Shen Dingli, Executive Dean of Institute of International Studies, and Director of Center for American Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, and Tatsujiro Suzuki, Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Public Policy at University of Tokyo, Japan, write, “The history issue is an important issue of justice but should not hold the relationship hostage. As a former brutal colonizer, Japan has the moral responsibility to be sensitive and behave honestly while Beijing needs to develop a firm policy that is not subject to nationalism.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 28, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 28, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 28, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. PRC Visit to ROK on Six Party Talks 4. PRC – DPRK Relations 5. US Funds Radio Broadcasts to DPRK 6. DPRK on US Annual Religious […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 27, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 27, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 27, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Japan Elections 2. Inter-Korean Relations 3. Change of DPRK Representation to the UN 4. UN Special Rapporteur on DPRK Human Rights 5. DPRK International Film Festival 6. Japan Constitution Revision 7. Sino-Japanese Relations 8. Japan-ROK Relations […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 26, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 26, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 26, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on Six Party Talks 2. Armitage on DPRK Nuclear Test 3. ROK Opposition on Plan to Build Up DPRK Infrastructure 4. Inter-Korean Economic Ties Strained 5. Economic Growth at Kaesong 6. Musharraf on DPRK Nuclear Technology 7. […]
North Korean Trade with China as Reported in Chinese Customs Statistics: Recent Energy Trends and Implications Nathaniel Aden
Nathaniel Aden, researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, writes, “Whereas North Korean coal and electricity exports are sold at sub-market ‘friendship prices,’ Chinese coal and oil products have been sold to North Korea at premium prices? Chinese Customs data suggest that Beijing is taking a pragmatic, market-oriented approach to trade with its reclusive neighbor, while the increasingly asymmetrical energy embodiment of bilateral trade may reflect dilapidation of North Korea’s non-military industries.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 25, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 25, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 25, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Six Party Talks 2. US on Six Party Talks 3. Rice on DPRK at Asean 4. US Navy General on DPRK Weapons Capabilities 5. Inter-Korean Economic Talks 6. ROK FM Seeks Top UN Post 7. RO […]
Policy Forum 06-78A: Wabbit in Free Fall
Robert Carlin, former Chief of the Northeast Asia Division in INR at the State Department, presented this speech given by DPRK First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju to a meeting of North Korean diplomats held in Pyongyang over the summer. The speech states, “On the nuclear question, the guidance is quite clear and you will stick to it, no matter how often you are pestered. Whether or not we will test is not for us to know. I can tell you this-the situation in Pyongyang is where we never wanted it to be. We have no standing at all, no weight, no credibility any longer to influence the decision.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 21, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 21, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 21, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Test Site 2. International Talks on DPRK 3. Libya on DPRK Nuclear Talks Mediation 4. DPRK-US Trade 5. Kaesong Industrial Complex 6. ROK Missile Arsenal 7. ROK on Thailand Military Coup 8. IMF on ROK Job […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 20, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 20, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 20, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. International DPRK Talks 2. PRC on DPRK Sanctions 3. Inter-Korean Financial Relations 4. PRC Aid to DPRK 5. ROK-US Defense Cooperation 6. ROK-US Weapon Sales 7. ROK Economy 8. ROK Travel Advisory to Thailand 9. ROK-Japan Relations 10. […]
Policy Forum 06-77A: Are North Korea and China Drifting Apart after the Missile Test?
Suh Bohyuk, a former expert advisor at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRC) and now instructor of HUFS and other university, writes, “Sino-North Korea relations may be neither strongly attached nor completely broken, standing between such geographical reasons and different political decisions of the two countries. More profound discussions are needed about what significances such two-faced Sino-North Korea relations would have on peace on Korean peninsula.”