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North Korea's Anti-nuclear paradox, 1949–76
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Luc-André BRUNET and Eirini KARAMOUZI (eds), Beyond the Euromissile Crisis : global histories of anti-nuclear activism in the Cold War, New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2025, Protest, culture & society ; 33, pp. 322-344
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SHIN, Soon-Ok, North Korea’s Anti-nuclear paradox, 1949–76, in Luc-André BRUNET and Eirini KARAMOUZI (eds), Beyond the Euromissile Crisis : global histories of anti-nuclear activism in the Cold War, New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2025, Protest, culture & society ; 33, pp. 322-344 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93102
Abstract
In 1960, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereinafter DPRK or North Korea) issued a Peace Appeal, which stated that ‘contrary to the earnest desire of the whole world at the time of the cease-fire in Korea, Korea has not yet been unified, armistice has not been converted into a lasting peace and the dark clouds of war hovering over the heads of the Korean people have not been dispelled’. More than seventy years on, the Korean Peninsula has still not been unified, nor has the armistice treaty been replaced with an end-of-war declaration, let alone a peace treaty. Meanwhile, North Korea, while pledging a normative commitment to denuclearisation simultaneously emphasised the inevitability of nuclear development in response to a hostile United States. North Korea crossed the nuclear threshold in 2006 and solidified its status as a de facto nuclear power after conducting five additional tests between 2009 and 2017.
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Published online: April 2025