Nuclearisation of Divided Nations: Pakistan-India-Korea

This book aims at understanding why the divided nations like India-Pakistan and two Koreas are conflict-prone. The book analyses that the possession of nuclear weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (W/MD) in these countries will prove dangerous only in the event of North Korea and Pakistan collapsing, thanks to their essentially authoritarian and non-democratic political structures as well as the obsession with the policy of forcibly changing the existing boundaries of South Asia and the Korean peninsula. Indeed, this book shows how non-democratic nations have a natural tendency of not only to threaten the use of the W/MD but also to establish linkages among themselves. Accordingly, the book dwells at length the growing military collaborations, both overt and covert, between Pakistan and North Korea, with China playing the role of a great facilitator. It is argued in this book that in order to meet the grave challenges arising from the growing alliance of these essentially despotic countries, democracies like India and South Korea should develop stronger affinity between them and involve other democratic countries such as Japan and the United States in the task.