NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, June 08, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, June 08, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. Lee Leads Park in Party Polls 3. Hong Poses Challenge to Big Two 4. Pro-Roh Faction Making Moves 5. Ruling Party Unification Stalls 6. Han Announces Candidacy 7. Uri Party Not Ready for Deadline […]
Archives
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 07, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 07, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 07, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Missile Test 2. DPRK Missile Test 3. DPRK Energy 4. DPRK Humanitarian Situation 5. DMZ Wildlife Preserve 6. US-ROK Relations 7. Japan and Cross Strait Relations 8. Cross Strait Relations 9. Sino-Indian Military Relations 10. PRC Student […]
The North Korean Economy: Overview and Policy Analysis
Dick K. Nanto, Specialist in Industry and Trade Foreign Affairs, Defense at the Congressional Research Service, and Trade Division, and Emma Chanlett-Avery, Analyst in Asian Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service, write, “U.S.-led financial sanctions on North Korea have disrupted that country’s trade. In the six-party talks, economic assistance (including fuel oil) is a major bargaining chip. Economic policy options include increasing or easing economic sanctions, preventing
shipments of illicit cargo, normalizing relations with Pyongyang, negotiating a trade agreement, allowing the DPRK to join international financial institutions, and removing the country from the terrorism list.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 06, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 06, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 06, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program 2. DPRK Frozen Funds 3. Russia on DPRK Frozen Funds 4. ROK Anti-DPRK Protest 5. Singapore on Kaesong 6. Mongolia on DPRK Refugee-Defectors 7. ROK Media Control 8. Australia-Japan Defense Relations 9. Japan-Russian […]
Policy Forum 07-044: Behind the Blacklisting of Banco Delta Asia
Ronda Hauben, researcher, writer and freelance journalist, who has spent the past 14 years studying, writing and participating in online media, writes, “The purpose of the action against the BDA appears not only to have been to target North Korea and its access to the international banking system, but also to send a message to China.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 05, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 05, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 05, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Russia on Frozen DPRK Funds 2. Russia-DPRK Economic Relations 3. Australia, Japan, US Missile Defense Cooperation 4. PRC on Missile Defense Program 5. ROK Space Program 6. Japan on Climate Change 7. PRC on Climate Change 8. PRC […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 04, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 04, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 04, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. ROK, Japan, PRC on Six Party Talks 2. DPRK Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor 3. DPRK Strategy 4. ROK Aid to DPRK 5. DPRK Refugee-Defectors 6. USFK Base Realignment 7. US on ROK Role in Afghanistan 8. Japan, US, Australia […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 31, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 31, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 31, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. PRC-US Talks on DPRK Frozen Funds 2. Japan on Russian DPRK Sanctions 3. ROK Iraq Mission 4. Japan on ROK War Claim 5. Japan and Cross Strait Relations 6. PRC Rural Poverty 7. PRC Environment 8. PRC Press […]
Anticipating Six Party Energy Negotiations
Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute Executive Director and David von Hippel, Nautilus Institute Senior Associate, write, “In the long run… it is critical that a substantial fraction of the energy aid agreed to at the Six Party Talks result in developmental outcomes for the people living in the DPRK. Falling short of this goal will leave the DPRK highly insecure, and one of the essential girders of a non-nuclear future for the Korean Peninsula, the social and political stability of the DPRK, will collapse.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 30, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 30, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 30, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-PRC on Six Party Talks 2. Russian Sanctions on DPRK 3. DMZ Fences 4. Inter-Korean Relations 5. ROK-US FTA negotiations 6. ROK-Indian Military Relations 7. ROK-ASEAN Trade Relations 8. Japan-Australian Defense Cooperation 9. Japan Political Scandal 10. Cross […]