Policy Forum 03-44A: The North Korean Nuclear Challenge And American Interests: Getting The Priorities Right

The paper below is by Avery Goldstein, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Goldstein argues that while an agreement guaranteeing a “nuclear-free” North Korea would be desirable for the United States, there remain other strategic outcomes that fall short of that goal, but may nonetheless prove advantageous to US interests in reducing the risk of the spread of nuclear materials.

NAPSNet Daily Report 04 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US on New Korean Armistice
2. ROK on KEDO Project Suspension
3. US DPRK Defector on Kim Jong-il
4. PRC on DPRK Diplomacy
5. Japan Domestic Politics
6. US-PRC Relations
7. PRC-ROK on DPRK Nuclear Crisis
8. DPRK-ROK Economic Cooperation
9. DPRK Japanese Racial Slur
II. Japan 1. Japan Iraq Troop Deployment
2. Japanese Defense Chief on the Future SDF
3. Hibakusha’s Protest on Bush’s Tour
4. Japan’s Nuclear Power Reactor
5. US Bases in Japan
6. Japanese Imperial Army’s Chemical Weapons in the PRC
7. Bin Laden’s Threat to Japan
III. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC on BOAO Forum
2. ROK’s Domestic Politics
3. PRC-DPRK Relations
4. US-DPRK Relations on DPRK Nuke Issue
5. ROK on DPRK Nuke Talks
6. PRC on DPRK Issue
7. Japan Relations with ROK and DPRK
8. Russia-Ukrainian Relations
IV. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #140

NAPSNet Daily Report 27 October, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Third Missile Test Fire?
2. US Congress DPRK Visit Delay
3. DPRK on US Nuclear Proposal
4. Top DPRK US Defection
5. DPRK Domestic Politics
6. US-PRC Economic Relations
7. Cross-Straits Relations
8. PRC-Australia Relations
9. Japan Domestic Politics
10. Japan-PRC Russia Energy Competition
11. ROK Anti-US Activism
12. DPRK-PRC Economic Trade
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Cancels All Remaining DPRK Tours
2. DPRK-US Relations
3. Former DPRK Defector returned to DPRK Re-entered ROK
4. ROK Regards DPRK’s Reactions as A Nod on U.S. Proposal
5. Former Secretary of DPRK’s Ruling Worker’s Party US Visit
6. Six-Way Talks Are Likely to Begin Soon
7. DPRK’s Point Man for DPRK-ROK Affairs died of Traffic Accident
8. DPRK Fired Short-Range Missile Again
III. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK-US Relations on Nuke Issue
2. PRC-DPRK Relations
3. PRC-Japan Relations
4. PRC-US Relations
5. US President on APEC
6. PRC President Press Conference after APEC
7. Russia-Ukraine Relations