NAPSNet Daily Report 21 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK-US-PRC Multilateral Talks
2. US Domestic Politics on DPRK
3. DPRK Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
4. DPRK-ROK Talks
5. DPRK-PRC-ROK Diplomacy
7. SARS and PRC Domestic Politics
8. PRC SARS Death Toll 9. ROK-US Diplomatic Relations
10. DPRK-Japan Relations
11. PRC-US Espionage
12. DPRK-Australia Naval Interception
13. DPRK Missile Test Site Explosion
II. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK Nuclear Issue Talks
2. PRC’s Attitude towards Trilateral Talks
3. Nations’ Response to Trilateral Talks
4. PRC-Japan Relations
5. PRC Symposium on “Wang-Koo talks”
6. DPRK-ROK Relations
7. DPRK’s Nuclear Power
III. Japan 1. Japan’s Role in Iraq Reconstruction
2. Japan Military Emergency Legislation
3. Japan Landmine Stocks
4. Japan-US Joint Military Drill
IV. CanKor E-Clipping 1. Issue #122

NAPSNet Daily Report 18 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Plutonium Reprocessing?
2. US on DPRK Reprocessing and DPRK Multilateral Talks
3. ROK on DPRK Reprocessing
4. PRC on DPRK Multilateral Talks
5. DPRK-US-PRC Multilateral Talks
6. Japan Response on Rumsfeld DPRK Aid Comment
7. Japan SDF in Iraq
8. PRC SARS Death Toll
9. Hong Kong on SARS Crisis
10. Japan on Japan Cluster Bombs
II. Japan 1. Yasukuni Shrine Issue
2. Japan-DPRK Relations
3. Japan-PRC Relations
4. Japan’s Possession of Cluster Bombs

NAPSNet Daily Report 17 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. PRC Role in DPRK-US Talks
2. US on DPRK Multilateral Talks
3. DPRK on DPRK-US-PRC Talks
4. ROK on DPRK-US-PRC Talks
5. SARS Summit
6. Japan Missile Defense
7. PRC US Espionage Case
8. US Agent Orange in Vietnam War
9. DPRK Human Rights
10. Japan Cluster Bomb Possession
11. Japan Role in Iraq Reconstruction
12. PRC Economic Growth
13. DPRK Humanitarian Aid
II. Japan 1. Japan’s Role in Iraq Reconstruction
2. Japan DPRK Missile Launch Simulation
3. Japan Offensive Military System
4. US Bases in Japan
5. Japan Domestic Politics
6. Japan Domestic Economy

NAPSNet Daily Report 14 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK on DPRK Nuclear Stance
2. DPRK Multilateral Talks?
3. US Response to DPRK Multilateral Talks
4. Japan on DPRK Multilateral Talks
5. SARS Virus
6. Japan Domestic Economy
7. Japan Domestic Politics
II. People’s Republic of China 1. Japan’s Oncoming Military Exercises
2. Russia-ROK Talk on DPRK Issue
3. PRC-ROK Relations
4. ROK-US Relations
5. DPRK-US Relations
6. Russia-US Relations
7. DPRK-ROK Relations
8. PRC’s Attitude towards DPRK Issue
9. PRC-Japan Relations
10. DPRK-Japan Relations
11. ROK Weapons Development
12. DPRK’s Stance on Nuke Issue
13. ROK’s Attitude towards DPRK Issue
III. Japan 1. Japan-RF Relations
2. Japan-PRC Relations
3. Japan-DPRK Relations
4. Japan’s Role in Iraq War

NAPSNET Week in Review 11 April, 2003

Korean Peninsula 1. UN DPRK Talks The U.N. Security Council failed to reach agreement on Thursday on a common approach to confronting the DPRK for its plans to reactivate an atomic energy program capable of producing nuclear bombs. Facing stiff PRC and Russian opposition to U.N. action, the US, France and Britain temporarily ended their […]

NAPSNet Daily Report 11 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK War Readiness
2. PRC-US Espionage
3. ROK Stealth Warship
4. PRC and US on Iraq and DPRK
5. Russia on DPRK Nuclear Inspections
6. DPRK Black Market Exports
7. ROK New US Ambassador Appointment
8. ROK-US Relations on DPRK and Iraq
9. DPRK-PRC Nuclear Relations
10. Russia on DPRK Economic Sanctions
11. SARS as Mutant Cold Virus
12. PRC Executions
13. US on UN PRC Human Rights Resolution
14. Japan Environment Tax
II. Japan 1. Japan’s Role in Iraq War
2. Japan’s ODA Policy
3. US Bases in Okinawa
4. Japan’s New Military Plane
5. Japanese Logistic Support for US
6. Japan-PRC Relations
7. Japan’s Role in Iraq
8. Japan’s Position on DPRK’s Withdrawal from NPT

Policy Forum 03-29A: A Role For Russia In Korean Settlement

This paper was originally prepared for the Task Force on U.S. Korea Policy sponsored by the Center for International Policy and Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Brookings Institution, Washington, January 9, 2003. The 28-member panel included Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., former Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs of Staff; two former U.S. ambassadors to South Korea, Donald P. Gregg and James T. Laney; Lee H. Hamilton, Vice-Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci, who negotiated the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea; and Selig S. Harrison, Chairman of the Task Force, Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and a leading Korea expert; and the directors of research institutes specializing in Korea and East Asia at ten leading Universities. The Task Force convened on three occasions between November 2002 and January 2003. It was co-sponsored by the Center for International Policy and the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago. Funding was provided by the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Center for East Asian Studies. For more information on the task force: http://www.ciponline.org/asia/

NAPSNet Daily Report 10 April, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. UN DPRK Talks
2. US on DPRK Nuclear Issue
3. PRC-Russia UN Statement Obstruction
4. Russia on DPRK Guarantee
5. Japan on DPRK NPT Withdrawal
6. DPRK Military
7. ROK US Army Relocation
8. PRC-US Counter-Intelligence
9. PRC SARS Data
10. Japan on Iraq Reconstruction
11. PRC on Iraq Reconstruction
12. ROK-US Presidential Meeting
13. Japan Nuclear Response Bill
14. ASEAN on DPRK Nukes
15. ROK Domestic Economy
II. Republic of Korea 1. ROK President Visit to US in May
2. ROK-US Military Talks
3. 3 North Koreans Repatriated
4. Opposition to Reduction and Relocation of US Troops
III. Japan 1. Japan’s Role in Iraq War
2. US on Japan’s Role in Iraq Reconstruction
3. Japan’s Economic Interest in Iraq
4. Japan Anti-War Sentiment

Policy Forum 03-28A: Toward An ‘Asian’ North Korea

Mindy Kotler, director and founder of the Japan Information Access Project in Washington, DC, asserts that the Bush administration must examine its three fundamental assumptions of North Korea: 1) Kim Jong Il is a gangster and not a legitimate head of state; 2) North Korea is a client state of the People’s Republic of China; and 3) North Korea’s neighbors are not concerned with another Asian nuclear power. By failing to analyze these assumptions, the Bush administration has hindered a creative response to North Korea’s nuclear program.