The following is an essay by Lutz Drescher. Drescher, lived as an ecumenical worker in the ROK from 1987 to 1995. Since 2001, he works for the Association of Churches and Missions in Southwest Germany (EMS) as liaison secretary for East Asia. He has participated in numerous meetings with representatives of the North Korean Christian Federation. He coordinated the first official Visit of an EKD (Evangelical Church Germany) delegation to the DPRK in May 2002. The essay states “there is thus freedom of religion, and yet it is a restricted freedom insofar as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not a democratic country with individual rights of liberty in the Western sense. One can say that the members of the church in North Korea live out their faith under particularly harsh conditions. For precisely this reason, they depend on our intercessions and visits.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 21, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 21, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 21, 2004 United States 1. DPRK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. UK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Russia on DPRK Nuclear Issue 5. PRC on ROK Nuclear Experiment 6. Japan, ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 7. ROK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 20, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 20, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 20, 2004 United States 1. Ryanggang Blast 2. DPRK on Ryanggang Blasts 3. IAEA on Ryanggang Blasts 4. EU on Ryanggang Blasts 5. ROK on Ryanggang Blasts 6. US on DPRK Nuclear Issue 7. ROK on DPRK Multilateral Talks 8. IAEA on ROK […]
NAPSNET Weekly Report 17 September, 2004
South Korea’s Nuclear Mis-Adventures This paper by Jungmin Kang, Tatsujiro Suzuki, and Peter Hayes examines the recent disclosures of a ROK uranium enrichment program. Jungmin Kang is an independent nuclear policy analyst in Seoul and Associate of Nautilus Institute; Tatsujiro Suzuki is a nuclear analyst affiliated with University of Tokyo in Tokyo; Peter Hayes is […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 16, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 16, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 16, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Blast 2. DPRK Blast Inspection 3. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. IAEA on ROK Nuclear Disclosure 6. ROK Nuclear Disclosure 7. Inter Korean Economic Cooperation 8. DPRK Economic Reforms 9. DPRK […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 15, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 15, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 15, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Blast 2. ROK on DPRK Blast 3. US – ROK Relations 4. DPRK Nuclear Talks and the US Election 5. DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. Russia on DPRK Nuclear Talks 7. Japan on DPRK Nuclear Talks 8. DPRK […]
Policy Forum 04-33A: The North Korea Nuclear Issue: The Road Ahead
The following is a paper by Robert J. Einhorn, Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation in 1999 to August 2001. Einhorn writes: “if the North Koreans have decided they must have a substantial nuclear weapons capability whatever we may do (hardly a remote possibility), they would likely reject a reasonable offer. In that event, the next U.S. administration would have little choice but to turn to a longer-term strategy of pressure, containment, and eventual rollback. But having made a proposal that North Korea’s neighbors considered fair and balanced, we would be in a stronger position to gain multilateral support for that strategy.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 14, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 14, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 14, 2004 United States 1. US on DPRK Blast 2. ROK on DPRK Blast 3. DPRK on Blast 4. US on US – DPRK Relations 5. DPRK – US Relations 6. US on Relations with DPRK 7. DPRK Talks and the US Elections […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 13, 2004
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 13, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 13, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Blast Reported 2. US on DPRK Blast 3. Japan on DPRK Blast 4. ROK on DPRK Blast 5. DPRK on DPRK Blast 6. DPRK Blast Speculation 7. DPRK on DPRK Blast Speculation 8. DPRK Nuclear Talks 9. […]
South Korea’s Nuclear Mis-Adventures
The following is a paper by Jungmin Kang, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Peter Hayes. Jungmin Kang is an independent nuclear policy analyst in Seoul and Associate of Nautilus Institute; Tatsujiro Suzuki is a nuclear analyst affiliated with University of Tokyo in Tokyo; Peter Hayes is Director of Nautilus Institute in San Francisco.