An Song Nam, the Executive Director at the DPRK’s Institute of Disarmament and Peace in Pyongyang, delivered this presentation at the annual Asia-Pacific Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur in early June, with only minor edits. While presented prior to the recent “breakthrough,” it still provides a useful North Korean perspective on the broader Korean Peninsula denuclearization issue and some of the challenges that may lie ahead.
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 28, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 28, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 28, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program 2. DPRK Missile Launch 3. US on DPRK Missile Launch 4. Japan, Russia on DPRK Missile Launch 5. ROK Energy Aid to the DPRK 6. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 7. DPRK on Abductee Issue 8. Japan […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 27, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 27, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 27, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program 2. DPRK on Six Party Talks 3. DPRK Missile Test 4. DPRK-Japan Relations 5. EU on DPRK Human Rights 6. DPRK Economic Reforms 7. US-ROK Trade Relations 8. Comfort Women Issue 9. PRC on US-Japan-Australia-India […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 26, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 26, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 26, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program 2. US on DPRK HEU Program 3. ROK Aid to the DPRK 4. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. Comfort Women Issue 7. PRC-Japan East Sea Gas Dispute 8. PRC Africa Diplomacy 9. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 25, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 25, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 25, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Nuclear Issue 2. DPRK on Six Party Talks 3. Inter-Korean Relations 4. Russia on US DPRK Policy 5. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Program 6. US-ROK Trade Relations 7. ROK – Japan Joint History Textbook Project 8. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 21, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 21, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 21, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US Envoy Visits DPRK 2. DPRK on Denuclearization 3. IAEA Inspection in DPRK 4. DPRK Funds Transfer 5. Jeju Peace Forum 6. DPRK UN Human Rights Monitor 7. DPRK Local Elections 8. Inter-Korean Relations 9. DPRK-Sino Relations 10. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 20, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 20, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 20, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. Inter-Korean Economic Relations 4. DPRK Human Rights Abuses 5. PRC Gas Emissions 6. PRC Food Safety Standards 7. Sino-Japan Relations 8. Sino-US Relations 9. US-Japan Trade […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 19, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 19, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 19, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Missile Test 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Program 3. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Program 4. US Aid to DPRK 5. ROK Bans US Beef Imports 6. ROK Elections 7. PRC Economy 8. PRC Olympics 9. Sino-Russian Relations […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 18, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 18, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 18, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Reactor Shutdown 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Reactor Shutdown 3. US on DPRK Nuclear Reactor Shutdown 4. DPRK Funds Transfer 5. Inter-Korean Relations 6. ROK Aid to DPRK 7. DPRK Defectors 8. DPRK-Japan Relations 9. PRC […]
Policy Forum 07-047: Democracy and Peace in Korea Twenty Years After June 1987: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go from Here?
Paik Nak-chung, editor of the South Korean literary-intellectual journal, The Quarterly Changbi, and Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Seoul National University, writes, “In contrast, a gradual, step-by-step process opens up space for civic participation. And where, as in South Korea, civil society possesses both the will and the ability to utilize this space, citizens’ say in determining the timing and the specific contents of a given intermediate stage must continue to increase, and eventually it will not be possible to prevent the sphere of civic participation extending to the entire peninsula.”