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, […]
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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 […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 27, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 27, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, June 27, 2005 I. Unites States 1. US on PRC Pressure on the DPRK 2. ROK on Balancer Role 3. ROK Unification Minister to Visit US 4. US to Target Companies with Ties to DPRK 5. US Pressure Group on DPRK Human Rights Issue […]
Policy Forum 05-52A: Should Nukes Bloom in Asia?
Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author, most recently, of “Power, Terror, Peace and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk”, wrote: “A nuclear arms race across East Asia would be hugely dangerous and destabilizing. Far better that the Bush administration convince China that the wiser course is to prevent a nuke race by telling Pyongyang the time has come for a deal.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 23, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 23, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, June 23, 2005 I. United States 1. ROK on Date for Nuclear Talks 2. US on Date for Nuclear Talks 3. US on Anti-DPRK Rhetoric 4. DPRK on Bush-Kang Meeting 5. Kelly on DPRK Nuclear Issue 6. DPRK-US Relations 7. PRC President to Visit […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 22, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 22, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, June 22, 2005 I. United States 1. Inter-Korean Talks 2. DPRK on US-DPRK Relations 3. US on Inter-Korean Talks 4. ROK on US-DPRK Relations 5. Experts on DPRK-US Relations 6. ROK on DPRK Return to Talks 7. PRC, ROK on DPRK Return to Talks […]