Policy Forum 10-040: Inspector O and the SPA Music Hall

James Church is the pseudonym of is a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia. This article is a fictional conversation between himself and Inspector O, the protagonist of his novels, on the recent Supreme People’s Assembly meeting in the DPRK.

NAPSNet Daily Report 16 July, 2010

  1. I. NAPSNet
  2. US-DPRK Relations
  3. US Sanctions on the DPRK
  4. DPRK and ROK Naval Ship Sinking
  5. Inter-Korean Relations
  6. Inter-Korean Economic Relations
  7. DPRK Public Health
  8. DPRK Leadership
  9. US-ROK Joint Naval Exercises
  10. PRC on US-ROK Naval Exercise
  11. ROK Military
  12. USFJ Base Relocation
  13. Japan on UNSC Reform
  14. Japanese Nuclear Technology Exports
  15. Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation
  16. Japan Politics
  17. Sino-Japanese Relations
  18. Sino-Russian Relations
  19. Sino-Argentine Nuclear Cooepration
  20. PRC Anti-Piracy Operations
  21. PRC Migrant Labor
  22. PRC Internet Use

NAPSNet Daily Report 16 July, 2010

  1. I. NAPSNet
  2. US-DPRK Relations
  3. US Sanctions on the DPRK
  4. DPRK and ROK Naval Ship Sinking
  5. Inter-Korean Relations
  6. Inter-Korean Economic Relations
  7. DPRK Public Health
  8. DPRK Leadership
  9. US-ROK Joint Naval Exercises
  10. PRC on US-ROK Naval Exercise
  11. ROK Military
  12. USFJ Base Relocation
  13. Japan on UNSC Reform
  14. Japanese Nuclear Technology Exports
  15. Japan-India Nuclear Cooperation
  16. Japan Politics
  17. Sino-Japanese Relations
  18. Sino-Russian Relations
  19. Sino-Argentine Nuclear Cooepration
  20. PRC Anti-Piracy Operations
  21. PRC Migrant Labor
  22. PRC Internet Use

Policy Forum 10-039: Rush to Judgment: Inconsistencies in South Korea’s Cheonan Report

Seunghun Lee, Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia, and J.J. Suh, Director of Korea Studies at Johns Hopkins University, write, “An investigation that is as thorough, objective, and scientific as humanly possible is needed to get to the bottom of the Cheonan incident to discover the cause and perpetrator. After all, forty six lives have been lost, and peace and security of Korea and Northeast Asia is at stake. The dead sailors deserve such a report. So does the international community.”