korea trying to accumulate Weapons of Mass Destruction. Recently it announced of its possession. This project aims to find a solution to eliminate this instability and how the nations can come together to ensure peace in the region.

Asian countries are facing a block in their relationship with each other. India and Pakistan are hardly moving forward on the Kashmir Issue while the Koreas are still in an unstable environment. The common denominator to cause such instability is the proliferation of weapons and the question of how to set the standards of common security. With the U.S. aiming for the elitist weapons, and aiding South Korea, begins a chain reaction in countries like China and North Korea that opt for producing more sophisticated weapons 'China's chief of arms control issued a new warning ... that U.S. plans for a national missile defense system, even if intended to stop attacks from countries like North Korea and Iraq, would set off a global arms race and cause more countries to develop nuclear weapons" (Eric Eckholm: 1999)

The Koreas have fought previously with the U.S. aiding the South...

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At the 38 parallel there lies now a 2000m wide demilitarized zone. The relations of the East Asian countries have always been sour and China has fought nearly all of its neighbors. In the early 1990s, an analysis of the relationship of East Asian countries as well as East Asian security has resulted in labeling them as a dangerous neighborhood. North Korea remained a state with siege mentality and a very strong nuclear commitment. Today although talks are being conducted and there is active dialogue, there is some hindrance in the process due to the policies that states acquire. The North and South Korea have been recently involved in trying to resolve their issues. May 2005 marked the month in which at the end of a four day intensive talk between the two countries, the South promised to send the North 200,000 tons of fertilizer and both sides unanimously agreed for the cooperation in attaining peace in the Korean Peninsula (Anonymous).
East Asia, North and South Korean in particular, need to expand their talks to a productive level and require institutionalizing the road way that would lead to peace and tranquility. The West adopts the process of setting up co-operation and understanding from the root level all the way to the top. However, the Asian concept of institutionalizing aims for the analytical study of the norms and culture of others and then aim to find out the common things to understand and build confidence in…

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(1) Eckholm, E., "China to U.S.: Back Off Treaty Charges." The New York Times, 25 November 1999.

(2) Anonymous, Korea, South -- History [online website]. Available from: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107690.html [Accessed on: 05/09/05]

(3) Guan C.K., "The Relevance of The OSCE Experience to The Asia Pacific" [online website] Available from: http://www.osce-arf.de/Pub/Conference/Kwa-paper.pdf [Accessed on: 05/09/05]
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