title: The North Korean Nuclear Issue and the Northeast Asia Situation: Retrospect and Prospect
abstract: AbstractThe paper deals with the analysis of the following five issues:- The Northeast Asia situation during the Cold War era;- The hierarchy of threats and challenges in NEA at present;- The third nuclear test in North Korea (reasons, consequences, and threats);- The North political future through the prism of the collapse of the Soviet Union;- Northeast Asian security and cooperation prospects.The main ideas of the paper are firstly that the North regime is historically doomed and secondly tha