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NAPSNet Daily Report 27 September, 1999

CONTENTS

1. US-DPRK Relations
2. US-DPRK-Japan Policy Coordination
3. Japan-DPRK Relations
4. US-Japan Military Exercises
5. PRC-Taiwan Relations
6. PRC-US Military Relations
7. Russia-PRC Naval Exercises
8. PRC-Russia-India Axis
9. US Nuclear Weapons Agency
10. Nuclear Disarmament

II. Republic of Korea

1. DPRK Missile Test
2. DPRK Response to US Sanctions Lifting
3. DPRK-US Relations
4. Perry’s Visit to ROK
5. Former DPRK Vice President Dies
6. DPRK Food Situation
7. DPRK-ROK Cultural Exchange
8. ROK National Assembly Vote on East Timor Peacekeeping
9. ROK Participation in East Timor Peacekeeping

NAPSNet Daily Report 24 September, 1999

CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Missile Test
2. Taiwan Earthquake
3. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Policy Forum 99-07C: Seizing Opportunity in North Korea

This essay was contributed by Jon Brook Wolfsthal, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, DC, and a former official of the US Department of Energy. This article was originally published in the Christian Science Monitor on September 21, 1999. Wolfstahl argues that the recent Berlin agreement between the US and the DPRK represents an opportunity to improve US-DPRK relations. He faults the Clinton administration for only concentrating on the DPRK when it takes provocative actions, and argues that, to prevent future tension, the US should move ahead to improve relations as it promised to do in 1994.

NAPSNet Daily Report 23 September, 1999

CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Missile Test
2. DPRK Leader Dies
3. Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations
4. Taiwan Earthquake
5. Bombing of PRC Embassy
6. Alleged PRC Espionage
7. PRC Entrance to WTO
8. Remains of US Servicemen from World War II
9. PRC View of UN Military Role
10. PRC Military Commission
11. PRC Tourism in Japan
12. South Asian Nuclear Arms Race

II. Australia

1. East Timor

III. Announcements

1. Luncheon Discussion on Korea

NAPSNet Daily Report 22 September, 1999

CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Missile Test Ban
2. Perry’s Visit to ROK
3. DPRK Human Rights
4. ROK-DPRK Cultural Exchange
5. Taiwan Earthquake
6. US Policy toward PRC
7. PRC Entrance to WTO
8. Japanese Atrocities in World War II
9. US Nuclear Agency
10. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

II. Republic of Korea

1. US-DPRK Economic Exchange
2. DPRK Defectors in ROK
3. ROK Peacekeeping Force to East Timor

III. People’s Republic of China

1. US-DPRK Relations
2. ROK-DPRK Relations
3. Japan-DPRK Relations
4. PRC View on US Lifting of DPRK Sanctions
5. Taiwan Earthquake
6. Lee Teng-hui’s “Two States” Remarks
7. Taiwan’s Entry into UN
8. PRC Nuclear Industry

East Timor and the “Disintegration” of Indonesia

September 21, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Sylvia Tiwon, Professor of Indonesia at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. It is also available on the Berkeley Indonesia Forum website at: http://www.bi-forum.org/opedtiwon.htm A guide […]

East Timor and Australia- Twenty-five years of the policy debate

September 21, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by James Cotton of the Australian Defence Force Academy. A guide to all NAPSNet East Timor Special Reports is available online at: http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/sr/East_Timor/index.html ———————————– INTRODUCTION East Timor and Australia- twenty-five years of the […]

Policy Forum 99-07B: The Road from Berlin

This essay was contributed by Nicholas Eberstadt, a researcher with the American Enterprise Institute and author of the forthcoming book, “The End of North Korea.” A version of this essay ran in the Chosun Ilbo on September 13. Eberstadt argues that the recent US-DPRK agreement is unlikely to lead to an opening of relations and an end of the DPRK’s missile program. He notes that for the DPRK to open up to outside trade and investment would go against its ruling philosophy. He also argues that the DPRK sees missile and nuclear development as vital to its national interests, and thus is unlikely to trade them for better relations with the US.

NAPSNet Daily Report 21 September, 1999

CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US Sanctions on DPRK
2. US-DPRK Agricultural Trade
3. ROK Missile Development
4. Earthquake in Taiwan
5. Japanese Election

II. Republic of Korea

1. DPRK-US Talks
2. PRC’s Role on DPRK Missile Test
3. US View on Berlin Talks
4. ROK Missile Development
5. KEDO Meeting
6. ROK-DPRK Economic Cooperation
7. DPRK Defector
8. ROK Peacekeeping Force for East Timor

III. Russian Federation

1. PRC Missile Sales to Pakistan
2. PRC Anniversary
3. PRC Internet Development
4. RF Far East Military Exercises

NAPSNet Daily Report 20 September, 1999

CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US-DPRK Agreement
2. US Sanctions on DPRK
3. Prospects for US-DPRK Trade
4. US Policy toward DPRK
5. ROK-DPRK Relations
6. 1994 DPRK Nuclear Crisis
7. Japanese View of US-DPRK Deal
8. DPRK Economy
9. ROK-DPRK Economic Cooperation
10. ROK-Japan Relations
11. US Military in Japan
12. Taiwan Elections
13. Alleged Pakistan Nuclear Espionage

II. Republic of Korea

1. ROK-DPRK Relations
2. US Sanctions Against DPRK
3. US Policy toward DPRK
4. Perry’s Visit to ROK
5. Implementation of Agreed Framework
6. DPRK-ROK Maritime Border
7. DPRK Foreign Minister’s Speech at CFR
8. DPRK-PRC Diplomatic Relations
9. ROK Opposition Leader visits Germany
10. ROK Detainees in PRC
11. ROK Participation in East Timor Peacekeeping
12. ROK Views on Peacekeeping Force
13. ROK Citizens in Indonesia