Duyeon Kim

Kim is the deputy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where her policy work focuses on North Korea, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear terrorism prevention. She is a former career journalist from Seoul, Korea, having served as the Foreign Affairs Ministry correspondent and Unification Ministry correspondent for a leading South Korean broadcaster. Her news stories covered North Korea's nuclear programs, the Six-Party Talks, inter-Korean relations, US foreign policy, South Korean foreign policy, and the United Nations.

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Articles by Duyeon Kim

Opinion
30 March 2012
Nuclear Weapons

2012 Nuclear Security Summit: What it was and wasn’t

Duyeon Kim

This week, world leaders descended on Seoul, South Korea, for the second global Nuclear Security Summit -- a project that started with President Obama's call to secure all vulnerable nuclear material in four years (by the end of 2013). Unfortunately, most of these world leaders did not storm the gates of the summit ready to fight for that deadline. Many walked into a meeting already overshadowed by various domestic agendas and geopolitics, putting a damper on the real purpose of the gathering.

Opinion
1 March 2012
Nuclear Energy

North Korea: Small step forward, many more to go

Duyeon Kim

For the first time in years, there is some welcome news out of North Korea: Washington and Pyongyang have finally struck a deal. North Korea agreed, for the time being, to issue a moratorium on uranium enrichment as well as nuclear and missile tests, which would help relieve tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang vowed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its Yongbyon nuclear facilities to verify the anticipated uranium enrichment freeze.

1 January 2012
Features

Where nuclear safety and security meet

Duyeon KimJungmin Kang
Opinion
7 September 2011

Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure

Duyeon Kim

Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different outcomes. At Fukushima, 40-plus-year-old reactors shut down as designed on March 11 following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, but the combination of ruptured offsite power supply lines and generators flooded by the ensuing tsunami led to a massive meltdown.

Special Topics
18 March 2011
Nuclear WeaponsClimate ChangeNuclear Energy

Fukushima and the Seoul 2012 Nuclear Security Summit

Duyeon Kim
Opinion
18 March 2011
Nuclear WeaponsNuclear Energy

Fukushima and the Seoul 2012 Nuclear Security Summit

Duyeon Kim

In considering the implications of Fukushima for the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, many experts in the United States would probably argue that there are none -- their fundamental point being that it is a security summit, not a safety summit.

However, it is undeniable that Japan's nuclear disaster has sounded alarm bells around the world. The words "nuclear reactor," "radiation," and "safety" have new resonance. Fear is inescapable.