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NAPSNet Daily Report 03 October, 2002
NAPSNet Daily Report 02 October, 2002
Koizumi and Kim Jong-Il: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Koizumi and Kim Jong-Il: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst NAPSNet Policy Forum, September, 2002 Victor Cha I. INTRODUCTION This short piece on the meaning and implications behind Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi’s upcoming historical trip to North Korea is by Professor Victor Cha of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Cha asserts that […]
NAPSNet Daily Report 30 September, 2002
CONTENTS
1. Inter-Korean Relations: Asian Games
2. DPRK Passenger Boat ROK Arrival
3. DPRK US Envoy Announcement
4. UN Drop in DPRK humanitarian Aid
5. PRC on UN Iraq Resolution
6. PRC-Japan 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties
7. Japan Cabinet Reshuffle
II. Republic of Korea 1. Inter Korean Sports Exchange
2. Restriction of South Koreans to Sinuiju
3. DPRK and IMF
4. James Kelly’s Visit to DPRK
5. US Comment on DPRK
6. DPRK and IAEA
III. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC-DPRK Relations
2. DPRK-ROK Relations
3. US-DPRK Relations
4. PRC Attitude towards Korean Peninsula Development
5. Japan-US Relations
6. Russian Security Policy
7. Across Taiwan Straits Relations
8. PRC-Japan Relations
IV. Japan 1. Japanese Logistic Support for US
2. Japanese Nuclear Industry Scandal
NAPSNet Daily Report 27 September, 2002
CONTENTS
1. DPRK-US Relations
2. ROK on DPRK Secret Money Deal
3. DPRK-US Diplomatic Meeting
4. Japan-DPRK Abduction Issues
5. PRC “Information Warfare” Development
6. PRC-Taiwan on Falun Gong
7. ROK US Protest
8. Japan Cabinet Reshuffle
9. PRC RF Espionage
II. Japan 1. Japanese Logistical Support for US
2. Japanese Military Emergency Bill
3. Nuclear Energy Development
4. Japan Nuclear Industry Scandal
5. DPJ’s Leader Election
6. Voting Rights For Foreigners
NAPSNet Daily Report 26 September, 2002
CONTENTS
1. PRC-US Naval Collision
2. ROK-DPRK Secret Fund
3. DPRK-US Relations
4. Cross-Straits Espionage
5. ROK-DPRK Flag Issue
6. ROK on DPRK-US Relations
7. PRC on US Electronic Dumping
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK’s Economic Change
2. Inter Korean Direct Flight Connection
3. Inter Korean Economic Trade
4. East Asian Regional Peace
5. DPRK’s Call for Technology
NAPSNet Daily Report 24 September, 2002
CONTENTS
1. Three Gorges Dam
2. Philippines-PRC Relations
3. PRC Muslim Uighur Crackdown
4. DPRK Japanese Kidnapping Issue
5. Japan Koizumi Approval Ratings
6. DPRK Nuclear Inspections
7. Asian Games DPRK Athletes
8. Inter-Korean Parliamentary Talks
9. DPRK-PRC Capitalism
10. Sea of Japan Mapping Issues
11. Japan and ROK on DPRK-US Relations
12. PRC World Military Cruise
II. Japan 1. Japan Nuclear Industry Scandal
2. Japan-RF Relations
III. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Special Economic Zone
2. ROK, Japan Cooperation for US-DPRK Talks
3. US-DPRK Relations
4. Japan’s Economic Aid to DPRK
IV. CanKor E-Clipping 1. CanKor # 99
Policy Forum 02-03A: Koizumi and Kim Jong-Il: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
This short piece on the meaning and implications behind Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi’s upcoming historical trip to North Korea is by Professor Victor Cha of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Cha asserts that while Koizumi’s trip to North Korea this month appears to be a positive development aimed at reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula and a step toward convincing the Bush administration’s skeptics to press forward with engagement, the mission could end up reinforcing hawk perceptions in Washington that engagement with the DPRK is a necessary, albeit, fruitless exercise, doomed for failure. Professor Cha is also director of the American Alliances in Asia Project at Georgetown University
Policy Forum 04-08A: Violence, Legitimacy and the Future of Japanese and American Multilateralism February 5, 2004 By Yoshikazu Sakamoto
The essay below is by Yoshikazu Sakamoto who is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University. Sakamoto argues that the United States occupation of Iraq is not true democratization. Democracy in Iraq will only take root through autonomous opposition to the occupation. Postwar democracy in Japan was not a direct consequence of democratization from above but through spontaneous opposition to the policy of the anti-communist occupation force. The administrations of the U.S. and Japan need to learn from this paradoxical lesson.
This is a slightly revised version of the article appeared in The Japan Times, January 1, 2004.