The Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA), a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to the research, analysis and discussion of regional and international issues, writes, “tackling Southeast Asian health and terrorism problems seems to be the priority. For now, human right issues are still being brewed in the Congressional Democratic pot.”
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Policy Forum 06-99: The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan’s Military First Politics
Gavan McCormack, a coordinator at Japan Focus and author of the forthcoming book Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, writes, “In Okinawa more than anywhere else in Japan, the precarious and one-sided nature of the supposedly ‘mature’ and ‘second-to-none’ US-Japan relationship is palpable. In his eagerness to please his Washington friend, Prime Minister Koizumi promised Bush something that he almost certainly could not deliver: a solution to the long-running dispute over relocating the Futenma base; his successor, Abe, was left with the obligation to deliver on that promise.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, November 16, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, November 16, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, November 16, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. DPRK on Six Party Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Human Rights 4. Koreas at 2008 Olympics 5. DPRK on ROK Monster Film 6. US-ROK Security Alliance 7. US-Japan Missile Defense Cooperation 8. […]
Policy Forum 06-97: Report on North Korean Nuclear Program
Siegfried S. Hecker, researcher at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, writes, “My general impression is that the Oct. 9, 2006 nuclear test, which followed DPRK’s Feb.10, 2005 announcement of having manufactured nuclear weapons, will make it much more difficult to convince the DPRK to give up its nuclear weapons… The prevalent view we found in China, with which I concur, is that the United States must demonstrably address DPRK’s security before there is any hope of denuclearization.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 15, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 15, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 15, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Budget for Inter-Korean Cooperation 3. DPRK Scarlet Fever Outbreak 4. US-ROK Relations 5. ROK-Japan Trade Relations 6. Japan on Nuclear Weapons 7. Japan Wartime Labor Lawsuits 8. PRC-Japan East Sea Territorial Dispute 9. US-PRC […]
Cuba 1962 and North Korea Now
Leon V. Sigal., director of the Northeast Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York and author of “Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea“, writes, “Will President Bush give Kim Jong-il — and himself — a similar face-saving way out? He could start by urging banks that have frozen North Korea’s hard currency accounts to release the proceeds of its legitimate trade and then engage in sustained diplomatic give-and take for a change.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 14, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 14, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 14, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK on PSI, UN Sanctions 3. Japan on UN Sanctions 4. Japan on Nuclear Weapons 5. Japan Remilitarization 6. Japan NSC 7. ROK Iraq Contribution 8. US-PRC Military Cooperation 9. Sino-Indian Relations 10. Sino-Pakistani […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, November 13, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, November 13, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, November 13, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Blix on Six-Party Talks 3. US-DPRK Relations 4. ROK on PSI 5. DPRK Financial Sanctions 6. DPRK Human Rights 7. US-PRC Military Relations 8. US-PRC Trade Relations 9. Russia-PRC Relations 10. PRC Unrest 11. […]
Global Nuclear Future: A Japanese Perspective
Tatsujiro Suzuki, Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, writes, “The primary driving force behind Japan’s reprocessing program is the management of spent nuclear fuel. The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. management of spent fuel and waste, would pose significant financial, political, and social risks to Japan’s nuclear power program. Japan should explore alternative socio-political solutions, including multinational approaches, to its complex spent fuel management issues.”
Global Nuclear Future: A Japanese Perspective
Tatsujiro Suzuki, Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, writes, “The primary driving force behind Japan’s reprocessing program is the management of spent nuclear fuel. The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. management of spent fuel and waste, would pose significant financial, political, and social risks to Japan’s nuclear power program. Japan should explore alternative socio-political solutions, including multinational approaches, to its complex spent fuel management issues.”