NAPSnet Top Story: Rice, China’s Jiang Discuss N.Korea Nuclear Issue U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice discussed the urgent issue of the DPRK’s nuclear ambitions with the PRC’s military chief Jiang Zemin in Beijing Thursday, but her host showed more interest in Taiwan. Rice and Jiang “discussed the need for North Korea to give up […]
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Hayes Says ROK Cover-Up Demonstrated Importance of Inspections
Decebmer 25, 2004 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published an article called, “South Korea’s Nuclear Surprise” written by Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes, with Jungmin Kang, Richard Tanter, Li Bin, and Tatsujiro Suzuki. The article states, “the sequence of events suggests that the Additional Protocol’s new inspection provisions work. The effectiveness of environmental sampling […]
Policy Forum 04-58A: North Korea: 2005 Outlook
Brent Choi, a North Korea Specialist at the the Joongang Daily in the ROK, writes: By the end of 2005 Kim [Jong-Il] must improve ties with the U.S. through resolving the nuclear crisis and induce Japanese capital to his state. At home he must re-organize his ruling party and establish a strong basis to revive its economy by promoting investment from Japan and other countries. But if Kim fails to address those problems in timely manner he will not only be heir-less but also under serious military threat from the outside. Time is definitely not on his side.
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 23, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 23, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 23, 2004 1. NAPSNet Schedule I. United States 2. US-DPRK Relations 3. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 5. ROK-US Relations on DPRK Nuclear Issue 6. ROK-US Relations 7. ROK on USFK 8. Mongolia on DPRK Nuclear Issue […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, December 22, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, December 22, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, December 22, 2004 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 4. DPRK on Inter – Korean Relations 5. ROK on Sino – DPRK Relations 6. Russia, US on DPRK Nuclear […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, December 21, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, December 21, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, December 21, 2004 I. United States 1. DPRK Nuclear Program 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. DPRK on Relations with the US 4. US on DPRK Regime Transformation 5. Russia on DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. ROK on PRC Role in DPRK Nuclear Issue […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, December 20, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, December 20, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, December 20, 2004 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Japan on PRC Role in DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. ROK on PRC Role in DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. US […]
Korea Backgrounder: How the South Views its Brother from Another Planet
The International Crisis Group, an independent, non-profit, multinational organization, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict, writes: it is not true, as alarmists on the right sometimes claim that South Korea is being taken down the path of socialism. Today’s young people have a dual mindset about North Korea: they are more accepting of dialogue with the regime but do not embrace the system. However, as moderates are being drowned out by the more vocal extremes, these subtle distinctions are being lost.
Policy Forum 04-56A: Runaway Ally Joins the Axis of Evil: One More Neocon Target: South Korea
Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion, writes: the neocons only want to cooperate in a scenario that destroys the North Korean regime, discredits forever anyone in the South who feels any sympathy with it, and suppresses the anti-American attitudes of those who want to negotiate with someone they label a tyrannical dictator.
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 16, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 16, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, December 16, 2004 I. United States 1. DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Japan on DPRK Sanctions 5. DPRK on Sanctions 6. US on DPRK Sanctions 7. US on Inter Korean Economic Cooperation 8. […]