CONTENTS
1. ROK-Russian Summit
2. US Policy on DPRK
3. Alleged PRC-Iraq Defense Cooperation
4. PRC Human Rights
5. Cross-Straits Relations
6. US-Japan Submarine Accident
II. Republic of Korea 1. ROK-Russia Summit
2. Russian Arms Sales to ROK
3. ROK-US Military Trade
4. Status of Forces Agreement
5. Inter-Korean High-level Talks
6. DPRK-German Talks
CONTENTS
1. ROK-Russian Summit
2. Light-Water Reactor Project
3. Reunion of Separated Families
4. ROK-DPRK Talks
5. DPRK Situation
6. DPRK-Japan Talks
7. US Troops on Okinawa
8. Japan-US Submarine Incident
9. Alleged PRC Missile Sales
10. PRC Report on US Human Rights
11. PRC Accession to WTO
II. Republic of Korea 1. Inter-Korean Working Talks
2. DPRK-New Zealand Ties
3. Inter-Korean Summit
4. ROK-Russia Summit
5. Russian Arms Sales to ROK
6. US Missile Sales to ROK
III. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK-US Relations
2. PRC-US Relations
3. PRC-US Disputes Over Iraq
4. PRC-Russian Relations
5. PRC and NMD
6. US-Russian NMD Talks
7. US Troops in Japan
8. Taiwan Question
Nuclear Weapons 1. US Nuclear Program Kenneth Bergeron writes in the current issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Atomic Scientists that since the last tritium-producing nuclear reactor in the US was shut down in 1988, the US Department of Energy has debated where to renew its supply of tritium, which will be exhausted by 2016. […]
CONTENTS
1. Light-Water Reactor Project
2. Russia-ROK Summit
3. Reunion of Separated Families
4. Japanese Atrocities During World War II
5. US Bases in Okinawa
6. US Policy toward PRC
7. PRC-Russia Missile Defense Cooperation
II. Republic of Korea 1. Light-Water Reactor Project
2. DPRK Missile Issue
3. US Policy toward DPRK
4. DPRK Reaction to US Policy
5. ROK Reaction to US Policy
6. US-ROK Summit
7. ROK-Russia Summit
8. Reunion of Separated Families
9. Taiwan Nuclear Waste Shipment to DPRK
10. ROK Study on DPRK
11. ROK Aid to DPRK
12. DPRK Mission to Italy
13. DPRK Protest to Japan
III. Japan 1. Kim Jong-il’s Russian Visit
2. ROK-DPRK Summit
3. Japanese-Russian Territorial Issue
4. Theater Missile Defense
5. US Troops on Okinawa
6. Japanese Politics
Korea 1. US Korean Policy ROK officials said that US experts in Korean affairs attended seminars on US-ROK relations under the new US administration and met with ROK officials to discuss issues on the DPRK. “US Korean Policy” (NAPSNet Daily Report, February 21, ROK) Charles Kartman, US special envoy for Korean peace, arrived in Seoul […]
CONTENTS
1. US-Japan Summit
2. Alleged PRC Aid to Iraq
3. Russia-PRC Talks
II. Republic of Korea 1. US Korean Policy
III. Russian Federation 1. DPRK-ROK Summit
2. DPRK Leader’s Birthday
3. RF-ROK Summit
4. RF-PRC Military Cooperation
5. RF-PRC Economic Cooperation
6. RF Migration from PRC
7. RF-Taiwan Relations
8. RF-US-Taiwan Nuclear Waste Deal
9. Alleged RF Violation of Japanese Airspace
10. Japanese Political Situation
11. RF Arms Exports
12. Alleged RF Proliferation
Missile Defense 1. US Statements on Missile Defense The White House released the text of the statement by US President George W. Bush to military personnel on February 13, 2001. In his speech, Bush focused on the role NATO has played in global security and of the new technologies needed to meet new threats, specifically […]
This essay is by Daniel A. Pinkston, a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. This is the second in a series on the future of US relations with Northeast Asian countries under the administration of incoming US President George W. Bush. Pinkston argues that among the first steps the Bush administration must take is to specify its position on the 1994 Agreed Framework, negotiated with the DPRK under former President Bill Clinton, and then state its position on the deal nearly negotiated by Clinton to end the DPRK’s missile program. Pinkston states that the US must support the DPRK’s current reform policies if it is to combat proliferation of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems in Northeast Asia.
This essay is by Leon V. Sigal, Director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council and author of “Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea.” This is the third in a series on the future of US relations with Northeast Asian countries under the administration of incoming US President George W. Bush. Sigal argues that the proposed US missile defense system is too far off to protect the United States from a possible DPRK missile attack, and, therefore, it is in the US interest to conclude a deal to terminate the DPRK’s missile program. Sigal outlines six myths, which he argues have prevented the conclusion of such a missile deal.
