North Korea’s Legacy of Missed Opportunities

North Korea’s Legacy of Missed Opportunities Mitchell B. Reiss, Director of Policy Planning Remarks to the Heritage Foundation Washington, DC March 12, 2004 Thank you, Peter.  It is a pleasure to be here again at Heritage – a place whose prominent voice has played an important role in shaping our national debate about East Asia […]

NAPSNET Week in Review 12 March, 2004

United States 1. US Missile Shield Democratic senators Thursday criticized the administration’s budget request for the missile defense program, questioning anew whether the system will ever work. Supporters urged continued funding for the program still in development. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., called the request for $10.2 billion “truly staggering” – the largest single-year funding request […]

Policy Forum 04-09A: The Reality Behind South Korea-US Alliance March 12, 2004 By Koo Kab-woo

This essay is by Professor Koo Kab-woo from Kyungnam University. Koo argues that the intervention for dismantling the unbalanced South Korea-US alliance is essential and could be done through the solidarity of the South Korean civil society with the civil society in other East Asian countries. East Asia must be re-discovered as a new space for action. Changing the historical structure of global politics in East Asia can only be possible with the intervention of the civil society

NAPSNet Daily Report 12 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. ROK Presidential Impeachment
2. ROK Impeachment Impact on Six-party Talks
3. DPRK-US Nuclear Diplomacy
4. DPRK on ROK Security Policy
5. US on DPRK-Iran Uranium Enrichment Project?
6. PRC Role in Iraq Reconstruction
7. Taiwan Presidential Election
8. PRC on US Role in Cross-Straits Relations
9. PRC-US WTO Trade Relations
II. Japan 1. Japan Iraq Troops Dispatch
2. Japanese Participation in the Peacekeeping Operation
3. Realignment of the US Forces in Japan
4. The 50th Anniversary of the “Bravo” Test
5. Japan Fascists’ Attack on Foreign Residents
6. Japanese MOX Fuel

NAPSNet Daily Report 11 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Nuclear Arsenal
2. DPRK on US Presidential Election
3. DPRK-US Relations
4. US Missile Shield
5. DPRK-Japan Relations
6. ROK Presidential Impeachment Session
7. US-PRC WTO Relations
II. Japan 1. Japan Military Emergency Bills
2. Japan Iraq Troops Dispatch
3. Japan PKO in East Timor
4. The 50th Anniversary of the ‘Bravo’ Test
5. Japan Defense Agency’s Media Control
6. Japan Yasukuni Shrine Lawsuit
7. Japan’s Refugee Recognition