NAPSNet Daily Report 25 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK-PRC Diplomatic Relations
2. Russia on Six-Way DPRK Talks
3. UN Resolution on Weapons Proliferation
4. Mongolia DPRK Refugee Town
5. Japan Preemptive Strike Ability
6. PRC-US Human Rights Issue
7. PRC Anti-Japan Protest
8. PRC on Taiwan Presidential Election
9. ROK Presidential Party Balance Sheets
10. US-ROK DMZ Military Drills
11. US Vice President Asia Tour
12. DPRK Economic Budget
13. DPRK Corporate Lending
14. Inter-Korean Trade
15. US-Japan Historic Treaty Display
II. Japan 1. Japan Iraq Troops Dispatch
2. Japan-US SOFA Revision
3. Bush on Japan’s War Effort
4. US on Japan’s Anti-Trafficking Measures
5. Japan MOX Fuel Go-Ahead

NAPSNet Daily Report 24 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK on Next Round of Six-Way Talks
2. DPRK on Six-nation Working Group
3. DPRK-PRC Ministerial Meeting
4. DPRK Response to US-ROK Military Drills
5. KEDO DPRK Nuclear Project
6. ROK Presidential Impeachment Hearing
7. DPRK-Japan Abduction Talks
8. OPEC DPRK Humanitarian Aid
9. PRC on US Fingerprint Plan
10. PRC-US Human Rights Dialogue
11. Japan SDF Constitutional Revision?
12. DPRK on US Neo-Conservatives
13. US Marine DMZ Training
II. Japan 1. Japan Iraq Troops Dispatch
2. Japan Anti-war Protest
3. Japan-PRC Yasukuni Controversy
4. Japan Yasukuni Shrine Lawsuit
5. Japan on PRC Military Expenditure
6. Japan MOX Fuel Go-ahead?
7. Asia-Europe Security Cooperation

NAPSNet Daily Report 22 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Nuclear Inspections
2. Inter-Korean Relations
3. DPRK Military Commander Death
4. Russia Nuclear Proliferation
5. Al-Qaida Nuclear Weapons Possession
6. US UN PRC Human Rights Resolution
7. Taiwan Election and Referendum
8. PRC Response to Taiwan Presidential Election
9. Taiwan Presidential Assassination
10. PRC Support for UN Ban on Proliferation
11. PRC Tianenmen Book
12. Germany-PRC Nuclear Plant Sale
13. ROK Bird Flu Outbreak
14. PRC Moon Rover Launch Plans

NAPSNet Daily Report 18 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK IAEA Inspections
2. DPRK Nuclear Tension
3. PRC-DPRK Foreign Minister Visit
4. ROK Presidential Impeachment
5. ROK Impeachment Economic Impact
6. PRC-DPRK Foreign Minister Visit
7. US-ROK Relations
8. Japan-Russia Relations
9. US-Hong Kong Relations
10. PRC Internet Censorship
11. OpEd: Losting Time on North Korea
II. Japan 1. Japan Iraq Troops Dispatch
2. Japan Defence Agency’s Promotion
3. Japan Nuclear Waste Management
4. Japan Constitutional Revision

Policy Forum 04-32A: The Geopolitics of Energy in Northeast Asia

The following is a paper presented by Kent Calder, Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, at the joint Korean Energy Economics Institute (KEEI) and International Energy Agency (IEA) workshop “Northeast Asia Energy Security and Regional Cooperation” in Seoul, Korea from May 17-18, 2004. In this paper Professor Calder argues that energy security is closely tied to political stability in Northeast Asia and that the DPRK is the center of this congruence. He discusses the importance of the Korean Economic Development Organization. (KEDO) and the need for a new or reissued group that includes representatives from the entire region and centers on natural gas and electricity interconnection projects.