This essay analyzes breaking news that the United States holds the DPRK to be in “material breach” of its promise to not develop nuclear weapons. It reviews what the DPRK might be doing with uranium enrichment and concludes that there is no innocent explanation. It speculates that the DPRK might have aimed to force the United States to resume dialogue. Alternately, it might have been developing a clandestine nuclear weapons capacity for long run strategic value in the face of its degraded conventional military forces. Finally, the essay states that the Agreed Framework has been dead for some time, but that short of war, it is inevitable that eventually the DPRK and the United States create a new cooperative framework.
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NAPSNet Daily Report 16 October, 2002
NAPSNet Daily Report 15 October, 2002
CONTENTS
1. Japanese Abduction Return
2. DPRK-ROK Railway Development
3. US Missile Defense Development
4. PRC on Iraq Arms Inspection
5. PRC Taiwan Defection
6. PRC-UN Relations
7. PRC AIDS Crisis
8. Taiwan PRC Spy Ship
9. Cross-Straits Relations
10. PRC on Carter Nobel Peace Prize
11. Inter-Korean Relations
NAPSNET Week in Review 11 October 2002
Republic of Korea 1. DPRK on SEZ Chief The DPRK has worked out a compromise with the PRC to sack Chinese-born Dutch businessman Yang Bin from his post of governor of the DPRK’s fledgling capitalist enclave. The deal was aimed at defusing a diplomatic row as DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il plans to visit Beijing this […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 11 October, 2002
NAPSNet Daily Report 10 October, 2002
NAPSNet Daily Report 09 October, 2002
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Japanese Abduction Issue
2. DPRK-ROK Railway Development
3. PRC-US Defense Contracts
4. Japan Domestic Economy
5. Japan Nobel Prize Winners
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK-US Relations
2. DPRK Capitalist Zone Chief Under House Arrest
3. ROK Fruits Export to US Forces
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #100
2. CanKor Funding
NAPSNET Week in Review 8 November, 2002
United States 1. Smallpox Possession US intelligence believes four nations other than the US – Iraq, the DPRK, Russia and France – probably possess hidden supplies of the smallpox virus, a US official said. Al-Qaida is also believed to have sought samples of smallpox to use as a weapon, but US officials don’t believe the […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 08 October, 2002
CONTENTS
1. DPRK SEZ Chief Investigation
2. Taiwan-US Military Intelligence
3. Japan-US-ROK DPRK Summit
4. ROK DPRK Secret Fund Allegations
5. ROK Intelligence Officer Dismissal
6. DPRK-Japan Abduction List
7. UN reaction on DPRK-US Talks
8. DPRK on DPRK-US Talks
9. ROK Domestic Political Economy
10. ROK-DPRK Relations
II. Republic of Korea 1. Yang Bin’s Arrest for Corruption
2. DPRK Military Reduction
3. DPRK Asylum Seekers
4. Inter-Korean Meeting on Separated Family
III. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC-Russia Relations
2. US-DPRK Relations
3. PRC Commentary on US-DPRK Relations
4. PRC-US Relations
5. US, Japan and ROK Ties with DPRK
6. Japan-DPRK Relations
NAPSNET Weekly Report 4 October 2002
United States 1. US Congress on PRC Human Rights The US Congress urged President George W. Bush to impose new pressure on the PRC over its human rights record, in a new report which top senators claimed pulled no punches. The report was the first issued by the Congressional Executive Commission on the PRC, established […]