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.
Scott Bruce, Program Officer at the San Francisco Office of the Nautilus Institute, and Timothy Savage, Deputy Director of the Seoul Office of the Nautilus Institute, write, “If the experience of the last six years teaches anything, it is that the United States cannot carry out an effective policy toward the DPRK without the active participation of the ROK. Future American policymakers thus would be well advised to take note; the ship of engagement has already set sail, and it would be best to ride alongside, rather than be caught in the wake.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 26, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 26, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. ASEAN on DPRK 2. DPRK on US Nuclear Plan 3. Japan on Pakistan-DPRK Nuclear Cooperation 4. Inter-Korean Military Talks 5. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 6. Japan Defense 7. Japan Elections 8. PRC Anti-Corruption Measures Preceding NAPSNet Report I. […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 25, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 25, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK Fuel Shipment to DPRK 3. US-DPRK Talks on Family Reunions 4. Inter-Korean Military Talks 5. DPRK Smoking Ban 6. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 7. Japan Defense 8. Japan Environment 9. Japan Nuclear Plant […]
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Umebayashi Hiromichi, Founder and President of Peace Depot, a non-profit organization for peace research and education in Japan, writes, “These operations by US naval vessels homeported in Yokosuka tasked with ballistic missile defence of the US itself is an absolutely new development, one not provided for under the Japan-USA Mutual Security Treaty. This matter must be fully discussed from the point of view of control of military activities by law in both the international and national spheres.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 24, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, July 24, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK-Japan Relations 2. Inter-Korean Relations and Humour 3. Fatal Collapse in DPRK 4. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 5. ROK-US Trade Relations 6. ROK-Russia Trade Relations 7. Japan Nuclear Plant 8. Japan-Australian Defense Relations 9. Japan Elections 10. Cross […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, July 23, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, July 23, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Kim on Six Party Talks 2. Inter-Korean Military Relations 3. DPRK-Mongolia Relations 4. ROK Hostages in Afghanistan 5. ROK-EU Trade Relations 6. Japan Nuclear Plant 7. Japan Elections 8. Japan Defense 9. Cross Strait Relations 10. Shanghai Cooperation […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, July 20, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, July 20, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. Introduction 2. IAEA Inspections 3. Peace Agreement 4. Clearing up HEU Problem 5. Revocation of UN Sanctions on DPRK 6. Change of Current 7. ROK Stuck between US and China 8. ROK Should Take It Slowly […]
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Hajime Izumi, Professor at the University of Shizuoka in Japan and Katsuhisa Furukawa, a research fellow at the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, write, “Thus, the consensus in Japan today favors continued reliance on the Japanese-U.S. alliance, the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and missile defense to negate North Korea’s nuclear capability…The focus is to examine what type of bilateral mechanism may be appropriate to conduct regularized dialogue with the United States on nuclear strategy issues, whether in official or unofficial channels, and what agenda Japan may want to discuss as well as what type of information the United States may want to share with Japan under what conditions.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 19, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, July 19, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. DPRK on Japan at Six Party Talks 3. DPRK-Russia Rail Link 4. PRC on DPRK Asylum Seekers 5. Inter-Korean Relations 6. ROK Veterans on GNP DPRK Policy 7. EU-ROK Trade Relations 8. Japan Earthquake […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 18, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, July 18, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. IAEA on DPRK Nuclear Shutdown 2. Inside DPRK 3. EU-ROK Trade Relations 4. ROK Defense Industry 5. Japan Earthquake 6. PRC on Shanghai Cooperation Organization Drill 7. Cross Strait Relations 8. PRC Government Criticism 9. PRC Media Control […]
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