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NAPSNet Daily Report 22 January, 2009

NAPSNet Daily Report 21 January, 2009

Assistance to North Korea

Mark E. Manyin, Specialist in Asian Affairs at the Congressional Research Service, and Mary Beth Nikitin, Analyst in Nonproliferation at the Congressional Research Service, describe US assistance to North Korea including energy, food, and other forms of aid. This report looks at the changes in the amount of this aid as well as the issues for the US congress on the provision of this assistance.

NAPSNet Daily Report 20 January, 2009

Policy Forum 09-005: North Korea: 20 Years of Solitude

John Delury, Director of the China Boom Project and Associate Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, writes, “The solution to the myriad problems created by North Korea’s long isolation is, quite simply, to end the isolation. The antidote to North Korea’s evasive hostility, always linked to a demand for “face,” is full engagement.”

Read a discussion of this article here.

NAPSNet Daily Report 16 January, 2009

Policy Forum 09-004: Obama’s Options on North Korea

Tong Kim, a visiting professor at the Graduate University of North Korean Studies, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), notes recommendations for the Obama administration in dealing with the DPRK including that it, “tell the North Korean leadership that a meeting with President Obama is possible when the United States and its allies are convinced that the North truly intends to abandon its nuclear weapons even before complete denuclearization. To prove its intentions, the North must take positive but irreversible steps.”

Read a discussion of this article here.

NAPSNet Daily Report 15 January, 2009