Peter Hayes argues that the KEDO decision to suspend heavy fuel oil shipments to the DPRK was imprudent. He suggests that the United States has lit a very short fuse to nuclear proliferation in North Korea. He argues that the DPRK should declare a unilateral freeze on its uranium enrichment activity and invite the international community to inspect this freeze pending the resumption of US-DPRK dialogue to resolve the enrichment imbroglio.
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NAPSNet Daily Report 15 November, 2002
NAPSNet Daily Report 14 November, 2002
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Nuclear Issue
2. ROK on DPRK Oil Shipments
3. DPRK on DPRK-US Relations
4. PRC Domestic Politics
5. Cross-Straits Direct Transport Links
6. Taiwan Military Developments
7. PRC on Taiwan Economic relations
8. PRC-US Talks
II. Republic of Korea 1. Informal Ministerial Conference for Democracy
2. DPRK Oil Supply
3. Opposition Party’s Tough Stance to DPRK
4. ROK Ratification of the Kyoto Pact
5. Cooperational Efforts for Democaracy
6. ROK-Russia Military Cooperation
7. US Tough Stance on DPRK
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. CanKor #105
The India-Pakistan Conflict – Towards The Failure Of Nuclear Deterrence
November 13, 2002 By Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian I. Introduction This essay by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian, Pakistan’s leading physicists and anti-nuclear activists, note the fundamental connection between crisis and nuclear weapons in South Asia. They argue that deterrence “presupposes a rational calculus, as well as actors who, at the height of tension, […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 12 November, 2002
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-ROK Relations
2. Japan-ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program
3. PRC DPRK Food Aid
4. DPRK Oil Shipment
5. Inter-Korean Economic Talks
6. ROK-Japan-US Talks on DPRK
7. PRC-US Relations
II. Japan 1. Japan-US Relations
2. Japan Constitutional Review
3. Japan Military Emergency Bills
4. US Bases in Okinawa
III. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK-ROK Relations
2. Japan-DPRK Relations
3. US-ROK Relations
4. PRC-Japan-ROK Relations
5. PRC’s Military Diplomacy
6. Russia-US Relations
NAPSNet Daily Report 08 November, 2002
CONTENTS
1. Powell on DPRK Regional Threat
2. DPRK on Agreed Framework
3. DPRK Japan Missile Tests
4. DPRK on Non-Aggression Treaty
5. DPRK on DPRK-Japan Normalization
6. US on DPRK Missile Threat
7. US on DPRK Nuclear Situation
8. Editorial on US-DPRK Diplomacy
9. Inter-Korean Economic Situation
10. PRC Domestic Politics
11. Cross-Straits Relations
12. Cross-Straits Direct Links
13. PRC-Canada Relations
14. Japan Domestic Economy
NAPSNet Daily Report 07 November, 2002
CONTENTS
1. PRC on Iraq Resolution
2. PRC-Mongolian Relations
3. PRC Domestic Politics
4. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Situation
5. DPRK on ROK Delegation
6. PRC-Japan Activist Deportation
7. PRC-US Relations
8. ROK-Japan-Russia Relations
9. US-Japan-ROK DPRK Diplomacy
10. Australia on DPRK Nuclear Issue
11. Inter-Korean Economic Talks
12. DPRK Asylum Seekers
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Issue
2. ROK-Russia Relations
3. Japan’s Efforts to Validate KEDO
III. Japan 1. DPRK Security Talks
2. Japan DPRK Aid
3. Japan Domestic Politics
4. DPRK Missile Pledge
5. Japan-PRC Relations
6. Japan-ASEAN Relations
Al Qaeda’s Nuclear Program: Through the Window of Seized Documents
November 6, 2002 By David Albright I. Introduction This essay by David Albright – a physicist, and the President of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C. – examines Al-Qaeda’s efforts towards acquiring weapons of mass destruction. He argues that al-Qaeda developed “only limited technological capabilities in Afghanistan to produce WMD.” However, […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 06 November, 2002
CONTENTS
1. Japan-DPRK Talks
2. DPRK-ROK Economic Talks
3. DPRK Oil Shipment
4. DPRK on Missile Moratorium
5. DPRK on DPRK-US Relations
6. DPRK on Ambassador Greg Visit
7. US-ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue
8. PRC Domestic Politics
9. PRC on Iraq
10. DPRK Oil Shipments
11. PRC Human Rights
12. Japanese Activist Deported
13. Powell ROK Trip Cancellation
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Forces Reduction
2. US Intermediary’s Visit to DPRK
3. DPRK-Japan Relations
4. US-Japan-ROK Response to DPRK
5. US Undersecretary’s Visit to Seoul
III. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC Commentary on Jiang’s visit to US and Participation in APEC
2. ROK-DPRK Relations
3. DPRK-Japan Relations
4. PRC Response to DPRK-Japan Relations
5. PRC-DPRK Relations
6. PRC-Russian Ties
7. PRC-Japan Relations
8. DPRK-US Relations
IV. CanKor E-Clipping 1. CanKor #104
Policy Forum 02-20A: Current Developments on the Korean Peninsula: Are There Grounds for Hope?
The essay below is by Professor Han Sung Joo, President of Korea University and former ROK Foreign Minister (1993-94) when the US-DPRK Agreed Framework was negotiated. Han argues that North Korea must be further embedded into relationships of deeper dependence upon the outside world, particularly South Korea, the United States and Japan. Similar to the 1994 “carrot and stick” approach by South Korea and the United States that led to the Agreed Framework, a similar strategy must be employed today, but with greater multilateral coordination.