The East Timor Truth Commission Report shines Gerry van Klinken, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) Contents Introduction Essay Related links Nautilus invites your response Introduction Australian historian and editor of Inside Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken, writes that the light from the 2000 page Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth […]
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Rethinking China: Australia and the World
Paul Monk, Austral Policy Forum 05-01A 3 November 2005
Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard-Liners
Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard-Liners 7 July 2005 By Selig S. Harrison I. Introduction Selig S. Harrison, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame“, wrote: “For now the hard-liners are in charge in Pyongyang. Pending normalized relations, North Korea is unlikely to reduce its nuclear […]
DPRK Trip Report May 10th, 2005
I.Introduction Selig Harrison, author of Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement and director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy, writes: “Once again, Pyongyang is offering to negotiate a freeze that would prevent further reprocessing, as it did in June, 1994, leading to the Agreed Framework, and as it […]
JASON’s Tactical Lessons
CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Essay by Michael LeviIII. Nautilus Invites Your Responses I. Introduction Michael A. Levi, Director of the Strategic Security Project at the Federation of American Scientists, asserts that today we again find the Bush Administration speaking loosely of tactical uses for nuclear weapons, in Iraq or in future contingencies. The enormous power […]
North Korea’s Political Problem
“North Korea’s Political Problem: The Regime Survival Strategy” By Young Whan Kihl I. Introduction The following essay was originally prepared for the conference on “Korea In The 21st Century: In Search for Peace, Unification and Prosperity,” held at Chongju University, ROK, June 2-3, 1997, and appeared in the summer 1997 issue of “The Economics […]