Charles Wolf Jr., a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and Hoover Institution and the co-author of “North Korean Paradoxes”, wrote: “How and exactly when unification may occur — whether by system evolution or collapse, by internal dissidence, by fragmentation or by conflict — is no less conjectural now than it was a decade earlier. At that time, such conjectures were rife, and we were surprised that none of the envisaged possibilities ensued. Now, when such conjectures are absent, and attention instead is pre-empted by North Korea’s threatened or actual acquisition of nuclear weapons, we may be surprised again — but this time in a reverse direction.”
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Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard Liners
Getting Around Pyongyang’s Hard Liners Policy Forum July 7th, 2005 By Selig S Harrison I. Introduction Selig S. Harrison, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame“, wrote: “For now the hard-liners are in charge in Pyongyang. Pending normalized relations, North Korea is unlikely […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 07, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 07, 2005 I. United States 1. ROK on Six-Party Talks 2. ROK on Joint Proposal to DPRK 3. US on Proposal, Six-Party Talks 4. ROK on Second Inter-Korean Summit 5. ROK on Possibility of US Attack on DPRK 6. US-ROK Alliance 7. DPRK-Iran […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 06, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 06, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 06, 2005 I. Unites States 1. US on Six-Party Talks 2. ROK on Six-Party Talks 3. ROK on Inter-Korean Relations 4. ROK on Rice’s Tour of Asia 5. ROK Negotiator in US 6. EU Parliamentarians to Visit Koreas 7. New US Ambassador for […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 05, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 05, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 05, 2005 I. Unites States 1. US-DPRK Relations 2. ROK on US-DPRK Relations 3. US on DPRK Weapons 4. DPRK on US Nuclear Stance 5. ROK on Six Party Talks 6. ROK, US on Six Party Talks 7. DPRK on Nuclear Weapons Program, […]
The Kims’ Obsession: Archives Show Their Quest To Preserve the Regime
Robert Litwak, a National Security Council staff member in the mid-1990s and director of international studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, and Kathryn Weathersby, a senior associate of the center’s Cold War International History Project and coordinator of its Korea Initiative, which obtained the documents cited in this article, wrote: “The Bush administration cannot ground its negotiations with North Korea on the assumption — or vain hope — that the regime is in danger of imminent collapse. Despite economic implosion and famine, that regime has proved far more durable than anyone expected.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 30, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 30, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 30, 2005 I. United States 1. US, ROK and Japan Meeting with DPRK Official 2. PRC on US-DPRK Relations 3. Expert on DPRK Return to Talks 4. US Sanctions on DPRK 5. DPRK Nuclear Reactors 6. IMF on DPRK Membership 7. Japan-DPRK Trade […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 29, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 29, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 29, 2005 I. United States 1. ROK on Six-Party Talks 2. PRC on Six-Party Talks 3. Experts on DPRK Return to Six Party Talks 4. ROK-US Relations on Six-Party Talks 5. US on DPRK Nuclear Power 6. US Rehearse Plan for DPRK Crisis […]
Policy Forum 05-53A: Korea’s Slow-Motion Reunification
John Feffer, author of ”North Korea, South Korea,” and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus, writes: “It’s time for the United States to stop fantasizing about an imminent North Korean collapse. Let’s support instead the Korean reunification happening right before our eyes.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 28, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 28, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, June 28, 2005 I. Unites States 1. DPRK Return to Six-Party Talks 2. DPRK Defector on Six-Party Talks 3. US Nuclear Strategy Experts on DPRK Nuclear Issue 4. ROK on DPRK Collapse 5. ROK on US-DPRK Relations 6. ROK PM Visits DMZ 7. Inter-Korean […]