Don Oberdorfer, a former Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, author of “The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History”, and chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, writes, “Four months after North Korea’s underground blast, it’s astonishing how far the negotiations aimed at reversing North Korea’s nuclear success have progressed-and how much the Bush administration has changed course But the fact that success is also a possibility is a direct result of the impressive efforts of the diplomats who are seeking denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 20, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 20, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 20, 2007 ——— 1. Six Party Talks 2. Japan on Unfreezing DPRK Funds 3. DPRK on IAEA Membership 4. Closure of DPRK Nuclear Facilities 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. PRC-ROK Trade Relations 7. USFK Base Realignment 8. Japan Iraq Mission 9. Japan-PRC Joint […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 19, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 19, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 19, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Macao Bank Funds 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. DPRK Working Group: Nuclear Issue 4. Inter-Korean Relations 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. US-ROK Security Alliance 7. US-Japan Security Alliance 8. Japan Comfort Women Issue 9. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 15, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 15, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 15, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. PRC on BDA Ruling 2. Japan on Removal of DPRK from Terror List 3. DPRK Working Group: Energy and Economy 4. Inter-Korean Relations 5. Inter-Korean Tourism 6. DPRK-Russia Relations 7. UN on DPRK FMD Outbreak 8. Japan Nuclear […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 14, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 14, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1. IAEA on Visit to DPRK 2. DPRK Working Groups: Energy 3. Investigation into BDA 4. US on Removal of DPRK from Terror List 5. UN on DPRK Measles Outbreak 6. Inter-Korean Relations 7. ROK-US Free Trade Talks 8. Japan on […]
The Forgotten Victims of the North Korean Crisis
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University and author of the forthcoming book Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War, writes, “Today in Japan, relatives of those who “returned” to North Korea in the Cold War years watch the difficult process of nuclear diplomacy quietly but with intense concern? While the story of the Japanese kidnap victims has dominated news headlines, this tragic story of the 93,340 who were “returned” remains little known, and hostility to North Korea (as well as fears for the fate of relatives in the North) makes it difficult for the small group of survivors now living in Japan to raise their voices.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 13, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 13, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 13, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. IAEA Visit to DPRK 2. DPRK Working Groups Schedule 3. US Treasury on DPRK Financial Sanctions 4. DPRK on Suspension of UNDP Program 5. Inter-Korean Summit 6. Japan-Australia Defense Pact 7. PRC on Japan-Australia Pact 8. Japan on […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 12, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 12, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 12, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Six Party Agreement 2. ROK on LWR for DPRK 3. DPRK on PRC Influence 4. Macao Inquiry 5. PRC-DPRK Trade Relations 6. Australia-DPRK Relations 7. US-ROK Trade Relations 8. Japan-Australian Security Relations 9. Japan Comfort Women […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, March 09, 2007
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, March 09, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, March 09, 2007 ——— 1. Introduction 2. Chosun Ilbo: ROK role in the world cannot be resisted 3. Ohmynews: Government must activate withdrawal program 4. Economic Daily: Deployment for national benefit 5. Kyunghyang News: ROK should get out of unjustifiable war 6. Hankuk Ilbo: […]
Comfort women: It’s time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word)
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, 8 March 2007, Austral Policy Forum 07-06A