Human Rights Watch calls on the United States government:
* to drop its insistence that any ban on antipersonnel mines must include exceptions for the use of both long-lasting "dumb" mines and self-destructing "smart" mines on the Korean peninsula, and for the use of "smart" mines everywhere else. The U.S. military's own archival resources presented in this report indicate that antipersonnel mines do not play an essential role in defending Korea or protecting the lives of U.S. soldiers.
* to declare its support for the Ottawa Process, to participate in the treaty negotiations in Oslo in September, and to go to Ottawa in December 1997 to sign an antipersonnel mine ban treaty without exceptions for Korea or self-destruct mines.
* to undertake immediately unilateral steps toward a ban, including renunciation of the production of all antipersonnel mines, and development of a timetable for the destruction of both "dumb" and "smart" mines-as opposed to current policy which only calls for destruction of three-fourths of U.S. dumb mines and no smart mines.