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.
Siegfried S. Hecker, researcher at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, writes, “My general impression is that the Oct. 9, 2006 nuclear test, which followed DPRK’s Feb.10, 2005 announcement of having manufactured nuclear weapons, will make it much more difficult to convince the DPRK to give up its nuclear weapons… The prevalent view we found in China, with which I concur, is that the United States must demonstrably address DPRK’s security before there is any hope of denuclearization.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 15, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 15, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Budget for Inter-Korean Cooperation 3. DPRK Scarlet Fever Outbreak 4. US-ROK Relations 5. ROK-Japan Trade Relations 6. Japan on Nuclear Weapons 7. Japan Wartime Labor Lawsuits 8. PRC-Japan East Sea Territorial Dispute 9. US-PRC […]
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Leon V. Sigal., director of the Northeast Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York and author of “Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea“, writes, “Will President Bush give Kim Jong-il — and himself — a similar face-saving way out? He could start by urging banks that have frozen North Korea’s hard currency accounts to release the proceeds of its legitimate trade and then engage in sustained diplomatic give-and take for a change.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 14, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 14, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK on PSI, UN Sanctions 3. Japan on UN Sanctions 4. Japan on Nuclear Weapons 5. Japan Remilitarization 6. Japan NSC 7. ROK Iraq Contribution 8. US-PRC Military Cooperation 9. Sino-Indian Relations 10. Sino-Pakistani […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, November 13, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, November 13, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Blix on Six-Party Talks 3. US-DPRK Relations 4. ROK on PSI 5. DPRK Financial Sanctions 6. DPRK Human Rights 7. US-PRC Military Relations 8. US-PRC Trade Relations 9. Russia-PRC Relations 10. PRC Unrest 11. […]
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Tatsujiro Suzuki, Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, writes, “The primary driving force behind Japan’s reprocessing program is the management of spent nuclear fuel. The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. management of spent fuel and waste, would pose significant financial, political, and social risks to Japan’s nuclear power program. Japan should explore alternative socio-political solutions, including multinational approaches, to its complex spent fuel management issues.”
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Tatsujiro Suzuki, Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, writes, “The primary driving force behind Japan’s reprocessing program is the management of spent nuclear fuel. The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, i.e. management of spent fuel and waste, would pose significant financial, political, and social risks to Japan’s nuclear power program. Japan should explore alternative socio-political solutions, including multinational approaches, to its complex spent fuel management issues.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, November 09, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, November 09, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. ROK Sanctions on DPRK 2. ROK on Inter-Korean Summit 3. GNP on USFK 4. USFK after Rumsfeld’s Resignation 5. DPRK on Six Party Talks 6. US on Six Party Talks 7. US Experts Visit DPRK 8. DPRK-US Relations […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 08, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, November 08, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US-PRC Summit on DPRK 2. UK on DPRK Nuclear Program 3. Defector on DPRK Regime Change 4. Former PM on Inter-Korean Relations 5. US Governor on DPRK Relations 6. DPRK Aid 7. ROK on Kaesong Workers’ Salaries 8. […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 07, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, November 07, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. US, Japan, ROK on Joint Strategy on DPRK 2. US on DPRK Sanctions 3. US on Six Party Talks 4. Japan on Six Party Talks 5. DPRK-Iran Nuclear Weapons Trade 6. DPRK Ship Inspections 7. DPRK Human Rights […]
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