On Friday 2 July from 6:30 pm-8:45 pm (KST), APLN co-hosted an international seminar on Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses with the Sejong Institute, Pugwash Japan, the International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (PRIME), and the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA). The event is supported by the Open Society Foundations. 

Senior Japanese experts presented papers assessing Japan’s responses to nuclear threats in Northeast Asia, the threat assessment of China and DPRK, and views of the younger generation on nuclear weapons and the atomic bombings.

This seminar is the second of two events on the “nuclear domino” effect in Northeast Asia. The first seminar on Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and South Korean Responses was held on 14 May 2021 and was co-hosted by APLN, the Sejong Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Pugwash Japan, The Research Institute of National Security Affairs of the Korea National Defense University (KNDU), The Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS), and was supported by the Open Society Foundation.

Program Agenda