I. Introduction Peter Hayes, Executive Director for the Nautilus Institute, writes that in the mid-1990s, Ukraine-which had possession of approximately 1,900 former Soviet nuclear warheads-agreed to get rid of them all in exchange for security assurances, economic support, and energy assistance. Hayes argues that this model could be applied to North Korea as well. Through […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report 30 October, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-PRC on Multilateral Nuclear Talks
2. PRC-DPRK Relations
3. DPRK on ‘Unpredictable’ Nuclear Crisis
4. DPRK Defector: DPRK Regime Unstable
5. UN for More DPRK Food Aid
6. ROK Al Qaeda Ship Tip
7. ROK Warning Shots at DPRK Ship
8. PRC, DPRK Ships Collide
9. PRC-US Foreign Exchange Situation
10. Powell and PRC-US Relations
11. US Military Program in Taiwan
NAPSNet Daily Report 28 October, 2003
CONTENTS
1. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks in December
2. ROK DPRK Condolences for Kim Yong-sun
3. ROK-DPRK Private Investment
4. Inter-Korean Economic Talks
5. PRC-US Market Dispute
6. Japan General Election
7. DPRK on Inter-Korean Railroad Meeting
8. Japanese Woman Seeking Asylum in DPRK
9. PRC Space Program
II. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #139
NAPSNet Daily Report 27 October, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Third Missile Test Fire?
2. US Congress DPRK Visit Delay
3. DPRK on US Nuclear Proposal
4. Top DPRK US Defection
5. DPRK Domestic Politics
6. US-PRC Economic Relations
7. Cross-Straits Relations
8. PRC-Australia Relations
9. Japan Domestic Politics
10. Japan-PRC Russia Energy Competition
11. ROK Anti-US Activism
12. DPRK-PRC Economic Trade
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Cancels All Remaining DPRK Tours
2. DPRK-US Relations
3. Former DPRK Defector returned to DPRK Re-entered ROK
4. ROK Regards DPRK’s Reactions as A Nod on U.S. Proposal
5. Former Secretary of DPRK’s Ruling Worker’s Party US Visit
6. Six-Way Talks Are Likely to Begin Soon
7. DPRK’s Point Man for DPRK-ROK Affairs died of Traffic Accident
8. DPRK Fired Short-Range Missile Again
III. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK-US Relations on Nuke Issue
2. PRC-DPRK Relations
3. PRC-Japan Relations
4. PRC-US Relations
5. US President on APEC
6. PRC President Press Conference after APEC
7. Russia-Ukraine Relations
NAPSNet Daily Report 24 October, 2003
NAPSNet Daily Report 30 September, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Nuclear Diplomacy
2. ROK on DPRK Regime Change
3. DPRK on US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
4. ROK-Japan-US DPRK Diplomacy
5. ROK Domestic Politics
6. ROK Anti-Iraq Troops Activism
8. PRC-Japan Relations
9. PRC Domestic Politics
10. Japan-PRC Chemical Weapons Compensation
11. ASEAN Non-Aggression Pact
12. Japan Domestic Economy
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Defections
2. US DPRK ‘Freedom Bill’
3. US Congressman DPRK Visit
4. DPRK on ROK Cash Summit Convictions
5. DPRK Inspection Apology Demands
6. US DPRK Natural Gas Supply
7. US-Russia on DPRK Nuclear Weapons
8. Mongolia DPRK Refugee Camp
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #135
NAPSNET Week in Review 26 September, 2003
United States 1. Rumsfeld on US-ROK Military Alliance and DPRK US plans to boost its military potential on the Korean Peninsula over the next four years — and make a concerted effort to strengthen its security alliance with the ROK, said US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He did not offer any specifics. But addressing the […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 26 September, 2003
CONTENTS
1. US-ROK Military Alliance
2. US ROK Spy Planes
3. DPRK-Japan Relations
4. ROK DPRK Summit Scandal
5. PRC-DPRK Relations
6. PRC WMD Proliferation
7. PRC-Hong Kong Relations
8. PRC First Manned Spacecraft Launch
9. PRC SARS Monitoring Network
10. Japan Earthquake Status
II. Japan 1. Japan on September 11th
2. Japan Iraq Troop Deployment
3. US Bases in Japan
4. Japan Constitutional Revision
5. Japan Nuclear Fuel Tax
NAPSNet Daily Report 25 September, 2003
Policy Forum 03-42A: Diplomatic Fantasyland: The Illusion of a Negotiated Solution to the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Nichoas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that a negotiated settlement to the North Korean nuclear drama would be the most desirable outcome for all of the DPRK’s neighbors. However, a diplomatic settlement resulting in a permanent and irreversible denuclearization is an exceedingly unlikely prospet. Eberstadt identifies three major obstacles to a peaceful diplomatic solution: Pyongyang’s own nuclear intentions, the international precedents for other would-be proliferators that would be established by any deal that rewarded the DPRK, and Pyongyang’s credibility as a negotiation partner.