Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, authors of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform, write, “While we welcome the February 13 agreement, ongoing conflicts over implementation underline that it was a first step only. We are still far from either resolving the North Korea’s chronic food emergency or successfully denuclearizing of the Korean peninsula.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 26, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 26, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 26, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Funds Transfer Issues 2. US-DPRK Talks on Six Party Agreement 3. DPRK Off US Arms Trade Blacklist 4. DPRK Military Celebration 5. DPRK Defector-Refugee Hunger Strike 6. ROK Trade 7. USFK Base Realignment 8. ROK-Japan Joint History […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 25, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 25, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 25, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Funds Transfer Issues 2. US-DPRK Talks on Six Party Agreement 3. DPRK Off US Arms Trade Blacklist 4. DPRK Military Celebration 5. DPRK Defector-Refugee Hunger Strike 6. ROK Trade 7. USFK Base Realignment 8. ROK-Japan Joint History […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 24, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 24, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 24, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Visit to BDA 2. US-DPRK Relations 3. ROK Aid to DPRK 4. Foreign Investment in Kaesong 5. UNDP Audit of DPRK Ops 6. ROK-PRC Miliary Relations 7. US-Japan Air Drills 8. Japan MSDF Mission 9. Cross Strait […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 23, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 23, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 23, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks Diplomacy 2. PRC DPRK Oil Exports 3. ROK Aid to DPRK 4. Lefkowitz on DPRK Human Rights 5. DPRK IT Infrastructure 6. Inter-Korean IT Cooperation 7. DPRK Cabinet Shuffle 8. ROK-PRC Military Relations 9. ROK-Canada […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 13, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 13, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 13, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. ROK Weekly Introduction 2. Ball in DPRK’s Court 3. US Leaves ROK on Our Own 4. Process Unnecessarily Rushed 5. Denuclearization Prospects Brighten 6. US Surrenders to DPRK 7. How Will DPRK Respond? 8. $25,000 Not […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 12, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 12, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 12, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. US on Frozen DRPK Funds 3. IAEA on DPRK Inspections 4. DPRK Premier Election 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. ROK Iraq Role 7. Sino-Japanese Relations 8. USFJ Troop Realignment Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet […]
Policy Forum 07-030: North Korea’s Strategic Decisions After the February 13 Agreement
Jae-Jean Suh, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, writes, “it is highly unlikely that North Korea will refuse to integrate into the capitalist world system that other socialist nations had selected and continue to persist with its acquisition of nuclear weapons, thereby further sustaining its Cold War isolation, but would rather make a strategic choice of abolishing its nuclear weapons.”
Policy Forum 07-029: ‘Holier Than Thou Politics of Comfort Women Apology’: This Should Be Primarily About the Treatment of Women
Katharine H.S. Moon, Associate Professor of political science at Wellesley College and Associate Fellow at the Asia Society in New York City, writes that “The Japanese system of sexual slavery was first and foremost an atrocity perpetrated on women, not nations. Often, these were women of lower classes or women underprotected in some way by their own people. And whether they were Korean or Dutch or South Pacific Islander, their bodies, minds and souls hurt equally.”
Policy Forum 07-028: BDA: Hill’s Tactical Miscalculation
Tong Kim, Visiting Scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, writes that “The North Koreans should heed the rekindled criticisms among the opponents of the Bush administrations new approach to the DPRK since their refusal to participate in the talks last week. They should remind themselves that they won a rare opportunity to engage the United States after waiting 6 long years. They should also remember that the United States still has other options to resort to, if it is convinced, as events may prove right or wrong, that there is no way to reach a fair negotiated settlement.”