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Article: Look, no bomb: the Koreas.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1992
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THE Korean peninsula looked a little safer this week. On December 31st the North and South agreed in principle to ban nuclear weapons. This followed a pact earlier in the month that promised reconciliation and non-aggression by the two foes. The Korean war fought in 1950-53 at last seems formally to be ending.
The new agreement was signed at Panmunjom, a town that lies across the cold war's last frontier. It is expected to be endorsed by the prime ministers of the two countries this month and come into force in February. It says that neither country will "test, manufacture, produce, accept, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear weapons". It bans nuclear ...