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Selig S. Harrision, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame”, writes “during his remaining two years in office, President Roh could seek to make the alliance more compatible with his North Korea policies in three ways. First, he could pursue mutual North-South force reductions in bilateral discussions with Pyongyang, resisting pressures from the Pentagon and his own military-industrial complex. Second, he could press for the more ‘open and equal’ alliance discussed by Ruediger Frank in the January Korea Policy Review. Finally, he could step up efforts to promote a trilateral peace treaty ending the Korean War.”

Discussion of “China Goes West” Policy Forum Online 06-24A: April 5th, 2006 “Discussion of ‘China Goes West’”   by Glyn Ford (MEP) Copyright (c) 2006 Nautilus of America/The Nautilus Institute CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Comments on Essay by Glyn Ford (MEP) Comments by Kay Möller Response by Glyn Ford (MEP) III. Nautilus invites your responses […]

Richard Tanter, Acting Director of Nautilus Institute at RMIT, and coordinator of the Austral Peace and Security Project https://nautilus.org/~rmit/index.html, writes “The Indian Ocean MSDF deployments, which, like the ASDF deployment, are set to continue after the withdrawal of ground troops from Iraq, represent a crucial advance in the process of Heisei militarization.”

Glyn Ford, member of the European Parliament representing South West England, writes “European intervention to pressure Taiwan to maintain the cross strait status quo has been solicited by China. We should intervene to since instability in China helps no-one.”

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Aaron L. Friedberg, an East Asian expert who served as Vice President Dick Cheney’s deputy national security adviser from 2003 to 2005, says North Korea has boycotted new talks on ending its nuclear arms program because of the U.S. program of cracking down on North Korean counterfeiting and other illicit activities. But Friedberg says such pressure is the only way to hope for a breakthrough.

Stephen Noerper, head of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Relief Fund, writes, “State sovereignty remains the paramount consideration in North East Asia relations. The debate centres on the necessary preconditions, size and mandates for institutions. Gaps could be filled by new institutions, but there is limited scope for honest brokers. There are opportunities for progress in non-traditional security issues, including on disease, natural disaster and crime.”

Yeo Lay Hwee, Executive Director and Senior Research Fellow at SIIA, and Lim Tai Wei, Research Associate at SIIA, analyze Condoleezza Rice’s statement that “China could become a ‘negative force’ in the Asia-Pacific region” and the impact of efforts to find a “common position on how to engage the Asian economic powerhouse” between the US, Japan, and Australia.

Policy Forum Online 06-19A: March 9th, 2006 “Strategic Flexibility of U.S. Forces in Korea”   Essay by Lee Chul-kee CONTENTS I. Introduction  II. Essay by Lee Chul-kee  III. Nautilus invites your responses   I. Introduction   Lee Chul-kee, a professor in international relations at the Dongguk University, writes, “We must build a cooperative multilateral security […]

Lee Chul-kee, a professor in international relations at the Dongguk University, writes, “We must build a cooperative multilateral security system for Northeast Asia, instead of a bilateral alliance system. Peace and reunification of Korean peninsula will be possible only when Northeast Asian order becomes multilateral, balanced and cooperative.”

Emanuel Pastreich, visiting scholar at the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania and a Japan Focus associate, writes, “The United States is losing its economic and cultural authority through the lethal mixture of ballooning trade deficits and torture scandals. The danger is that a classic military reflex will be one of the few tools left in the chest at a time when the U.S. needs a far more varied and sophisticated set of responses to negotiate successfully the path ahead.”

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