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Policy Forum 06-35A: US Financial Allegations — What They Mean

Nigel Cowie, General Manager of Daedong Credit Bank, writes, “the result of these actions against banks doing business with the DPRK being that criminal activities go underground and harder to trace, and legitimate businesses either give up, or end up appearing suspicious by being forced to use clandestine methods.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 04, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 04, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 04, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. DPRK Food Policy 3. DPRK Defectors 4. DPRK Human Rights 5. Swedish PM on DPRK Abductions 6. Kaesong Industrial Complex 7. ASEAN-Pacific Rim Relations 8. USFJ Realignment 9. Japan Terrorism 10. PRC-Australia Relations 11. […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 03, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 03, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 03, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. ROK on US DPRK Policy 3. DPRK Defectors 4. Inter-Korean Red Cross Aid 5. Inter-Korean Economic Talks 6. Inter-Korean Religious Cooperation 7. Inter-Korean Cultural Cooperation 8. DPRK Abduction Issue 9. DPRK Media […]

US Misses-Mines-for-Nukes Opportunity

Peter Hayes, Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute, writes, “while the United States is chasing the DPRK regime’s loose change in the short term to apply pressure, the regime is investing in minerals development, niche markets for exporting cheap labor or embodied labor, a boot-strapping service sector, and real estate development on the DMZ that combined, represent a long-term and slowly growing economic foundation for a nuclear-armed DPRK.”

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 02, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 02, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 02, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US-ROK Forum on DPRK 2. Kofi Annan’s ROK Visit 3. Korean Unification Conference 4. Kaesong Industrial Complex 5. DPRK Abduction Issue 6. DPRK in State Rankings 7. DPRK-Russia Athletic Cooperation 8. Taiwan-Pacific Rim Relations 9. Japan Iraq Deployment […]

APSNet for 20060501

APSNet for 20060501 Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Bi-weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia. Thursday 1 May 2006 Leaked Email Shows Hand of Canberra in Honiara Timor’s Rocky Road Political Elites ‘Prolonging’ Sulawesi Sectarian Conflict Separatism in Papua a Racist Aim: Vanstone NATO Mulls Australian Alliance Goff Welcomes Call for US […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 01, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 01, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 01, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US, Japan on Six Party Talks 2. US on DPRK Terrorism Funding 3. US Espionage in DPRK 4. Kim Jong-nam Telephone Interceptions 5. DPRK Abduction Issue 6. Japanese DPRK Sanctions Bill 7. Norwegian DPRK Human Rights Conference 8. […]