Comprehensive Security and Regional Cooperation in Northeast Asia

“Comprehensive Security and Regional Cooperation in Northeast Asia”

Key principles and aims of the Helsinki Final Act (HFA), the basis for the OSCE, correspond in many cases to those in the 1992 Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-Aggression and Exchanges and Cooperation between South and North Korea, the so-called Inter-Korean Basic Agreement. Finding common ground to move forward may thus be more effectively achieved through diplomacy and cooperation, rather than through deterrence and confrontation.

Read the full policy brief by Dr Frances Mautner-Markhof here.