NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 15, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 15, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 15, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Leadership 2. US on DPRK Counterfeiting 3. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 4. DPRK-Japanese Relations 5. US-Japan Missile Defense Cooperation 6. Japan on DPRK Human Rights Conference 7. Japan on UNSC Reform 8. US on UNSG Candidates 9. PRC […]

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 14, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 14, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 14, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. PRC on Six Party Talks 2. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 3. Inter-Korean Olympic Team 4. ROK on DPRK Counterfeiting 5. US on DPRK-US Relations 6. ROK-US Trade Deal 7. USFK Reorganization 8. ROK Candidate for UNSG 9. Japan on […]

U.S. Assistance to North Korea: Fact Sheet

Mark Manyin, Specialist in Asian Affairs at the Congressional Research Service, prepared this report on US aid to the DPRK. The report details food aid, KEDO assistance, and medical aid over the last 10 years. The report also summarizes changes in World Food Program (WFP) operations, the termination of the KEDO project, and the impact of the North Korean Human Rights Act on US assistance to the DPRK.

APSNet for 20060213

APSNet for 20060213 Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Monday 13 February 2006 Bi-weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia. PM: Troops To Stay In Iraq US Alliance Overlooks Asia Investigation Launched Into Faulty Defence Equipment Spies In Dark On Kickbacks: PM CSIRO Muzzles Climate Scientists Special Report: Volcker Inquiry, Cole Inquiry And […]

APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 13, 2006

  1. PM: Troops To Stay In Iraq,
    AAP, SMH February 2006-02-12

    Australian troops could remain in Iraq beyond the expected withdrawal of the Japanese engineers they were sent to protect, Prime Minister John Howard says. Australia’s 460-member Al Muthanna Task Group is in southern Iraq protecting the Japanese contingent, thought to be returning home in May.

  2. US Alliance Overlooks Asia,
    Geoffrey Barker, AFR*, 2006-02-13

    Keeping troops in Iraq would run counter to Australia’s long-term interests. The next US administration is unlikely to embrace the neo-conservative Bush doctrines, and the next Australian government will find itself increasingly having to balance relations with the US, China and Japan. Pressing on in Iraq is no way to start that process.

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  3. Investigation Launched Into Faulty Defence Equipment,
    Michael McKinnon and Cameron Stewart, Australian, 2006-02-13

    An investigation has been launched into the Defence Department unit charged with equipping Australian soldiers amid allegations of defective equipment and conflicts of interest. Internal Defence documents, obtained under FOI laws, revealed a range of problems.

  4. Spies In Dark On Kickbacks: PM,
    Cath Hart, Australian, 2006-02-13

    The Prime Minister revealed the Office of National Assessments (ONA) was in the dark on the kickbacks. ONA, which provides the Government with analysis of international developments based on intelligence, diplomatic reporting and public material, did not make available any reports about AWB’s dealings with Saddam, Mr Howard said.

  5. CSIRO Muzzles Climate Scientists,
    Tracy Ong, Australian, 2006-02-13

    Three of the CSIRO‘s top climate change experts were repeatedly gagged from talking about cutting greenhouse emissions by an increasingly censorious organisation worried about continued government funding.

  6. Briefing note: Volcker Inquiry, Cole Inquiry And The Oil-For Food Program

    The UN Oil-For-Food Program: Who Is Guilty?, Brian Urquhart, New York Review Of Books* 53:2,2006-02-09
    The Volcker report is certainly the most detailed and searching inquiry every undertaken. In the Inquiry Committee’s words, “This very large and very complex Program accomplished many vital roles in Iraq – Responsibility for what went wrong with the Program cannot be laid exclusively at the door of the Secretariat. Members of the Security Council must shoulder their share of the blame in providing uneven and wavering direction in the implementation of the program.”

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  7. Briefing note: New Zealand’s Role in International Electronic Surveillance

    Spies Are Our Hidden Heroes, Warren Tucker, The Dominion Post, 2006-01-31 New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau director Warren Tucker defends the organisation after a top-secret intelligence report from 20 years ago showed New Zealand had been spying on friendly countries.

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 13, 2006

NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 13, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 13, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. Sanctions Against DPRK 3. DPRK on Sanctions Against DPRK 4. Japan on Sanctions Against DPRK 5. DPRK Counterfeiting 6. DPRK Policy Shift 7. Inter-Korean Sports 8. Kim Dae-jung’s Trip to DPRK 9. […]

Policy Forum 06-16A: Kim Jong Il’s Southern Tour: Beijing Consensus with a North Korean Twist?

Wonhyuk Lim, a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow at the Korea Development Institute (KDI), and Korea National Strategy Institute (KNSI), writes, “After a decade of economic crisis, only the infusion of external capital would provide a substantive solution to the capital-labor coordination problem and put economic growth on a more stable trajectory… After his Southern Tour, Kim Jong Il should have a much better idea about how to develop an economic model suited to North Korea’s specific conditions.”

Nuclear tests in French Polynesia

In 2005 French Polynesia established an inquiry into the health and environmental impacts of the 46 atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1974. The Hirshon Commission report was tabled on 9 February 2006.

Policy Forum 06-11A: The East Timor Truth Commission Report Shines

Gerry van Klinken, Australian historian and editor of Inside Indonesia, writes “The denial of East Timor’s right to self-determination – always acknowledged by the UN – was an international project, and it’s only fair the world should make amends. This is the ‘to do’ list: contribute the relevant archives to East Timor, cough up (from the profits of arms sales!) for victim compensation, table the CAVR report publicly (this one aimed at Indonesian school textbooks), and help prosecute all those responsible.”