The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new report, Building Security through Cooperation: Report of the NTI Working Group on Cooperative Threat Reduction with North Korea. Based on the idea proposed by former Senators Sam Nunn and the late Richard Lugar, the report explores how the vital lessons from the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program with the former Soviet Union could be adapted to current diplomatic efforts to achieve denuclearization in North Korea.

 

The report details the potential benefits and complexities of pursuing CTR with North Korea, taking into account the significant differences between the former Soviet states in 1991 and the DPRK today. Please join Ernest J. Moniz, Sam Nunn, and NTI co-authors Lynn Rusten and Richard Johnson for a discussion of how a CTR program with the DPRK could help facilitate successful negotiations with North Korean leaders; how a program might be structured to both reduce future WMD and proliferation-related threats posed by the DPRK and provide the DPRK with potential positive benefits for the economy, health, safety, and security of the North Korean people; and how international partners could contribute to a CTR approach.