NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 24, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 24, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on DPRK Counterfeiting 2. ROK-US Military Cooperation on DPRK 3. US on DPRK Sanctions 4. US on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 5. US Perception of Kim Jong-il 6. US on DPRK-PRC Relations 7. Japanese Military Leak […]
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North East Asia’s Undercurrents of Conflict
The International Crisis Group, an independent, non-profit, multinational organization, that works through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict, write “resolving territorial and historical disputes that have been building for decades will not be easy or quick but failure at least to ameliorate them risks undermining the peace and prosperity of the region.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 23, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 23, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 23, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK, US on Six Party Talks 3. US on Six Party Talks 4. DPRK Counterfeiting 5. ROK on DPRK Counterfeiting 6. Inter-Korean Trade 7. ROK Aid to DPRK 8. DPRK Human Rights 9. US-Japan […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 19, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 19, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 19, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 4. ROK on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 5. PRC on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 6. Experts on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to […]
The “Sopranos State”? North Korean Involvement in Criminal Activity and Implications for International Security
Sheena E. Chestnut, MPhil student in International Relations at Oxford University and graduate of Stanford University’s International Security Studies honors program, writes “Although interdiction remains a useful counter-proliferation tool, the potentially multi-use nature of criminal networks suggests that interdiction is insufficient in addressing the risks of nuclear smuggling from North Korea. the effectiveness of this kind of deterrence may rest as much on a sophisticated understanding of North Korean participation in illicit networks as on the notorious difficulties of interdiction. For these reasons, identifying and limiting North Korean involvement in illicit activity must remain a key component of U.S. policy toward the D.P.R.K.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 18, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 18, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 18, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK, PRC on Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 4. Expert on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 5. Inter-Korean Red Cross Talks 6. DPRK-US Relations 7. DPRK-US Bilateral Meeting […]
Policy Forum 06-05A: Risks and Hopes for N.E. Asia Peace
Ruediger Frank, Professor of East Asian Political Economy at the University of Vienna, writes “there is both a high risk of conflict as well as a good chance for progress on the Korean Peninsula.The Korean government therefore has a chance to actively shape the Northeast Asian future by its efforts toward North Korea, and it can utilize regional dynamics to support its policy toward the DPRK. Maintaining a proper relationship with the United States appears to be of key importance for either task.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 17, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 17, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 17, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. DPRK on Six Party Talks 3. DPRK on KEDO Pullout 4. US on Inter-Korean Relations 5. Inter-Korean Cultural Cooperation 6. DPRK-US Relations 7. DPRK-US Trade Relations 8. DPRK Refugee Status in US 9. DPRK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 16, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 16, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 16, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 2. Expert on Kim Jong-il’s Trip to PRC 3. DMZ Build-up 4. DPRK-US Relations 5. Expert on Agreed Framework 6. US Aid Worker Receives DPRK Medal 7. Book Reviews of DPRK II. CanKor […]
A U-turn on Reforms Could Starve North Korea: 1.12.06
NAPSNet Policy Forum Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland January 12th, 2006 I. INTRODUCTION Stephan Haggard, a professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the Korea-Pacific Program, and Marcus Noland, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, Washington, write“a revival of the failed socialist model would not only […]