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.
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 30, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 30, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK Working Group Meeting 2. DPRK Flood Aid 3. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 4. US-ROK Trade Relations 5. Japan-PRC Relations 6. PRC Climate Change 7. PRC Leadership 8. Report # 290 Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 29, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 29, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Energy Aid 2. Inter-Korean Summit 3. Japan-DPRK Working Group Meeting 4. DPRK on US-ROK Military Exercise 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. ROK Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal 7. Japan Missile Defense 8. Japan Military 9. Japan-EU Trade Relations […]
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Leon V. Sigal, Director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project in New York and author of /Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea/, writes that “for South Koreans to make the most of this second summit meeting, they must begin by appreciating its real significance as an opportunity to advance reconciliation with North Korea, which is the only way to end its nuclear ambitions and bring about much-needed change in the North.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 28, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, August 28, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK Working Group Meeting 2. Japan-DPRK Working Group Meeting 3. Inter-Korean Summit 4. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. US-ROK Trade Relations 7. ROK-ASEAN Trade Relations 8. Japan Cabinet Shuffle 9. Japan SDF Indian Ocean […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 27, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, August 27, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Border Fence 2. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 3. DPRK Arirang Festival 4. DPRK Floods 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Japan Cabinet Reshuffle 7. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission 8. Japan, PRC Space Programs 9. US on PRC […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 24, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 24, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. Changing Stance on Summit 3. Postpone Summit Till After Election 4. Korean Peninsula Issues Can’t Wait 5. Roh Policy a Failure 6. International Cooperation on DPRK 7. Denuclearize, Open Economy, 3000 8. Ambiguities in […]
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Tetsuya Endo, former vice chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of Japan, writes, “Japan has the technology to develop nuclear weapons and, with the relevant legal revisions, Japan could actually embark on a nuclear weapons development program… However, it would require huge commitments of manpower, material and money, and it would not be so easy to change the persisting popular anti-nuclear sentiment. More importantly, a nuclear-armed Japan would face severe isolation from the international community. Given all these grave risks, it is clear that the nuclear option is surely not in the national interest of Japan and far from a realistic policy choice.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 23, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, August 23, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. ROK on NLL Maritime Border 2. DPRK Refugee-Defectors 3. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 4. Japan-India Relations 5. Bay of Bengal Naval Drill 6. US on PRC Military 7. SCO Energy Cooperation 8. US-PRC Trade Relations 9. PRC Media […]
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Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, writes, “If Roh presses for a North Korean commitment to tangible progress toward denuclearization by the year’s end, then a North-South summit will be a useful adjunct to the Six-Party Talks. It is more likely, however, that the meeting will provide only a patina of progress, and it could actually endanger multilateral efforts to pressure Pyongyang to divest itself of its nuclear weapons.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 22, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, August 22, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK on Nuclear Programme 2. DPRK-US Normalization Talks 3. Inter-Korean Military Relations 4. ROK Abductees 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Japan-ROK Economic Relations 7. Japan-India Relations 8. Japan MSDF Indian Ocean Mission 9. Shanghai Cooperation Organization 10. […]
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