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.
Lim Eul-chul, Research Professor at Kyungnam University, writes “no one should be blindly optimistic about the upcoming summit, but if any agreements develop as a result of the meeting, it would mean qualitative development of inter-Korean relations. It would also mean the prospect of huge opportunities in the future for entrepreneurs trying to find a way into North Korean markets, as business with North Korea is already progressing by leaps and bounds.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 04, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 04, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK Working Group Meeting 2. DPRK Flood Aid 3. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 4. ROK Diploma Fraud 5. Japan SDF Indian Ocean Mission 6. Japan Government 7. PRC Cyberattack 8. PRC Judiciary 9. PRC Environment Preceding NAPSNet Report I. […]
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I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Nuclear Program Agence France-Presse (“NKOREA AGREES TO DECLARE, DISABLE NUCLEAR PROGRAMMES”, 2007-10-03) reported that the DPRK has agreed to declare all its nuclear programmes and disable its main atomic reactor by the end of the year under US supervision, according to a six-nation agreement. As part of the second phase, the […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 03, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 03, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. US-DPRK Working Group Meeting 2. Japan-DPRK Working Group Meeting 3. DPRK Flood Aid 4. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 5. Japan Leadership 6. Japan on PRC Military 7. PRC Military 8. Quadrilateral Initiative Drill Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet […]
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Alexandre Y. Mansourov, Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and a specialist in Northeast Asian security, politics, and economics, focusing primarily on the Korean Peninsula, writes, “North Korea is an evolved system (not a designed system). Its disaster management mechanisms are a good example of a typical crisis-driven institutional evolution. As such, this system is dynamically stable… It can undergo sudden state changes but then display robust recovery from catastrophic events, as one has been able to witness during the past two decades. The question remains open: Is there a tipping point for such a complex, dynamically stable system like North Korea’s?”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 31, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, August 31, 2007 I, ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. Inter-Korean Summit Agenda 3. Policy Toward the DPRK and Northeast Asia 4. ROK-US Military Alliance 5. Northern Limit Line Preceding NAPSNet Report I, ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction Introduction (“ROK Weekly Report”, 2007-08-31) This […]
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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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