North Korea's nuclear programme
The Players:
•North Korea
•United States
•China
•South Korea
•Japan
•Russia

• The basic non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
• Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons and elimination of nuclear weapons and an ending of nuclear arms race.
• For many countries, transnational crime and small arms was seen as a potent combination in disrupting peace in other countries.

Specialists have declared nuclear terrorism the “most horrifying” threat to civilization today, and have given it the highest priority in his National Security Strategy. To date, no detonations of illicitly obtained nuclear weapons, improvised nuclear devices, or radiological dirty bombs have occurred. But the potential threat of nuclear terrorism, in all its forms, is perceived to be increasing.

The four forms of nuclear terrorism, varying in likelihood and destructiveness, are:
•Theft or purchase by terrorists of a nuclear weapon from the arsenals of the US, Russia, or other nuclear powers.
•Acquisition by terrorists of highly enriched uranium (HEU) or plutonium for use in an improvised nuclear device.
•Terrorist attacks on or sabotage of nuclear reactors or transport vehicles.
•The building and use of radiological dispersal devices (dirty bombs).
North Korea

Pyongyang was formally introduced to the threat of nuclear weapons during the Korean War. They remained there until 1991, when they were removed under the American-Russian Presidential Nuclear Initiatives. North Korea's use of the threat of nuclear weapons as a deterrent to hostile US policies and possible aggression by the US against North Korea stems from these incidents.

North Korea has an incentive to exaggerate the external threat for domestic political reasons. North Korea is flaunting is nuclear weapons programme to the international community in order to secure its survival and to prevent external aggression against the regime.

The United States and North Korea are still technically at war: the 1953 armistice was never replaced with a peace treaty. The United States has been unwilling to discuss even a nonaggression pact, much less a peace treaty or normalization of ties. With the United States openly belligerent toward it, labeling North Korea a terrorist nation.

North Korea already has the conventional capability to destroy Seoul. North Korea can already target the Japanese islands with their Scud missiles. North Korea pursues a nuclear weapons program for the same reason that other highly vulnerable nations arm themselves. North Korea’s suspected nuclear weapons, missile programs, and massive conventional military deployments are of defense.

United States

the United States’ position has centered on containment through economic sanctions and political pressure. Washington's focus on North Korea shifted from preserving the international nuclear nonproliferation regime to preventing terrorist organizations from acquiring nuclear weapons material.

The US finds North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, developed in tandem with a ballistic missile programme, alarming. Washington views the DPRK as projecting hostility towards the United States. The possibility of North Korea transferring nuclear weapons to terrorist groups is one of the United States' major concerns.

Bush's 'axis of evil' speech was an ineffective attempt to link the North Korean nuclear issue to countering terrorism. Despite the North's terrorist acts against its southern neighbor in the 1980s and it’s harboring of Japanese Red Army faction members, the threat emanating from North Korea at present is less terrorism and more regional instability spawned by nuclear proliferation or an increase in the flow of refugees."

China

China new leadership role in the multi-party talks is also predicated on its desire to maintain its economic growth and ultimately achieve its goal of having a society in which the majority of the population in middle class. Integrating China further into the international political and economic order to help secure stable markets, and developing broad and deep relations with the United States to eliminate the need for excessive military spending. China has been extremely vigilant against all security threats that might disrupt its economic growth and the flow of direct investment into the country.

China's main concern in this situation is maintaining regional stability. While China is an ally of North Korea with great influence, China worries that if North Korea does not abandon its nuclear weapons programme, either a regional nuclear arms or a war between the United States and North Korea will erupt. The collapse of Kim Jong Il's regime based on "an imploding North Korean economy" would lead to a massive flow of refugees into China.

South Korea

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s primary concern has been maintaining regional stability and security. A stable Koran peninsula allows President Roh to maintain an environment in which to promote his administration’s "Peace and Prosperity Policy. South Korea is seeking a gradual integration and reunification of the two Koreas through direct investment and inter-Korean trade.

Economic sanctions and political pressure from Washington have been unsuccessful in halting North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. The increase in pro-active negotiations between North and South Korea, in direct opposition to US policy change its refusal to negotiate with Pyongyang.

Japan

Japan’s top priority in dealing with the North Korean nuclear programme has been maintaining regional peace and stability.. Of specific concern is the potential for a nuclear armed missile attack on Tokyo.

Despite many in Tokyo’s belief that Japan could effectively lead multilateral talks to achieve a nuclear weapons free Korean peninsula and ensure regional and international security, their actions are constrained by the majority of Japanese citizens who feel that the abduction issue must be resolved first.

Russia

Moscow's main interest in the North Korea nuclear crisis appears to be mercantile. Russia is now keen to leverage its substantial oil resources strategically to play China and Japan off of each other.

Although the oil pipeline deals are economically lucrative for the Russians, they also serve an important political function as a tool with which Moscow can create influence in Northeast Asia." Russia has stayed open for business and continued to pursue economic deals within Northeast Asia.

Conclusion:

Feelings of insecurity and humiliation, exaggerated by the nuclear imbalance, are behind the spread of bomb development programs at the national level. The world should stop treating the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea as isolated cases and instead deal with them in a common effort to eliminate poverty, organized crime and armed conflict.

Risk can be defined as the probability of an event multiplied by its consequences. The higher the probability is of the consequences, the higher the risk.

Mission:

The Committee will begin its whole work by holding a general debate on all disarmament and international security items to talk about Nuclear disarmament new opportunities to advance this problematic in different ways. Debate may consist on the need to reach "nuclear zero" but opinions change on the best way to get there. There fore it is the obligation of each delegate to present new points of view on this important subject and invite discussion and debate which will bring you all to a strong resolution that all can follow.

Questions:

1. How to get more nuclear-zero-zones?
2. Who to advance in nuclear disarmament programmes?
3. How to combate the nuclear terrorism ambitions?
4. How to control the production of bombs in developed countries?