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.
Donald G. Gross, Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council of the United States, Asia Programs, in Washington, DC, writes, “As the dominant country in the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. faces a crucial strategic choice: it can use its superior diplomatic, political, military and economic power to negotiate a historic Framework Agreement with China that achieves a fundamental shift in the paradigm of U.S.-China relations. Or, to the contrary, the U.S. can narrowly focus on protecting its domestic market and bolstering its military presence in East Asia in expectation of an inevitable conflict with China.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 30, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 30, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Transfer of DPRK Frozen Funds 2. PRC on Japan-DPRK Relations 3. Inter-Korean Relations 4. DPRK-India Relations 5. DPRK Missiles 6. DPRK Defector-Refugee Hunger Strike 7. US-ROK Trade Relations 8. Japan Middle-East Diplomacy 9. US Military Sales to Japan […]
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Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, authors of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform, write, “While we welcome the February 13 agreement, ongoing conflicts over implementation underline that it was a first step only. We are still far from either resolving the North Korea’s chronic food emergency or successfully denuclearizing of the Korean peninsula.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 26, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 26, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Funds Transfer Issues 2. US-DPRK Talks on Six Party Agreement 3. DPRK Off US Arms Trade Blacklist 4. DPRK Military Celebration 5. DPRK Defector-Refugee Hunger Strike 6. ROK Trade 7. USFK Base Realignment 8. ROK-Japan Joint History […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 25, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, April 25, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Funds Transfer Issues 2. US-DPRK Talks on Six Party Agreement 3. DPRK Off US Arms Trade Blacklist 4. DPRK Military Celebration 5. DPRK Defector-Refugee Hunger Strike 6. ROK Trade 7. USFK Base Realignment 8. ROK-Japan Joint History […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 24, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, April 24, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Visit to BDA 2. US-DPRK Relations 3. ROK Aid to DPRK 4. Foreign Investment in Kaesong 5. UNDP Audit of DPRK Ops 6. ROK-PRC Miliary Relations 7. US-Japan Air Drills 8. Japan MSDF Mission 9. Cross Strait […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 23, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, April 23, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks Diplomacy 2. PRC DPRK Oil Exports 3. ROK Aid to DPRK 4. Lefkowitz on DPRK Human Rights 5. DPRK IT Infrastructure 6. Inter-Korean IT Cooperation 7. DPRK Cabinet Shuffle 8. ROK-PRC Military Relations 9. ROK-Canada […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 13, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Friday, April 13, 2007 I. ROK Weekly Report 1. ROK Weekly Introduction 2. Ball in DPRK’s Court 3. US Leaves ROK on Our Own 4. Process Unnecessarily Rushed 5. Denuclearization Prospects Brighten 6. US Surrenders to DPRK 7. How Will DPRK Respond? 8. $25,000 Not […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 12, 2007 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, April 12, 2007 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. US on Frozen DRPK Funds 3. IAEA on DPRK Inspections 4. DPRK Premier Election 5. US-ROK Trade Relations 6. ROK Iraq Role 7. Sino-Japanese Relations 8. USFJ Troop Realignment Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet […]
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Jae-Jean Suh, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, writes, “it is highly unlikely that North Korea will refuse to integrate into the capitalist world system that other socialist nations had selected and continue to persist with its acquisition of nuclear weapons, thereby further sustaining its Cold War isolation, but would rather make a strategic choice of abolishing its nuclear weapons.”
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