Posted September. 09, 2016 07:17,
Updated September. 09, 2016 08:35
"Pyongyang now has as much as 2500 tons of chemical weapons. It would be by far more fatal if Pyongyang decides to use it for terrorist acts. For this reason, its chemical weapons along with nuclear ones should be removed,” South Korea’s Defense Minister Han Min-goo said at his conversation with Ahmet Üzümcü, Director General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at the venue.
Kim Hong-gyun, Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs and David Sear, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Pacific policy at Department of Defense diagnosed the current status of Pyongyang’s nuclear issues and countermeasures under the subject of “denuclearization of North Korea and international cooperation.” Vice president Douglas H. Paal for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Professor Shi Yinhong at the Renmin University of China, Professor Noboru Yamaguchi at International University of Japan and Deputy Director Fedor Voitolovskiy at Institute of World Economy and International Relations moderated the discussion.
Having sent its authorities to the very first Seoul Defense Talk since 2012, China sent only private experts to the talk this year. In doing so, China is said to be expressing its discontent over the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.