NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 31, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 31, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Nuclear Weapons Program 2. US Nuclear Intelligence Device 3. DPRK-Iranian Cooperation on Nuclear Weapons 4. DPRK-US Relations 5. Kim Dae-jung’s Trip to DPRK 6. Indonesia to Facilitate Inter-Korean Talks 7. DPRK-Japanese Relations 8. Expert on DPRK […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 30, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 30, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, January 30, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Threat 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Accord 3. ROK-US Relations over DPRK 4. Inter-Korean Military Talks 5. DPRK-Japanese Bilateral Talks 6. DPRK Corruption 7. DPRK Defectors 8. Return of Kim Jong-il’s Brother in Law 9. US-ROK […]
Policy Forum 06-07A: Eurasia Burning: A Dark Day for Mongolian Democracy
Steve Noerper, who teaches Asia Today at New York University and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to the National University of Mongolia, writes “the downfall of Mongolia’s coalition government late Friday marks a relapse for freedom’s progress in a country that until recently had been held out as a harbinger for new democracies in the region.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 26, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 26, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, January 26, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US on DPRK Counterfeiting 2. Inter-Korean Unification Festival 3. UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2006 on DPRK 4. DPRK Defectors 5. DPRK Industry 6. DPRK Burial Ban 7. US – ROK Security Alliance 8. US on Tensions with ROK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 25, 2006
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 25, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, January 25, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. PRC on Six Party Talks 2. ROK on US Sanctions on DPRK 3. US on DPRK Counterfeiting 4. Inter-Korean Excavation Project 5. ROK-US Cooperation on DPRK 6. ROK on DPRK-US Relations 7. DPRK Military First Policy 8. DPRK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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 […]
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.”