Leon V. Sigal, Director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project in New York and author of /Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea/, writes that “for South Koreans to make the most of this second summit meeting, they must begin by appreciating its real significance as an opportunity to advance reconciliation with North Korea, which is the only way to end its nuclear ambitions and bring about much-needed change in the North.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 28, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 28, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 28, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK Working Group Meeting 2. Japan-DPRK Working Group Meeting 3. Inter-Korean Summit 4. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. US-ROK Trade Relations 7. ROK-ASEAN Trade Relations 8. Japan Cabinet Shuffle 9. Japan SDF Indian Ocean […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 27, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 27, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 27, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Border Fence 2. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 3. DPRK Arirang Festival 4. DPRK Floods 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Japan Cabinet Reshuffle 7. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission 8. Japan, PRC Space Programs 9. US on PRC […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 24, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 24, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 24, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. Changing Stance on Summit 3. Postpone Summit Till After Election 4. Korean Peninsula Issues Can’t Wait 5. Roh Policy a Failure 6. International Cooperation on DPRK 7. Denuclearize, Open Economy, 3000 8. Ambiguities in […]
Policy Forum 07-063: How Realistic Is a Nuclear-Armed Japan?
Tetsuya Endo, former vice chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan, writes, “Japan has the technology to develop nuclear weapons and, with the relevant legal revisions, Japan could actually embark on a nuclear weapons development program… However, it would require huge commitments of manpower, material and money, and it would not be so easy to change the persisting popular anti-nuclear sentiment. More importantly, a nuclear-armed Japan would face severe isolation from the international community. Given all these grave risks, it is clear that the nuclear option is surely not in the national interest of Japan and far from a realistic policy choice.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 23, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 23, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 23, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. ROK on NLL Maritime Border 2. DPRK Refugee-Defectors 3. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 4. Japan-India Relations 5. Bay of Bengal Naval Drill 6. US on PRC Military 7. SCO Energy Cooperation 8. US-PRC Trade Relations 9. PRC Media […]
Policy Forum 07-062: Seoul’s Impetuous Summit Initiative
Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, writes, “If Roh presses for a North Korean commitment to tangible progress toward denuclearization by the year’s end, then a North-South summit will be a useful adjunct to the Six-Party Talks. It is more likely, however, that the meeting will provide only a patina of progress, and it could actually endanger multilateral efforts to pressure Pyongyang to divest itself of its nuclear weapons.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 22, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 22, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 22, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Nuclear Programme 2. DPRK-US Normalization Talks 3. Inter-Korean Military Relations 4. ROK Abductees 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Japan-ROK Economic Relations 7. Japan-India Relations 8. Japan MSDF Indian Ocean Mission 9. Shanghai Cooperation Organization 10. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 21, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 21, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 21, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Russia on DPRK Peace and Security Working Group 2. US on Removal of DPRK from Terror List 3. Relief for DPRK Flood Victims 4. ROK – US Joint Military Excercise 5. Japan-India Relations 6. Japan’s Emergency Energy Measures […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 20, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 20, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 20, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Peace and Security Working Group 2. DPRK Flood 3. UNDP DPRK Investigation 4. DPRK Refugee-Defectors 5. ROK Hostages 6. ROK Presidential Race 7. PRC Nuclear Power Plants 8. PRC-Kazakhstan Pipeline 9. PRC Typhoon 10. PRC Safety […]