- I. NAPSNet
- 1. DPRK Missile Test
- 2. ROK on DPRK Missile Test
- 3. DPRK Nuclear Issue
- 4. DPRK Terror List Status
- 5. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 6. Trilaterial Coordination and Oversight Group
- 7. Inter-Korean Relations
- 8. Inter-Korean Maritime Border
- 9. ROK on PSI Role
- 10. Japan Economy
- 11. Cross Strait Relations
- 12. Uighur Detainee Issue
- 13. PRC Environment
- 14. PRC Energy Supply
- 15. PRC Public Health
- 16. Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Archives
NAPSNet Daily Report 9 October, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. US on DPRK Missile Test
- 3. ROK on DPRK Missile Test
- 4. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 5. US-DPRK Relations
- 6. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 7. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 8. Inter-Korean Relations
- 9. DPRK on US-ROK Security Alliance
- 10. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 11. UN on DPRK Human Rights
- 12. ROK Electoral Rights
- 13. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission
- 14. Japan-Taiwan Relations
- 15. Japan – Philippine Free Trade
- 16. Russo-Japanese Relations
- 17. Cross Strait Relations
- 18. Sino-Russian Energy Trade
- 19. PRC on Nobel Peace Prize
- 20. PRC Economy
- 21. PRC Public Health
- 22. Shanghai Environmental Pollution
- 23. PRC Education
- 24. Uighur Detainee Issue
The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis
Dick K. Nanto, Specialist in Industry and Trade Foreign Affairs in the Defense, and Trade Division, and Emma Chanlett-Avery, Analyst in Asian Affairs Foreign Affairs in the Defense, and Trade Division, produced this report for the Congressional Research Service. The report presents an overview of the DPRK economy and notes recent changes in the economy, information on DPRK economic reforms, and profiles the country’s relationship with each of its major trade partners.
NAPSNet Daily Report 8 October, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. DPRK Missile Test
- 2. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 5. Inter-Korean Relations
- 6. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation
- 7. ROK Food Aid to the DPRK
- 8. DPRK Economy
- 9. DPRK Leadership
- 10. DPRK Food Supply
- 11. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 12. ROK Anti-Piracy Operations
- 13. Japan Politics
- 14. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission
- 15. Yasukuni Shrine Issue
- 16. Sino-Japanese Relations
- 17. US Arms Sales to Taiwan
- 18. Cross Strait Relations
- 19. PRC Environment and Public Health
- 20. PRC AIDS Issue
Policy Forum 08-076: After Kim Jong-il
Peter M. Beck, Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., writes, “there is a much greater likelihood that the North will come to resemble Burma rather than South Korea or China. A collective leadership system dominated by the military will likely emerge. However, it could be months or even years before the North’s elites sort out who is in and who is out of the new ruling junta. The military will clearly be in the driver’s seat. The only question is whether it will use a member of the Kim Royal Family as a hood ornament.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 7 October, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. US-DPRK Military Talks
- 2. DPRK on Nuclear Program
- 3. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 5. US Food Aid to the DPRK
- 6. Russo-DPRK Rail Link
- 7. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 8. US Arms Sales to the ROK
- 9. US-ROK Military Cooperation
- 10. ROK-Japan Territorial Dispute
- 11. Japan Politics
- 12. Japan-India Relations
- 13. Japan SDF Afghanistan Role
- 14. Japan SDF Anti-Piracy Role
- 15. Japan-Mongolia Energy Trade
- 16. Sino-Indian Territorial Dispute
- 17. US Arms Sales to Taiwan
- 18. PRC Environment
- 19. PRC Finance
- 20. PRC Land Rights
NAPSNet Daily Report 6 October, 2008
- I. Napsnet
- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. US, PRC on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. DPRK Leadership
- 4. DPRK Military Procurements
- 5. DPRK Arms Sales
- 6. US Perceptions of DPRK
- 7. DPRK Defectors
- 8. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation
- 9. Alleged DPRK Counterfeiting
- 10. ROK Military
- 11. ROK Historical Disputes
- 12. ROK, Japan, PRC Economic Cooperation
- 13. Japanese Military Procurements
- 14. Japanese Politics
- 15. US Arms Sales for Taiwan
- 16. PRC Food Safety
NAPSNet Daily Report 3 October, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. Inter-Korean Military Talks
- 3. Inter-Korean Relations
- 4. DPRK Missile Systems
- 5. ROK-Japan Territorial Dispute
- 6. ROK-Japan Relations
- 7. ROK, Japan, PRC Economic Cooperation
- 8. US-Japan Relations
- 9. Japan Role in Iraq
- 10. Japan Politics
- 11. Japan SDF Leak
- 12. Russo-Japanese Relations
- 13. Sino-Indian Trade Relations
- 14. PRC Environment
- 15. PRC AIDS Issue
- 16. PRC Public Health
- 17. PRC Internet Control
NAPSNet Daily Report 2 October, 2008
- I. NAPSNET
- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. Inter-Korean Relations
- 4. ROK Policy Toward the DPRK
- 5. ROK Abductees
- 6. DPRK Population
- 7. ROK Military
- 8. US, ROK Export Controls
- 9. ROK Economy
- 10. Sino-ROK Maritime Dispute
- 11. Japan Politics
- 12. Japan Economy
- 13. Sino-US Military Relations
- 14. Cross Strait Relations
- 15. PRC National Day
- 16. PRC Public Health
- 17. PRC Civil Society
- 18. Russian Far East Economic Growth
Dealing with North Korea Under Uncertain Leadership October 1st, 2008
I. Introduction Chung-in Moon, Professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul and special delegate to both inter-Korean summits, writes, “Rather than risking all of the negotiating gains made with North Korea thus far by provocative speculation, the international community should resume the calm, prudent and incremental approach it has more recently adopted in […]