Conference of Northeast Asian Peace and Security Council is currently being held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. During the conference, representatives from the region are discussing Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and the US deployment of two aircraft carriers off the Korean peninsula.

One of the outcomes of the Northeast Asian Peace and Security Council has been an initiative for preventing armed conflicts. This was initiated by the Nagasaki University’s  nuclear weapon prohibition research centre; for the first time North Korea is participating.