United States 1. Rumsfeld DPRK Connection Fortune Magazine carried an analytical article that opined Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the DPRK. So it’s surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the controversial 1994 […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report 02 May, 2003
CONTENTS
1. PRC-ROK DPRK Crisis
2. Rumsfeld DPRK Connection
3. Japan-India DPRK Relations
4. DPRK Drug Smuggling
5. Japan DPRK Satellite Surveillance
6. Japan Role in Post-War Iraq
7. PRC New SARS Cases
8. ROK Demography
II. Japan 1. Defense Agency’s Misuse of Personal Data
2. Japan’s Role in Iraq Reconstruction
3. Japan’s Diplomacy in the Middle East
4. TEPCO Nuclear Reactor Reopen
5. US Bases in Okinawa
6. Japan Constitution Revision
7. Japan Missile Defense Plan
NAPSNet Daily Report 01 May, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Nuclear Stance
2. US-ROK-Japan Multilateral Talks
3. US DPRK Nuclear Investigation
4. Japan-DPRK Diplomatic Establishment
5. DPRK-UK Dialogue
6. Japan-US May Summit
7. SARS Global Outbreak
8. ROK Domestic Political Amnesty
9. Japan New Age Cult
10. PRC SARS Panic
11. Japan Domestic Economy
12. PRC Zhao Ziyang
13. Japan DPRK Spy Ship
14. DPRK on Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks
II. Republic of Korea 1. Only ROK Army in Charge of JSA
2. Diplomatic Resolution on DPRK Nuke
3. ROK Stance on DPRK Unclear
4. Inter Korean Ministerial Talks
III. Japan 1. US-DPRK Relations
2. Japan-France Relations
3. US-Japan-ROK-PRC Relations over DPRK Issues
4. Japan-British Relations
5. Japan’s Diplomacy in the Middle East
6. Japan-Germany Relations
7. Japan-US Relations
IV. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue 123
NAPSNet Daily Report 30 April, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Nuclear Weapons?
2. DPRK on US Role in DPRK-US Talks
3. DPRK on Economic Sanctions Consequence
4. DPRK Military
5. DPRK-ROK Nuclear Diplomacy
6. ROK-US Relations
7. ROK Domestic Politics
8. Japan Role in Post-War Iraq
9. DPRK on US DPRK Policy
10. PRC SARS Warning
11. PRC SARS Medical Coverage
12. SARS Cellphone Rumors Arrests
13. PRC SARS Stock Exchange Closures
NAPSNET Week in Review 25 April, 2003
United States 1. US Domestic Politics on DPRK Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld circulated to key members of the administration a Pentagon memorandum proposing a radically different approach: the US, the memo argued, should team up with the PRC to press for the ouster of the DPRK’s leadership. Rumsfeld’s team, administration officials said, was urging […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 25 April, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-US Multilateral Talks Collapse
2. DPRK on DPRK-US-PRC Multilateral Talks
3. US on DPRK-US-PRC Multilateral Talks
4. PRC and DPRK Nuclear Brinksmanship
5. ROK and Japan on DPRK Nuclear Claim
6. Russia on DPRK-US Multilateral Discussion
7. Japan-DPRK Relations
8. PRC International Economy
9. Japan Domestic Economy
10. PRC SARS Virus
11. PRC G8 Invitation
Policy Forum 03-30A: North Korea Is Poised To Cross The Nuclear Rubicon: Will The Canary Die In The Mine?
Alexandre Y. Mansourov argues Kim Jong Il’s game plan in Beijing includes a) treating the Chinese intermediaries as a pro-American party at the talks, which are best approached as a two against one boxing match; b) giving both, the PRC and the United States, an advance notice about pending initiation of reprocessing operations; c) tying down Washington at the negotiation table and buying time for military build-up at home; d) watching for the “canary in the mine” to die as an early warning signal about possible American attack; and e) framing the United States up in a way delegitimizing any U.S. unilateral military action against the North in the eyes of the international community. He further argues that the trilateral talks offer the United States a venue to present a real ultimatum to North Korea in the presence of Chinese witnesses – disarm and open up or else, with China’s tacit support behind the scenes for further enforcement action in case of the North Korean non-compliance. Dr. Mansourov concludes that the Beijing trilateral talks are likely to end up with a spectacular diplomatic disaster and may lead to further escalation of nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula.
NAPSNet Daily Report 24 April, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Nuclear Armed
2. PRC WHO SARS Quarantine
3. Japan PRC War Time Rape Victims
4. Japan Aum Cult Death Sentence Demand
5. Japan Domestic Politics
II. Republic of Korea 1. Trilateral Talks with US, DPRK and PRC
2. ROK against UN Vote on DPRK
3. US Dovish Perspective on DPRK
III. Japan 1. Defense Agency’s Misuse of Personal Data
2. Koizumi European Tour
3. Tokyo Governor Ishihara on Japan-DPRK Relations
4. Bank of Japan on SARS Influence
NAPSNet Daily Report 23 April, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-US-PRC Multilateral Talks
2. Russia on Catastrophic DPRK Event
3. DPRK Jet Fighter Counter-Surveillance
4. Japan Middle East Visit
5. Japan Red Army Radical Hijacker Return to Japan
6. PRC SARS Uprising
7. SARS WHO Travel Alerts
8. Hong Kong Financial Response to SARS
9. PRC Human Rights
NAPSNet Daily Report 22 April, 2003
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-US Multilateral Talks
2. DPRK Domestic Economy
3. ROK on DPRK-US Multilateral Talks
4. US DPRK Strike?
5. US on DPRK Multilateral Talks
6. Taiwan Domestic Politics
7. Japan Role in Post-War Iraq Reconstruction
8. PRC SARS Status
9. PRC SARS Tourism
10. DPRK Anti-SARS Measures
II. Republic of Korea 1. ROK’s Role in Talks on DPRK
2. ROK-US Military Consultation
3. US Internal Conflict in Dealing with DPRK
4. DPRK’s Remarks on Nuclear Reprocessing