Hy-Sang Lee, emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin and author of North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress, writes: “Under a settlement allowing a two-bomb scarecrow strategy Pyongyang would be committing suicide if the bombs would be used in a first strike (inviting an obliterating retaliation), and this scarecrow strategy would be rendered precarious if one of the bombs would be sold. Hence, the two-bomb settlement is a second best option which still would respect the red line of the United States.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 I. NAPSNet Addendum 1. DPRK Issues Rare Foreign Ministry ‘Memorandum’ on 6-Party Talks Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet Addendum 1. DPRK Issues Rare Foreign Ministry ‘Memorandum’ on 6-Party We bring you a DPRK Foreign Ministry Memorandum [choso’nminjujuu’igonghwaguk oemuso’ng pimangnok]: The United […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. ROK – Russia on DPRK Nuclear Issue 6. US – ROK on DPRK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, March 07, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. ROK – Russia on DPRK Nuclear Issue 6. US – ROK on DPRK […]
Policy Forum 05-20A: The North Korea Nuclear Issue and Inter-Korean Relations: Prospects and South Korea’s Corresponding Strategy
Yang Moo-Jin, Professor at Kyungnam University’s Graduate School of North Korea Studies, writes: “Peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula depend primarily on the efforts of the two Koreas. The situation could be positive or negative according to how they manage it. The year 2005 is very meaningful for both South and North, since it is their 60th year of Independence, and the 5th year of the June 15 Joint Declaration. This year, I expect that we will be able to settle peace on the peninsula more firmly through economic development, improvement of the South-North relationship, and resolution of the North Korea nuclear problem.”
Policy Forum 05-21A: Restore US Nukes to South Korea
John Parker, is a freelance writer based in Thailand, writes: “The nuclear cat is well and truly out of the bag, which means that the military option for reunification has slipped from Seoul’s fingers for good; and will only be possible for Pyongyang if the US pulls out of South Korea completely without leaving any nuclear weapons behind – still a very unlikely scenario, recent force cuts notwithstanding. That leaves the other option: restore nuclear weapons to the South in full awareness that this could start an arms race which might lead to the collapse of the DPRK.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 03, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 03, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, March 03, 2005 I. United States 1. DPRK on Nuclear Talks / Missile Program 2. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 3. DPRK on Missile Program 4. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. US on DPRK Missile Program 6. US, PRC on DPRK Nuclear Issue 7. […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 02, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 02, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, March 02, 2005 I. United States 1. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 2. PRC, ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. IAEA on DPRK Nuclear Talks 7. Pakistan […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 01, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 01, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, March 01, 2005 I. United States ——— 1. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK, PRC on DPRK Nuclear Issue 4. DPRK on Nuclear Program 5. IAEA on DPRK Nuclear Program 6. Japanese Regulations on DPRK Shipping 7. DPRK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 28, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 28, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 28, 2005 I. United States 1. US, ROK, and Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. PRC, Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. PRC, ROK on DPRK […]