Daily Report Archives
Established in December 1993, the Nautilus Institute’s *N*ortheast *A*sia *P*eace and *S*ecurity *N*etwork (NAPSNet) Daily Report served thousands of readers in more than forty countries, including policy makers, diplomats, aid organizations, scholars, donors, activists, students, and journalists.
The NAPSNet Daily Report aimed to serve a community of practitioners engaged in solving the complex security and sustainability issues in the region, especially those posed by the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program and the threat of nuclear war in the region. It was distributed by email rom 1993-1997, and went on-line in December 1997, which is when the archive on this site begins. The format at that time can be seen here.
However, for multiple reasons—the rise of instantaneous news services, the evolution of the North Korea and nuclear issues, the increasing demand for specialized and synthetic analysis of these and related issues, and the decline in donor support for NAPSNet—the Institute stopped producing the Daily Report news summary service as of December 17, 2010.
Siegfried S. Hecker, Professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, and William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense from 1994 through 1997, write, “in its remaining months, the Bush administration should focus on limiting North Korea’s nuclear capabilities by concluding the elimination of plutonium production. If it can also get answers on the Syrian operation and resolve the question of uranium enrichment, it will put the next administration in a stronger position to finally end the nuclear threat from North Korea.”
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Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in Missile Defense and Non-Proliferation in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade The U.S. Department of State released this report on May 9th detailing recent developments in the Six Party Talks process. The report notes, “Eight out of 11 agreed disablement activities at the three core facilities have been completed. Work on disablement activities continues… These actions have halted the DPRK’s ability to produce additional weapons-grade plutonium for its nuclear weapons program.”
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James L. Schoff, Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at IFPA, Charles M. Perry, Vice President and Director of Studies at IFPA, and Jacquelyn K. Davis, Executive Vice President of IFPA, write, “Building a multilateral response for future stability in East Asia is not a way for the United States, or China, or any other country to abdicate responsibility for North Korea’s nuclear challenge. In fact, it is the growing convergence of interests amongst the countries involved (particularly between China and the United States) to strengthen regional and global non-proliferation norms that could potentially bind the nations of Northeast Asia closer together on security issues, rather than divide them into two separate camps.”
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