The Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) is a non-governmental information network launched by the Nautilus Institute in November 1993. NAPSNet covers the key areas of research and policy work of the Nautilus Institute nodes in San Francisco, Melbourne and Seoul, including Austral security, nuclear deterrence, energy security, climate change adaptation, the DPRK, governance and civil society and the links between these themes and the three regions in which our nodes are found—North America, Northeast Asia, and the Austral-Asia region.
The Weekly Report succinctly presents six items each week that we believe every reader should know about these fields.
United States 1. US Security Strategy The United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, co- chaired by former US Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman, released the first of three planned papers on US Security for the coming century. The paper attempts to describe the world emerging in the first quarter of the next century. […]
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DPRK 1. DPRK Nationals in PRC The ROK government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continue to make protests to the PRC government over the deportation of seven DPRK nationals whom the UNHCR classified as refugees. The PRC maintains that the seven are simply illegal immigrants undeserving of any special status. “DPRK Nationals […]
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UNITED STATES 1. US Nonproliferation Policy In a talk at the National Press Club on January 6, US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger discussed US nonproliferation goals and foreign policy goals. John Holum, the US under secretary of state for arms control and international security, held a press conference on January 12 to discuss the […]
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Nautilus Director: Latest Korea Naval Standoff Likely To Be Defused June 16, 1999 Nautilus Co-Executive Director Peter Hayes tells Ted Clark on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered that the ROK (South Korea) is under pressure to show “backbone” in dealing with the DPRK (North Korea), but there are signs of de-escalation. Nautilus Receives […]
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