The failure of the Hanoi summit made clear the limitations of bilateral talks, especially those between two leaders known to be temperamental.
The U.S.-North Korea Hanoi summit ended with no agreement. Now the beautiful words of peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the goal agreed upon in Singapore last June, are ringing hollow.
The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are speaking, even today, of their unbearable suffering that has continued for over seven decades. The immediate terror of the bombs turned into long-term suffering as radiation caused multiple types of cancers, even decades later. Those who abandoned family members had to go through their lives in trauma. They say they have experienced the “hell.” We must ensure that hell never visits humanity again.
The host countries Singapore and Vietnam, as nuclear-weapon-free states, contributed greatly by providing neutral places to talk. Now regional stakeholders, including China and other members of the halted six-party talks, as well as the United Nations, should play a more active role to prevent further setbacks and move the disarmament agenda forward.
South Korea has a vital and often forgotten role to play in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. The country continues to officially rely on the so-called “nuclear umbrella” policy, in which South Korea takes part in the U.S. nuclear war game and declares the U.S. could launch a nuclear attack on the nation’s behalf. The same applies to Japan. It is also essential to remove these threats, through pursuing nuclear disarmament on the side of the U.S. and its allies.
South Africa once developed nuclear bombs under the Apartheid government. The nation was an isolated state under international sanctions. They realized nuclear weapons were part of a weak and inhumane regime. The country abandoned them all as they shifted to a modern democracy and accepted international verification. It has now become a disarmament champion, this week ratifying the nuclear prohibition treaty. South Africa shows that denuclearization is possible.
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