Informal Notes from SFRC March 2, 2004 Hearing: The North Korean Nuclear Calculus: Beyond the Six Power Talks

Author:  Karin Lee <karin@fcnl.org> Date:  20-Mar-2004 06:19:57   East Asia Policy Education Project FCNL Education Fund Korea Update 245 Second Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795 phone: (202) 547-6000 ext. 110  fax: (202) 547-6019 email: Karin@fcnl.org    web site: www.fcnl.org ____________________________________________________________ Better late than never. . . Informal notes from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing “The […]

Chosun Ilbo: Pyongyang Loosens Border Controls (2004.03.15)

Author:  Karin Lee <karin@fcnl.org> Date:  17-Mar-2004 12:50:25 Pyongyang Loosens Border Controls  (2004.03.15)   According to ethnic Korean-Chinese regional officials in Yanbian province on Monday, the North Korean government has eased requirements for North Koreans visiting China, leading to an increase in the number of North Korean crossing the border to visit China. After the North […]

Staff Trip Report [Keith Luse and Frank Jannuzi] North Korea: Status Report on Nuclear Program, Humanitarian Issues, and Economic Reforms

Author:  Karin Lee <karin@fcnl.org> Date:  03-Mar-2004 06:55:18   East Asia Policy Education Project FCNL Education Fund Korea Update 245 Second Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795 phone: (202) 547-6000 ext. 110  fax: (202) 547-6019 email: Karin@fcnl.org    web site: www.fcnl.org ____________________________________________________________ Please click on the following link for the report submitted by Keith Luse and Frank Jannuzi, […]

March 2: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing: The North Korean Nuclear Calculus: Beyond the Six Power Talks

Author: Karin Lee <Karin@fcnl.org> Date: 25-Feb-2004 06:19:26   East Asia Policy Education Project FCNL Education Fund Korea Update 245 Second Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795 phone: (202) 547-6000 ext. 110  fax: (202) 547-6019 email: Karin@fcnl.org    web site: www.fcnl.org   http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2004/hrg040302p.html The North Korean Nuclear Calculus: Beyond the Six Power Talks ——————————————————————————– HEARING before the COMMITTEE […]

North Korean Nuclear Weapons: How soon an Arsenal?

Nuclear Weapons The US has been concerned about North Korea’s desire for nuclear weapons and has assessed since the early 1990s that the North has one or possibly two weapons using plutonium it produced prior to 1992. In 1994, P’yongyang halted production of additional plutonium under the terms of the US-DPRK Agreed Framework. We have […]

The North Korea Deadlock: A Report from the Region

Jack Pritchard, former Bush administration special envoy for negotiations with the DPRK, co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) and the Asia Society Washington Center, and held at Brookings, January 15, 2004. CHARLES L. “JACK” PRITCHARD: Now, before I give you some of my impressions, let me just set a […]

Humanitarian: Agency Matrix

AGENCY WHAT SECTOR1 WHERE FUNDING SOURCES2 Contact Details Adventist Development Relief Association (ADRA), Switzerland Non-Food Items Health & Nutrition Food Baby homes, Orphanages and paediatric Hospital/Ward in North and South Hwanghae, Kaesong, Nampo, Pyongyang, Kangwon and South Pyongan. Church organizations Germany Private Donation Switzerland Mr. Marcel Wagner Country Director T: +8502-3817952 F: +8502-3817952 adrakor@public2.east.net.cn Campus […]

Senator Biden’s Congressional Record comments on North Korea — on the occassion of introducing S. Res 256

Author:  Stephen Winn Linton <linton@eugenebell.org> Date:  06-Nov-2003 16:33:44 Dear Karin,   Thanks for sending this and keep up the good work!   Linton —– Original Message —– From: Karin Lee To: dprkcoordcom@nautilus.org Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:32 AM Subject: Senator Biden’s Congressional Record comments on North Korea — on the occassion of introducing S. […]

Military Construction Appropriations and Relocation of U.S. Forces in Korea

Author:  Karin Lee <karin@fcnl.org> Date:  05-Nov-2003 10:40:19   Relevant sections of the Conference Report, as printed in the November 4 Congressional Record, below     Congressional Record: November 4, 2003 (House)] [Page H10253-H10281] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:cr04no03-100]   CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2559, MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2004 Mr. […]

The Hidden Gulag

Author:  Lee Wheeler <wheeler@southwind.net> Date:  30-Oct-2003 07:14:53   Karin,   Thanks for the interesting and scary report.  I read one of the refugees’ book, Aquariums of Pyongyang while in South Korea last month and I could easily that being true in North Korea.  I could almost sense the presence of some of those gulags in […]