Nuclear Reset - Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE)

344<strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Reset</strong>: Arms Reduction and Nonproliferationnuclear weapons and dismantle its weapons program in exchange fornormalized relations with Japan, South Korea, and the United Statesand economic assistance, but the negotiations ended in a deadlock.The North Korean leadership tried to use the negotiations to masktheir actual course of pursuing the development of missiles and nuclearweapons.28 United Nations Document S/RES/1718 (2006).29 The Committee was established on October 14, 2006, and on June 20,2007, it approved the guidelines for its activities. Between January 1,2007, and July 16, 2009, the Committee issued four reports about itsactivities.30 UN Document S/RES/1874 (2009).31 Under UNSCR 1718, only certain types of conventional weapons (such astanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, attack helicopters,etc.), items related to weapons of mass destruction and ballisticmissiles were prohibited from import into or export from North Korea.32 Eliminating <strong>Nuclear</strong> Threats, P. 183.33 The world got its first real sense of the scale of this “nuclear supermarket”in 2003 with the neutralization of the illicit network led by Pakistaninuclear scientist A.Q. Khan (the services of which had been availableto such customers as Iran, Libya, North Korea, and possibly others).34 The resolution was unanimously adopted on April 28, 2004. UN DocumentS/RES/1540 (2004).35 The PSI was first proposed in May 2003 by U.S. President George W.Bush.36 See: http://www.mid.ru/ns-osndoc.nsf/0e9272befa34209743256c630042d1aa/8abb3c17eb3d2626c32575b500320ae4?OpenDocument.37 Eliminating <strong>Nuclear</strong> Threats, P. 97.38 This characterization has been offered by the authors of the InternationalCommission on <strong>Nuclear</strong> Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report referredto above. See: Eliminating <strong>Nuclear</strong> Threats, P. 207.39 Ibid, P. 90.40 Ibid, P.252.41 2005 World Summit Outcome, UN Document A/RES/60/1, Par. 178,Sept. 16, 2005.42 Ban Ki-Moon expounded on this topic further in his October 24, 2008,address to New York’s EastWest Institute. See: http://www.acronym.org.uk/textonly/dd/dd89/89news01.htm.