NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 21, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 21, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 21, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK at ASEAN 2. DPRK Military Reshuffle 3. DPRK Illicit Drug Supply and Demand 4. DPRK Tourism 5. DPRK-Myanmar Relations 6. ROK, DPRK on Comfort Women Issue 7. US-ROK Security Alliance 8. ROK Trade Relations 9. Japan Constitutional […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, May 18, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, May 18, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, May 18, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. Road to Reunification 3. Need for DPRK to Upgrade Its Facilities 4. Railway Sets Stage for Economic Cooperation 5. DJ at a Loss for Words 6. Large Costs Ahead 7. Can’t Continue Buying Friendship […]

Policy Forum 07-039: Prime Minister Abe’s Visit to the United States

Yukio Okamoto, president of Okamoto Associates, Inc., and former chairman of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizmi’s Task Force on Foreign Relations, writes, “The summit should be seen as a solid first step. In the coming year, Prime Minister Abe will be probably be asking the Bush Administration to join his government in the crafting of a detailed and inspiring vision of America’s and Japan’s common future.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 17, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 17, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 17, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Funds Transfer 2. DPRK-Iran Military Cooperation 3. Inter-Korean Railway 4. Japan-ROK Relations 5. US on Japanese Constitutional Revision 6. Japan Defense Policy 7. PRC African Diplomacy 8. PRC Land Development 9. PRC Environment Preceding NAPSNet Report I. […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 16, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 16, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 16, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US on DPRK Frozen Funds 2. US-DPRK Relations 3. US on Inter-Korean Rapprochement 4. ROK Aid to DPRK 5. Japan on DPRK Military Capability 6. Green on 6-P Peace Mechanism 7. US-ROK Trade Relations 8. Australia-ROK Trade Relations […]

Policy Forum 07-038: Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea

Gavan McCormack, a coordinator at Japan Focus and author of the book Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, writes, “The maturity and the humanity of states and societies, as in the case of individuals, may be measured by the way they face the darkest moments of their own history. The contrast between recent judgments in courts in South Korea and Japan points to a gulf in terms of civic maturity, with South Korea apparently showing the way to Japan.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 15, 2007

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 15, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 15, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Frozen Funds 2. Inter-Korean Rail Test Run 3. DPRK Trade 4. EU-ROK FTA and Kaesong 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. PRC on Japanese Constitutional Revision 7. ROK on Japanese Constitutional Revision 8. Japan Missile Defense Program […]

AdaptNet for 15 May 2007

  1. Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation in Asia
  2. Developing Global Reaction Capacity to Disasters
  3. Reconciling Supply of Information with User Demand
  4. Climate Change Impacts on Melbourne’s Water Supply
  5. How to Integrate Adaptation and Mitigation Globally
  6. CAIWA 2007 – International Conference on Water Management