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

NAPSNet Daily Report 08 March, 2004

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Nuclear Stand-Off
2. DPRK Nuclear Working Groups
3. DPRK-KEDO Relations
4. DPRK-EU Relations
5. PRC on EU Arms Embargo
6. PRC-ROK Relations
7. PRC-Hong Kong Relations
8. Taiwan Presidential Election
9. Japan Constitutional Revision?
10. ROK-Japan Relations
11. DPRK Defector Death Threat
II. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC National People’s Congress
2. ROK-Japan Relations
3. PRC-US Relations on HK
4. PRC’s Commentary on Six-party Talks
5. Nations’ Attitude towards Six-party Talks
6. PRC on Japan’s Shrine Visited
7. Relations Across Taiwan Straits
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #156

NAPSNET Week in Review 5 March, 2004

United States 1. US Post-Multilateral Talks Assessment US President Bush’s chief negotiator with the DPRK told a Senate panel on Tuesday that it was “quite possible” that the country had turned all 8,000 of its spent nuclear fuel rods into plutonium to fuel nuclear weapons. The assessment, by James A. Kelly, the assistant secretary of […]