I. United States 1. DPRK on Nuclear Talks The Associated Press (“N. KOREA DEMANDS EQUAL TREATMENT IN TALKS”, 2005-03-31) reported that the DPRK said Thursday the US should dismantle all potential nuclear threats in the region before it would discuss giving up its own nuclear program and demanded to be treated equally in disarmament talks. “Now that […]
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World Food Programme Press Conference on the DPRK
Tony Banbury, WFP Regional Director for Asia, said: “There were three main themes that emerged in my mind from this trip. The first is that the people in the DPRK are still in great need of food aid ? The second main theme I’d like to share with you is that the situation, in terms of the amount of WFP food aid going into the country these past several months, has been very good?. The last issue that is very important to touch upon is the issue of monitoring, and WFP’s operating conditions?. they [the DPRK government] started putting more limits, as of September of last year, on our operating conditions, on our monitoring.”
Global Nuclear Future: A Japanese Perspective
Tatsujiro Suzuki, Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, writes, “The primary driving force behind Japan’s reprocessing program is the management of spent nuclear fuel. The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. management of spent fuel and waste, would pose significant financial, political, and social risks to Japan’s nuclear power program. Japan should explore alternative socio-political solutions, including multinational approaches, to its complex spent fuel management issues.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 31, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 31, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 31, 2005 I. United States 1. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. DPRK on US-DPRK Relations 4. Inter-Korean Accord 5. DPRK-Japanese Relations 6. Russia-DPRK Relations 7. Gallucci on DPRK Nuclear Issue 8. US on DPRK Nuclear Export 9. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 30, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 30, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 30, 2005 I. United States 1. ROK-PRC on DPRK Nuclear Issue 2. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Program 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 4. Inter-Korean Talks 5. Russia on Possible Bush-Kim Meeting 6. Gallucci on DPRK Nuclear Issue 7. DPRK on Nuclear Program […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 29, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 29, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 29, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. US on DPRK Human Rights and Nuclear Talks 3. Sino-DPRK Relations 4. ROK on Inter-Korean Talks 5. Inter – Korean Economic Cooperation 6. ROK on Aid to the DPRK 7. DPRK […]
North Korean Refugees in China: A Human Rights Perspective James D. Seymour
James D. Seymour, is a research scholar at Columbia University and the coauthor of New Ghosts, Old Ghosts. Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China, writes: “In the wake of the North Korean famine, which began in 1995, hundreds of thousands of people fled to northeast China? They face two main problems. First is the mistreatment they sometimes receive? Secondly, Chinese authorities take the position, at least implicitly, that their obligation to return these people to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea supersedes any obligations they would have under the international human rights covenants and refugee conventions.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 28, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 28, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 28, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on Inter-Korean Talks 4. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 5. Japan, France on DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. Japan on DPRK-Japan Talks 7. DPRK-Japanese Relations 8. […]
Policy Forum 05-26A: No Longer the ‘Lone’ Superpower: Coming to Terms with China
Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, writes: “As a Hong Kong wisecrack has it, China has just had a couple of bad centuries and now it’s back. The world needs to adjust peacefully to its legitimate claims — one of which is for other nations to stop militarizing the Taiwan problem — while checking unreasonable Chinese efforts to impose its will on the region.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 24, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 24, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 24, 2005 I. United States 1. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. Sino-DPRK Relations 3. DPRK Economic Reforms 4. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. DPRK Nuclear Transfer Allegations 6. Hyundai and DPRK Nuclear Program 7. ROK on Inter-Korean Relations 8. Inter-Korean Cultural […]