Policy Forum 07-009: What North Korea Really Wants

Robert Carlin, a former State Department analyst who participated in most of the U.S.-North Korea negotiations between 1993 and 2000, and John Lewis, professor emeritus at Stanford University who directs projects on Asia at the university’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, write, “Denuclearization, if still achievable, can come only when North Korea sees its strategic problem solved, and that, in its view, can happen only when relations with the United States improve.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, February 01, 2007

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East Asia Science & Security Network Report, Jan. 31, 2007

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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 30, 2007

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Ex-spy’s novel sheds light on N Korea

Peter Hayes: Ex-spy’s novel sheds light on N Korea, The Peninsula – Qatar, 2007-01-30 [Corpse in the Koryo] gives the “best unclassified account of how North Korea works and why it has survived all these years,” said Peter Hayes of the California-based Nautilus Institute think tank.