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.
Rudiger Frank, Professor of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna, an Adjunct Professor at Korea University, and Director of the Vienna School of Governance, writes, “The current South Korean efforts at the rehabilitation of the North’s economy and transportation networks, combined with a future relaxation of international trade and investment restrictions and a relaxed, open-minded government in Pyongyang might be just what the trading women at North Korea’s markets need when they are praying for more customers.”
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Mark J. Valencia, a maritime security analyst in Kaneohe, Hawaii and Nautilus Institute Senior Associate, writes: “This spat may be the tip of an iceberg that expands into freedom of navigation issues and deepens the growing rift in already brittle relations. Both nations should tread lightly and sort out their differences through negotiations less they open a Pandora’s Box of maritime controversies.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report 10 December, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report 10 December, 2007 Contents in this Issue: I. Napsnet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program 2. Six-Party Talks 3. ROK Aid to DPRK 4. US-DPRK Relations 5. DPRK Removal From Terrorism List 6. Inter-Korean Military Talks 7. Inter-Korean Rail Link 8. Reunions of Separated Families 9. DPRK-ASEAN Relations […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report 7 December, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report 7 December, 2007 Contents in this Issue: I. NAPSNet 1. ROK on Six Party Talks 2. DPRK Nuclear Program 3. US-DPRK Relations 4. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 5. US on Korean Peace Treaty 6. ROK Politics 7. DPRK Abductions of Japanese 8. Sino-Japanese Relations 9. Japan SDF […]
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Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History at the Australian National University and author of Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War, writes, “With the departure of the Abe administration and the creation of the Fukuda administration, the time is ripe for a new, more flexible and much more wide-reaching approach to break the deadlock in Japan-North Korea relations.”
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