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.
Hiromichi Umebayashi, Founder and President of Peace Depot, a non-profit organization for peace research and education in Japan, ‘reports that a study using FOIA “has established for the first time the actual patrol patterns of the U.S. Navy Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan engaged in missile defense duties.” Umebayashi concludes that “the plan is to integrate Aegis ships long-range surveillance and tracking data in the Sea of Japan, the interceptor missile launch control system and the battle management system. Accordingly, the Japan Sea patrols are a crucial component in exercises to develop the core of the whole integrated system US National Missile Defense system.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 25, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 25, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. DPRK Defectors 3. Inter-Korean Economic Talks 4. Think Tank on DPRK Missile Tests 5. UN on DPRK Food Aid 6. DPRK-Russia Relations 7. DPRK Technology 8. Yasukuni Shrine Issue 9. Japan-India Military Relations 10. […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 24, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 24, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Inter-Korean Railway Test 3. Inter-Korean Relations 4. US on PRC’s DPRK Strategy 5. Amnesty International on DPRK Refugees 6. Joint Maritime Exercises 7. PRC-Japan East Sea Gas Dispute 8. US Embassy Threat 9. US […]
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Donald S. Zagoria, a trustee of the NCAFP, a private American think tank dedicated to resolving conflicts that threaten U.S. national interests, writes, “In sum, the conditions for equilibrium in the Taiwan Strait are now at least visible. It is possible but unlikely that President Chen, in his remaining two years in office, can or will challenge this equilibrium– China, for its part, is unlikely in the short run to abandon its ‘hearts and minds’ strategy and will probably resume an official dialog with whichever party wins the Taiwan presidency in 2008.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 23, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, May 23, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Kim Dae-jung’s DPRK Visit 2. Kim Dae-jung on DPRK, US Policy 3. International Doha Talks on DPRK 4. DPRK-PRC Bilateral Talks 5. Inter-Korean Rail Cooperation 6. Inter-Korean Summit Anniversary 7. DPRK Defectors 8. US-ROK Free Trade Agreement 9. […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 22, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, May 22, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. DPRK Missile Tests 2. US DPRK Policy 3. DPRK Defectors 4. ROK on DPRK Defectors 5. Inter-Korean Tourism 6. Inter-Korean Rail Cooperation 7. Kaesong Industrial Complex 8. ROK Unification Think Tank 9. DPRK Media Access 10. DPRK-Malaysia Relations […]
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James Goodby, former U.S. ambassador to Finland, and Markku Heiskanen, an Associate Senior Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen, write, “Europeans can make a unique contribution to peace in Northeast Asia: they have shown that multi-national cooperation really works. Its example complements the American emphasis on power relationships, which is also a reality in today’s international system.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 18, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, May 18, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. US DPRK Policy 3. Inter-Korean Military Summit 4. Inter-Korean Industrial Standards 5. Inter-Korean Relations 6. DPRK Economy 7. USFJ Realignment 8. Japan-US Nuclear Cooperation 9. Yasukuni Shrine Issue 10. Japan War Plans 11. Japan […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 17, 2006 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, May 17, 2006 I. NAPSNet 1. Six Party Talks 2. Kim Dae-jung’s DPRK Visit 3. Inter-Korean Military Summit 4. Inter-Korean Group Reconciliation 5. ROK-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement 6. DPRK Abduction Issue 7. Japan-ROK Relations 8. Japan Iraq Role 9. Japan-ROK Territorial Dispute 10. PRC […]
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Masaru Tamamoto, editor of JIIA Commentary, an information service from the Japan Institute of International Affairs, writes, “Japan is in the midst of searching for a post-economic identity in the international world, especially in Asia. The search is for a new hierarchy in which Japan can claim leadership status Organizing the world in terms of a hierarchy of democratic evolution is another way of awarding Japan leadership status in Asia. But, in the end, the real question of Japanese national identity is whether Japan in Asia can develop a sense of equality.”
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