I. Introduction Chua Hearn Yuit, Researcher at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and Yeo Lay Hwee, Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, write, “The turn of the tide appears to have arrived for renewed confidence in developing nuclear energy as an alternative power source in the region since the global spectre […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 20, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 20, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 20, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US-PRC Summit on DPRK 2. DPRK Counterfeiting 3. Kaesong Industrial Project 4. Arrests in DPRK 5. Expert on Inter-Korean Repatriation 6. Mongolia Internal Unrest 7. Japan-ROK Territorial Dispute 8. Japan-Iran Nuclear Program Talks 9. PRC Intellectual Property Rights […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 19, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 19, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 19, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Counterfeiting 2. Kaesong Industrial Project 3. Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks 4. DPRK-Japan Economic Cooperation 5. DPRK Budget 6. DPRK Health 7. Japanese PM on DPRK Visit 8. Japan-ROK Territorial Dispute 9. US-Japan Missile Defense Cooperation 10. US on […]
Policy Forum 06-30A: Transforming an Asymmetric Cold War Alliance: Psychological and Strategic Challenges for South Korea and the U.S.
Wonhyuk Lim, CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Fellow at the Korea Development Institute, and Korea National Strategy Institute writes, “The alternative is to deal with South Korea on more equal terms and engage it as a partner in building a new order in the region, facilitating China’s gradual transition and resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis to end the Cold War in Northeast Asia.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 18, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 18, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 18, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US-PRC Meeting on DPRK 2. US on Six Party Talks 3. PRC on Six Party Talks 4. ROK Ministerial Nominee on DPRK 5. DPRK on Japanese Island Claim 6. ROK on Japanese Island Claim 7. DPRK-PRC Cooperation 8. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 17, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 17, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 17, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on DPRK Rhetoric 2. Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks 3. Inter-Korean Agricultural Cooperation 4. ROK POW Repatriation 5. Kim Il-sung Birthday Celebrations 6. DPRK-Japan Visit Proposal 7. DPRK Abduction Issue 8. ROK-PRC Meeting on DPRK 9. DPRK Asylum Seekers […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 14, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 14, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 14, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK-US Relations 2. DPRK Abduction Issue 3. US, ROK Meeting on Kaesong 4. USFJ Realignment 5. US-PRC Trade Relations 6. Cross Strait Relations 7. PRC Rural Unrest 8. PRC Environment 9. PRC Hospital Blast Preceding NAPSNet Report I. […]
Policy Forum 06-29A: China Begins Oil Route Experiment in Mekong
Lim Tai Wei, researcher at the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA), published this report through the South-East Asia Peace and Security Network (SEAPSNet). Lim Tai Wei writes, “Even if it cannot be a main route of oil supply for China, the Mekong can certainly be an emergency route for Beijing’s strategic needs. This seems to be the message in China’s official news agency Xinhua as its headline article ran the word “explores” in covering this story.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 12, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 12, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 12, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. Inter-Korean Visit Proposal 4. Japan on Abductees 5. US Visit to Kaesong 6. DPRK Budget 7. DPRK Human Rights Rally 8. Underground Tunnel Debate 9. Trans-Asian Railway 10. […]
Policy Forum 06-28A: South Korea-U.S. Alliance Under the Roh Government
Selig S. Harrision, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame”, writes “during his remaining two years in office, President Roh could seek to make the alliance more compatible with his North Korea policies in three ways. First, he could pursue mutual North-South force reductions in bilateral discussions with Pyongyang, resisting pressures from the Pentagon and his own military-industrial complex. Second, he could press for the more ‘open and equal’ alliance discussed by Ruediger Frank in the January Korea Policy Review. Finally, he could step up efforts to promote a trilateral peace treaty ending the Korean War.”