Katharine H.S. Moon, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate Fellow at the Asia Society in New York, writes, “The US government has kept a long arm’s distance from the musical overtures between Pyongyang and the Philharmonic, but it also has missed a unique opportunity to assert one of the best examples of its “soft power” not only to North Korea but to the rest of the world.”
Archives
NAPSNet Daily Report 20 March, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. US-DPRK Joint Recovery Operations
- 3. DPRK Refugees
- 4. Inter-Korean Economic Relations
- 5. DPRK Ambassador to the UN
- 6. ROK Dual Use Export Controls
- 7. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 8. Yasukuni Shrine Issue
- 9. Sino-Japanese Relations
- 10. Tibet Unrest
- 11. Cross Strait Relations
- 12. Sino-Russian Relations
- 13. Sino-US Relations
- 14. PRC Bird Flu
NAPSNet Daily Report 19 March, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
- 1. Six Party Talks
- 2. ROK on Aid to the DPRK
- 3. Inter-Korean Relations
- 4. DPRK African Diplomacy
- 5. DPRK-PRC Cultural Exchange
- 6. ROK Missile Defense Program
- 7. ROK Military
- 8. US-ROK Security Alliance
- 9. US-ROK Trade Relations
- 10. US-Japan Relations
- 11. Japan Energy Supply
- 12. Cross Strait Relations
- 13. Tibet Unrest
- 14. US-PRC Trade Relations
- 15. US-PRC Energy Cooperation
Policy Forum 08-022: The Philippines’ Spratly “Bungle”: Blessing In Disguise?
Mark J. Valencia, Maritime Policy Analyst in Kaneohe, Hawaii and a Nautilus Institute Senior Associate, writes, “The publication of an article critical of the Philippine government’s agreements with China in 2004 and with China and Vietnam in 2005 to undertake joint seismic surveys in the South China Sea has unleashed a fusillade of allegations that have rocked the government of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo… in approving this arrangement, the Philippine government undermined its political relations within ASEAN and its own legal claims to islands, waters and continental shelf in the South China Sea.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 18 March, 2008
- I. NAPSNet
NAPSNet Daily Report 17 March, 2008
- I. Napsnet
- 1. US-DPRK Talks
- 2. Japan-DPRK Relations
- 3. Inter-Korean Relations
- 4. Inter-Korean Tourism
- 5. ROK-Australia-NZ Relations
- 6. US-ROK Military Relations
- 7. Blair in Japan for Climate Talks
- 8. PRC-Japan Relations
- 9. PRC-Russia Military Hotline
- 10. Tibetan Unrest
- 11. Taiwan Politics
- 12. PRC Internet
- 13. PRC Environment
- 14. EU on US-PRC Emissions
NAPSNet Daily Report 14 March, 2008
- I. Napsnet
- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. ROK on Six Party Deadlock
- 3. USFK on DPRK Nuclear Proliferation
- 4. DPRK Human Rights
- 5. ROK on New Inter-Korean Industrial Complex
- 6. DPRK Tourism
- 7. ROK Oil Spill
- 8. Lee Visit to US, Japan
- 9. ROK-PRC Relations
- 10. Japan-PRC Relations
- 11. Japan Economy
- 12. Comfort Women Issue
- 13. Taiwan Politics
- 14. PRC Pollution
- 15. Protest for Tibet
- 16. PRC on US Human Rights
- 17. Russia on US Human Rights
- 18. Russia on Projects Under Kyoto
- 19. US-Russia Talks on Missile Defense
- 20. Russia-PRC Relations
Policy Forum 08-021: North Korea Now: Will the Clock Be Turned Back?
Georgy Toloraya, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute, writes, “If the hard-line approach persists on both sides, the future is predictable. It would likely be a repetition of the past: after a series of mutual steps increasing tensions and driving relations into yet another dead-end, the opponents (probably with a changed administration on the U.S. side) will get back to discussing the same issues from square one, again discovering there is no alternative to engagement and small-step tactics leading to gradual solutions, one by one.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 12 March, 2008
- I. Napsnet
- 1. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. US-ROK Relations
- 3. ROK Military
- 4. Japan on Kyoto Protocol
- 5. Japan Space Program
- 6. Japan Whaling Issue
- 7. UNICEF on Japan Child Pornography Laws
- 8. Russia-India Military Deal
- 9. Russia on WTO
- 10. US on Russia Human Rights
- 11. US on PRC Military
- 12. PRC on Protest in Tibet
- 13. PRC Inflation
- 14. Avian Flu
NAPSNet Daily Report 11 March, 2008
- I. Napsnet
- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 3. ROK Policy Toward DPRK
- 4. Inter-Korean Relations
- 5. DPRK Abductions of Japanese
- 6. ROK Military
- 7. US Military in ROK
- 8. US-ROK Relations
- 9. ROK Energy Procurement
- 10. Sino-Japanese Relations
- 11. Cross Strait Relations
- 12. PRC Government Organization