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North Korean Leader Had Surgery After Stroke, South Koreans Say
North Korean Leader Had Surgery After Stroke, South Koreans Say, Mark Mazzetti and Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 11 September 2008 “If Mr. Kim dies or is incapacitated, who is going to take over the world’s most isolated and unpredictable regime, now armed with nuclear weapons? “Peter Hayes, director at the Nautilus Institute, a research […]
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Search Begins for New Japanese PM, Jason Strother, Voice of America, 2 September 2008 Timothy Savage, deputy director of the Nautilus Institute, a regional policy research group, in Seoul, says the LDP is struggling to find a leader who can stay in office. “What you have going on is the LDP is trying to hold […]
Go to the articleMongolia Should Be Higher on US Agenda
Mongolia Should Be Higher on US Agenda, Tom Keene, On the Economy, Bloomberg Radio, 7 July 2008 Stephen Noerper, a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute at the University of San Francisco, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about the state of Mongolia’s democracy, Japan-China relations and the meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations.
Go to the articleNorth Korea to Blow up Nuclear Reactor Tower
North Korea to Blow up Nuclear Reactor Tower, Rob Sharp with Peter Hayes, ABC, 27 June 2008 Commenting on recent developments in the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear program, Hayes states: “what is really going on here is that the whole process really amounts to confirming that North Koreans have nuclear weapons at the moment, […]
Go to the articleNorth Korea to Deliver Nuclear List Today, U.S. Says
North Korea to Deliver Nuclear List Today, U.S. Says (Update2), Ed Johnson and Viola Gienger, Bloomberg, 26 June 2008 “North Korea and the U.S. are agreed on completing” the declaration and disablement phase of the disarmament accord, said Timothy Savage, deputy director at the Nautilus Institute in Seoul. What the communist regime will do in […]
Go to the articleNuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission
Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission, 3CR (Melbourne), 12 June 2008 Prof Richard Tanter, says Rudd’s proposal for a Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Commission comes close to work of Gareth Evans and the Canberra Commission in the 1990s, which came close to an abolitionist position in a report dropped by Alexander Downer. Tanter says DFAT knows […]
Go to the articleSouth Korea Restricts Beef Imports
South Korea Restricts Beef Imports, Jason Strother, The World, Public Radio International, 4 June 2008 “The real problem is actually that the Lee Myung Bak regime has lost the trust of the people, and transparency and communication are needed to resolve the Beef issue.”
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North Korea hands over nuclear documents, Sen Lam with Peter Hayes, ABC, 15 May 2008 The United States has described as “an important first step,” the handing over of North Korean documents detailing the country’s nuclear programme. “They will be the first primary materials supplied by the North Koreans as to the operating profile of […]
Go to the articleNorth Korea Accused of Helping Syria Build a Secret Nuclear Reactor
North Korea Accused of Helping Syria Build a Secret Nuclear Reactor, Tom Fayle, Radio Australia, ABC, 25 April 2008 BRUCE: “Well at this point in time Christopher Hill is making a hard sell to the US Congress of a declaration of North Korea’s nuclear activity. Under a February 2007 agreement North Korea was required to […]
Go to the articleNow for the hard part
Now for the hard part, Daniel Flitton, Age, 1 April 2008 “My guess is they frankly worked it out,” says RMIT’s Richard Tanter. “(Rudd) is going to Japan in July for a summit, and there will be side meetings there. “I’m sure some people are miffed, but frankly the Australian relationship with Japan is much […]
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