CONTENTS
1. DPRK-PRC Talks
2. French-DPRK Talks
3. New Sino-US Missile Defense Policy
4. Reactions to New Sino-US Missile Defense Policy
5. Sino-US Military Relations
6. PRC Arms Transfer to Pakistan
7. PRC Focus on National Security
II. Republic of Korea 1. KEDO Director to Visit Koreas
2. ROK to Propose Inter-Korean Ministerial Talks
3. PRC-DPRK Summit
4. DPRK Proposes Inter-Korean Talks
Korea 1. DPRK-PRC Talks The PRC and the DPRK announced on August 27 that PRC President Jiang Zemin will pay an “official goodwill visit” to the DPRK from September 3-5 at the invitation of DPRK leader Kim Jong-il. No agenda details were provided. Diplomatic sources said, however, that the two leaders are likely to focus […]
CONTENTS
1. Trilateral Coordination Meeting
2. US Military Deployments in Asia
3. Former US Official’s Guilty Plea
4. PRC Missile Tests
5. PRC-Japan Relations
6. UN Views on US Missile Defense
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK-Russia Loan Talks
2. ROK-DPRK Civic Group Talks
3. DPRK-PRC Summit
4. Russian Expert’s View on DPRK
CONTENTS
1. DPRK Famine and Food Aid
2. Global Military Spending
3. Japanese Prime Minister’s Tour of Asia
4. Smuggling of Encryption Devices into PRC
II. Republic of Korea 1. Inter-Korean Talks
2. DPRK Ideological Education
3. Meeting between FAO and DPRK
4. Russian View on DPRK
5. DPRK on Civilian Exchange
The following essay was contributed by Katsuhisa Furukawa, a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Amiko Nobori, a Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University.
CONTENTS
1. US-DPRK Relations
2. DPRK Famine
3. ROK-Japan Relations
4. Japanese Rocket Launch
5. PRC-US Relations
6. Cross-Strait Relations
7. US Missile Defense
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK-PRC Talks
III. Russian Federation 1. Former ROK Soldier’s Escape from DPRK
2. RF Pacific Fleet Exercises
3. RF-PRC Relations
CONTENTS
1. ROK 1948 Massacre
2. PRC Missile Deployment
3. US-Taiwan Relations
4. Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation
II. Republic of Korea 1. UN Nutrition Survey in DPRK
2. Kim Jong-il’s Field Inspection
3. DPRK Relations with US
III. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC-DPRK Relations
2. PRC-Russian Relations
3. US Port Visit to Hong Kong
4. PRC-US Counter-proliferation Talks
5. US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
6. US Preparations on NMD
CONTENTS
1. Jiang Zemin’s DPRK Visit
2. ROK-DPRK Water Rights
3. US-ROK Military Exercises
4. US Policy toward DPRK
5. ROK History Textbooks
6. ROK, PRC Relations with Japan
7. US-PRC Maritime Talks
8. Cross-Straits Economic Relations
9. US Missile Defense
II. Republic of Korea 1. Jiang Zemin’s DPRK Visit
2. ROK Fighter Program
Korea 1. US-DPRK Talks The DPRK said that the “unilateral” US decision to add new agenda items is holding up the resumption of talks, and it called on US President George W. Bush to return to an “identical” posture as that of former President Bill Clinton. “US-DPRK Talks” (Daily Report, August 24, US) “US-DPRK Talks” […]
