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NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 03, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 03, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 03, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. U.S. Must Compromise 3. Troop Dispatch to Blame 4. Show Flexibility with Negotiations 5. Taliban Not Terrorists 6. ROK Must Persuade US 7. Inciting Anti-Americanism 8. Incident Harming Alliance 9. Effect on Elections 10. […]

APSNet for 20070802

APSNet for 20070802 Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Twice weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia. Thursday 2 August 2007 Open Your Gates to Migrants: Bank Chief Australia Signs Comprehensive Security and Economic Pact with ASEAN ASEAN Calls for Phased Pullout of Foreign Troops from Iraq 400 Killed by Terrorism in Philippines […]

Policy Forum 07-057: Turnabout is Fair Play

Leon V. Sigal, Director of the Northeast Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council and author of Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea, writes, “The irreconcilables insist Pyongyang will never live up to its pledge… How can they be so sure? The fact is, with the possible exception of Kim Jong-il, nobody knows. And the only way for Washington to find out is to proceed, reciprocal step by reciprocal step, in sustained negotiations to reconcile with Pyongyang in return for its disarming.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 02, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 02, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 02, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Working Groups 2. DPRK-Japan Relations 3. DPRK Special Economic Zone 4. Inter-Korean Manufacturing 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Comfort Women Issue 7. US-Japan Relations 8. Japan SDF Deployment 9. US-PRC Trade Relations 10. PRC Military […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 01, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 01, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 01, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Working Groups Schedule 2. Radioactive Leak at Yongbyon 3. US-DPRK Relations 4. Brownback on DPRK Evangelist 5. New DPRK Foreign Minister 6. Japan, PRC Talks on DPRK 7. DPRK-Singapore Relations 8. DPRK-New Zealand Relations 9. Joint […]

Policy Forum 07-073: North Korea’s External Economic Relations

Stephan Haggard, Director of the Korea-Pacific Program (KPP) at the University of California at San Diego, and Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute, write, “the transformative effects of engagement on the North Korean economy are more likely to hold with respect to Chinese trade and investment with North Korea, which appears to occur on largely market-conforming terms, than they are with South Korea’s, which contains a very substantial noncommercial component.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 31, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 31, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 31, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. IAEA on Yongbyon Shutdown 2. DPRK on US-DPRK Relations 3. DPRK Nuclear Scientists 4. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 5. Japan Election 6. Japan SDF Mission in Golan Heights 7. Comfort Women Issue 8. PRC Environment Preceding NAPSNet Report […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, July 30, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, July 30, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, July 30, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program Shutdown 2. Philippines on Six Party Talks 3. DPRK-Philippino Relations 4. Koreas Joint Mining Operation 5. DPRK Local Elections 6. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 7. Japan Elections 8. Japan Hybrid Technology 9. PRC Military 10. […]