Roughly 150 persons are attending Gensuikin's international meeting, where experts on nuclear issues from the U.S., South Korea, and other nations are exchanging views. Rikkyo University's Professor Lee Jong Wong (an East Asian international relations specialist) analyzed the situation as follows: "With North Korea increasingly isolated over its development of nuclear weapons, the administration is using those weapons as a way of holding onto power." "The U.S must abandon its policy of applying pressure backed by military threats, said Lee, if the six-party talks to solve the problem are to be successful.

Hyun-Sook Lee, co-representative of the South Korean grass-roots group Women Making Peace, said that the U.S. and North Korea must conclude a non-aggression treaty based on a U.S. promise not to invade North Korea. Steven Schwartz, publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which is known for a "Doomsday Clock" that shows the "minutes remaining until nuclear war," severely criticized the U.S. plan to develop new kinds of nuclear weapons and its willingness to wage preemptive war. Schwartz said, "We must continue to grow the anti-war movement that expanded with the Iraq war."