Selig S. Harrison, Director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and author of Korean Endgame, writes, “Pyongyang is ready to rule out the development of additional nuclear weapons in future negotiations, but when, and whether, it will give up its existing arsenal depends on how relations with Washington evolve… Faced with this new hard line, the United States should choose between two approaches, benign neglect and limiting the North’s arsenal to four or five weapons.”
Archives
NAPSNet Daily Report 24 February, 2009
- 1. DPRK Missile Program
- 2. DPRK Leadership
- 3. Japan-ROK-US on DRPK
- 4. Inter-Korean Relations
- 5. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation
- 6. US-DPRK Relations
- 7. ROK Military
- 8. ROK Pirate Abductees
- 9. ROK Economy
- 10. ROK Energy Supply
- 11. ROK Government
- 12. ROK-Japan Economic Cooperation
- 13. Japan in Afghanistan
- 14. PRC Energy
- 15. PRC Environment
- 16. PRC Climate Change
- 17. PRC Mining Accident
- 18. PRC Food Safety
- 19. PRC Human Rights
- 20. Sino-US Trade Relations
- 21. PRC Earthquake Reconstruction
- 22. PRC Earthquake
- 23. Sino-Vietnam Relations
- 24. Sino-Finland Military Cooperation
- 25. Sino-Thailand Military Cooperation
NAPSNet Daily Report 23 February, 2009
- 1. DPRK Missile Program
- 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. DPRK Military
- 4. DPRK Leadership
- 5. Six-Party Talks
- 6. DPRK-UN Relations
- 7. Inter-Korean Relations
- 8. US on Inter-Korean Relations
- 9. US Military in ROK
- 10. ROK Peacekeeping
- 11. ROK Anti-Piracy Dispatch
- 12. ROK Energy
- 13. ROK Environment
- 14. ROK Politics
- 15. Sino-ROK Relations
- 16. Sino-ROK Economic Relations
- 17. ROK-Japan Territorial Dispute
- 18. Japan SDF Anti-Piracy Operations
- 19. Japanese Politics
- 20. Japanese Whaling
- 21. Sino-US Relations
- 22. US-PRC Climate Change
- 23. Sino-Russian Relations
- 24. PRC Human Rights
- 25. PRC Tibet Issue
NAPSNet Daily Report 20 February, 2009
- 1. Peace and Security Working Group Meeting
- 2. DPRK-US Relations
- 3. US on DPRK Leadership
- 4. DPRK Leadership
- 5. Inter-Korean Relations
- 6. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation
- 7. Sino-DPRK Relations
- 8. DPRK Food Supply
- 9. ROK Anti-Piracy Operations
- 10. ROK-EU Trade Relations
- 11. Japan-Taiwan Relations
- 12. Japan Politics
- 13. Japan AIDS Issue
- 14. US, Japan, PRC Energy Cooperation
- 15. Sino-Russian Relations
- 16. Sino-US Environmental Cooperation
- 17. Sino-US Military Relations
- 18. Cross Strait Relations
- 19. US and Cross Strait Relations
- 20. PRC Religious Freedom
- 21. PRC Energy
Policy Forum 09-014: How Far Will the Seoul-Pyongyang Aggravation Go?
Alexander Vorontsov, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, writes, “there are grounds to believe that Seoul has opted for a DPRK strategy that in a number of basic features repeats the ‘regime change’ policy towards North Korea that was pursued in the first six years of George W. Bush administration.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 19 February, 2009
- 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. ROK on DPRK Missile Program
- 3. DPRK Leadership
- 4. Inter-Korean Relations
- 5. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 6. DPRK on US-ROK War Drill
- 7. Russo-DPRK Relations
- 8. Japanese Politics
- 9. Japan UNSC Role
- 10. Japan Environment
- 11. Russo-Japanese Energy Trade
- 12. Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
- 13. US on PRC Nuclear Program
- 14. Sino-US Military Cooperation
- 15. Sino-US Detainee Rendition
- 16. PRC Foreign Relations
- 17. PRC Security
- 18. PRC Employment
- 19. PRC Environment
- 20. Taiwan Economy
- 21. PRC Space Program
NAPSNet Daily Report 18 February, 2009
- 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. DPRK Missile Program
- 4. ROK on DPRK Missile Program
- 5. Inter-Korean Relations
- 6. PRC on Inter-Korean Relations
- 7. US on DPRK-Japan Relations
- 8. DPRK Leadership
- 9. DPRK Food Supply
- 10. DPRK-UK Education Exchanges
- 11. ROK Defense
- 12. ROK Government
- 13. ROK-Russian Energy Trade
- 14. US on Japan SDF Peacekeeping Operations
- 15. US-Japan Security Alliance
- 16. Japan-US Joint Drill
- 17. Japan-US Relations
- 18. Japan Politics
- 19. Russo-Japanese Relations
- 20. Sino-Russian Energy Cooperation
- 21. US and Cross Strait Relations
- 22. Sino-US Relations
- 23. Sino-Venezuelan Trade Relations
- 24. PRC Tibet Issue
- 25. PRC Climate Change
- 26. PRC Environment
- 27. PRC AIDS Issue
A New US Diplomatic Strategy toward North Korea
The Atlantic Council of the United States, non-partisan network of leaders who aim to promote constructive U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs, published this report “of its three-year project on U.S. policy toward North Korea. This report makes clear that unless President Obama adopts a new strategy of seeking a comprehensive settlement in Korea, the U.S. is unlikely to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear program.”
Policy Forum 09-012: The Somalia Multilateral Anti- Piracy Approach: Some Caveats
Mark J. Valencia, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), and Nazery Khalid, Senior Fellow at MIMA, write, “Rather than extend the Somali intervention ‘lessons’ to Southeast Asia, the international community should extend to the GOA and Somalian waters the lessons from Southeast Asia, i.e. assistance to enhance political and social stability, economic development, and anti-piracy technology and training with the goal of indigenous control of the anti-piracy response.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 16 February, 2009
- 1. US, ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. DPRK Missile Program
- 3. US-DPRK Relations
- 4. Inter-Korean Naval Clashes
- 5. Inter-Korea Relations
- 6. DPRK Population
- 7. ROK Missile Defense
- 8. ROK on Somali Piracy
- 9. ROK Environment
- 10. US-Japanese Relations
- 11. US on PRC Human Rights
- 12. Cross-Strait Relations
- 13. Sino-Pakistani Relations
- 14. Sino-African Relations
- 15. PRC Military