Policy Forum

Nautilus Institute’s Policy Forum‘s focus is on the timely publication of expert analysis and op-ed style pieces on the foremost of security-related issues to Northeast Asia. Its mission is to facilitate a multilateral flow of information among an international network of policy-makers, analysts, scholars, media, and readers. Policy Forum essays are typically from a wide range of expertise, political orientations, as well as geographic regions and seeks to present readers with opinions and analysis by experts on the issues as well as alternative voices not typically presented or heard. Feedback, comments, responses from Policy Forum readers are highly encouraged.

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NAPSNet Policy Forum Online #2 — Norton, “Ending the Korean Armistice”

This new study on the legal issues involved in ending the Korean Armistice is an important contribution to the public understanding of the issues underlying the U.S.-North Korea-South Korea joint briefings on the proposed 4-power talks to end the Korean conflict, scheduled to start on March 5. This study will be followed by fora on perspectives from North and South Korea, Russia, Japan, China, Australia, and the United Kingdom over the coming months.

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Policy Forum 97-03: Ending the Korean Armistice Agreement: The Legal Issues

This new study on the legal issues involved in ending the Korean Armistice is an important contribution to the public understanding of the issues underlying the U.S.-North Korea-South Korea joint briefings on the proposed 4-power talks to end the Korean conflict, schedule to start on March 5. Patrick M. Norton currently is a partner in the law firm Alston & Bird, in Washington D.C. He previously worked for the U.S. State Department studying the legal aspects of ending the Korean Armistice, and is uniquely qualified to provide a U.S. perspective on this topic.

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Policy Forum 97-05: Debating the DPRK-Taiwan Nuclear Waste Deal

The recently announced deal between Taiwan and the DPRK to transport and store Taiwan’s low-level nuclear waste in the DPRK has incited a storm of protest from South Korea and has sparked controversy throughout the region. This essay by Dr. Peter Hayes, Co-Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development and author of numerous published works on nuclear and security issues on the Korean peninsula, departs from the largely political debate over the issue by introducing a technical dimension regarding the quantities and relative significance of the amounts of radioactive waste involved in the deal.

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Kim Response to Norton, “Ending The Korean Armistice”

Kim Response to Norton, “Ending The Korean Armistice” Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Discussion of Ending the Korean Armistice Agreement: The Legal Issues #2(b) — March, 1997 On March 3, NAPSNet featured a paper by Patrick M. Norton, “Ending The Korean Armistice Agreement: The Legal Issues.” A set of questions based on the work […]

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Policy Forum 97-04: Technological Alternatives to Reduce Emissions from Energy Production in Northeast Asia

Examines current technological alternatives for reducing emissions from energy production, analyzes costs and externalities associated with these technological alternatives, and suggests possible joint US-Japanese policy initiatives for implementing the technological alternatives.

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Innovative Approaches to Financing Environmentally Sustainable Energy Development in Northeast Asia

Innovative Approaches to Financing Environmentally Sustainable Energy Development in Northeast Asia by: Dr. Hossein Razavi January 1997 * DRAFT * PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION * DRAFT *Copyright (c) 1997 Nautilus of America/The Nautilus InstituteFunding for this paper provided by The W. Alton Jones Foundation, The U.S.-Japan Foundation and The Center for […]

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Marine Environmental Cooperation in Northeast Asia

Hyon-Jin KIM Visiting Fellow Harvard University     presented at the ESENA Workshop: Energy-Related Marine Issues in the Sea of Japan Tokyo, Japan 11-12 July 1998 1. Introduction Since the late 1980s, regional concern about transboundary environmental problems in Northeast Asia has increased and collective efforts to control them have been initiated. Specifically, in the […]

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Policy Forum 99-01: Toward an Ocean Management Regime in the Sea of Japan

Argues that an excellent opportunity exists to build a comprehensive environmental management regime for the Sea of Japan and sets forth an outline for a “model” management regime.

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NORTH KOREAN REGRETS AND THE US-DPRK AGREED FRAMEWORK

NORTH KOREAN REGRETS AND THE US-DPRK AGREED FRAMEWORK NAPSNet VIRTUAL FORUM: North Korean Regrets and the US-DPRK Agreed Framework In response to the Op-Ed by Peter Hayes, Breaking the Logjam , NAPSNet posted six questions to our readers. Below are responses from: Ralph Cossa Executive Director, Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) […]

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Policy Forum 97-01: Breaking the Logjam: North Korea Regrets and the U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework

Dr. Hayes, Co-Director of the Nautilus Institute, writes that the “package” deal announced on December 30, 1996, whereby the DPRK apologized for its September 18/96 submarine incursion into ROK waters has been in the making for nearly two months. In that time, U.S. officials have wrestled with both Koreas, but especially with the South Koreans. The outcome of this maneuvering was either an inevitable train-wreck in which the U.S-DPRK Agreed Framework would have been destroyed; or a breakthrough in which everyone agreed to get off the tracks and to concentrate on the big problems, not the small ones. Dr. Hayes has visited North Korea four times and is co-author and editor with Young Whan Kihl of

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