AUSTRALIA EXPANDING OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN AS IT WINDS DOWN OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, TANTER SAYS In an interview with ABC radio Australia, Richard Tanter, Director of the Nautilus Institute’s Melbourne Office, discussed the visit of Stephen Smith, Australia’s foreign minister to the US and Japan, noting, “I think in fact they are expanding the commitment in […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report 21 January, 2008
Policy Forum 08-006: The Next Nuclear Agreement with North Korea: Prospects and Pitfalls
David C. Kang, Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, writes, Although the past year has seen substantial progress in capping and ultimately eliminating North Koreas nuclear weapons program, there remain many obstacles that could derail the progress made so far, and slow or even halt continued improvement in relations. The reciprocal actions laid out in the February 13, 2007 agreement are genuinely the first step in a long process for all countries involved in the negotiations, and sustained U.S. attention at the policymaking, executive, and legislative levels will be critical for the process to continue in a manner which enhances U.S. interests.
NAPSNet Daily Report 18 January, 2008
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- 1. DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. Inter-Korean Relations
- 3. ROK Government Reorganization
- 4. Alledged DPRK-Syria Nuclear Cooperation
- 5. ROK-PRC Relations
- 6. ROK-Japan Relations
- 7. ROK Space Program
- 8. Japanese Security Policy
- 9. Japan Politics
- 10. Sino-Japanese Relations
- 11. Cross Strait Relations
- 12. US-PRC Trade Relations
- 13. Vietnam-PRC Relations
- 14. PRC Environment
Policy Forum 08-005: Japan as a Plutonium Superpower
Gavan McCormack, emeritus professor of Australian National University, a coordinator of Japan Focus, and author of the recently published Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, writes, “The final question is this: is Japan’s drive to become a nuclear super-state compatible with its “Client State” role? The US has always insisted that Japan not be a nuclear weapons state, but, given a forthcoming privileged position within the GNEP, it stands to become a de facto nuclear superpower anyway. The Bush administration may be confident that it has locked Japan in to Client State subordination for the foreseeable future, but a considerable potential ambiguity opens up.”
NAPSNet Daily Report 17 January, 2008
NAPSNet Daily Report 16 January, 2008
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- 1. Inter-Korean Relations
- 2. ROK Policy Toward DPRK
- 3. ROK Nuclear Program
- 4. ROK-US Relations
- 5. US-ROK Trade Relations
- 6. ROK-PRC Relations
- 7. ROK-Japan Relations
- 8. Japan Politics
- 9. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission
- 10. Sino-Indian Nuclear Cooperation
- 11. US-PRC Military Relations
- 12. Cross Strait Relations
- 13. PRC Land Use
NAPSNet Daily Report 15 January, 2008
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- 1. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
- 2. Inter-Korean Relations
- 3. DPRK Heavy Fuel Oil
- 4. DPRK Economy
- 5. Sino-DPRK Relations
- 6. Japan Missile Defense Program
- 7. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission
- 8. US-PRC Military Relations
- 9. Hong Kong Government
- 10. Sino-Indian Relations
- 11. PRC Land Use
- 12. PRC Migrant Workers
NAPSNet Daily Report 14 January, 2008
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Policy Forum 08-004: Looking Back and Looking Forward: North Korea, Northeast Asia and the ROK-U.S. Alliance
Hyeong Jung Park, CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes, “Whether it is successful or not, the denuclearization process will give birth to a new reality both on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, and the challenges for both countries will be how to maintain convergent understandings and cooperative relations along the road to the future.”