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.
by Peter Hayes and Roger Cavazos 14 September 2015 I. Introduction Peter Hayes and Roger Cavazos write “This chapter examines the increasingly complex problem of the threat posed by nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Northeast Asia. The first section sketches the recent evolution of the role played by nuclear weapons in international affairs […]
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DETERRENCE: Anxiety rises over Abe omitting non-nuclear principles from Hiroshima speech
DPRK: North Korea’s digital transformation: Implications for North Korea policy
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Japan’s nuclear gypsies: The homeless, jobless and Fukushima
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DETERRENCE: Obama pledged to reduce nuclear arsenal, then came this weapon
DPRK: Unprecedented nuclear strikes of the invincible army
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China explosions: Tianjin residents hold protests
AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Turning back the clock on UNCLOS
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Plans call for a continued expansion in South Korea’s fleet of nuclear reactors, but at the same time, facilities for the temporary storage of spent fuel, mostly in at-reactor pools, continue to fill up. Negotiations between the nuclear industry and central government agencies on one side, and local host communities on the other, for siting of interim spent fuel storage facilities, let alone permanent waste disposal facilities, have been largely ineffective to date, due in large part to a combination of the tactics used by authorities in approaching local communities, and a lack of unbiased information about nuclear facilities on the part of local stakeholders. In the last few years, a new effort to engage host communities has been undertaken, and shows some promise, though much work remains before agreements on facility siting can be reached.
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DETERRENCE: No third use: an interview with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue
DPRK: Full text of inter-Korean agre…
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Cities have become complex systems by virtue of their intersection with multiple global problems. Cities face …
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DETERRENCE: Wide-area sensors shrinking as industry looks beyond military
DPRK: An updated estimate of energy use in the armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Chinese Christians resist government plan to remove crosses
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: A conflict-sensitive approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation in the urbanizing Asia- Pacific
AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: PNG: more to Australia than just another point on a star
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by Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson and Richard Tanter 18 August 2015 The full report is available here. I. Introduction The higher management of Pine Gap is and has always been an entirely American affair. To understand Pine Gap today, it is necessary to understand the organisations of the US intelligence community and military concerned with […]
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DETERRENCE: The Navy is preparing to launch swarm bots out of cannons
DPRK: North Korea seeking foreign investors after deal with Chinese company
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Abe to include ‘apology’ in war anniversary statement
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: It’s not climate change — it’s everything change
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Many Australians associate Pine Gap with the Central Intelligence Agency, and it probably remains the CIA’s most important technical intelligence collection station in the world. Yet Pine Gap is much more thoroughly militarised than in the past, with units of all four branches of the US armed forces now present, with close involvement in operations of the US military worldwide, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US military personnel now comprise about 66 per cent of the US Government employees (not counting contractor personnel) at Pine Gap. US military Service elements form a Combined Support Group (CSG). Through the 1990s, the growing Service presence supported Pine Gap’s primary (and during that period its sole) role, that of controlling and processing and analysing SIGINT collected by the NRO/CIA geosynchronous SIGINT satellites. Since then, the larger proportion of the CSG personnel have evidently been engaged in FORNSAT/COMSAT (Foreign Satellite/Communications Satellite) collection. Officially, they are engaged in Information Operations, Cyber Warfare and the achievement of Information Dominance. In practice, this involves monitoring Internet activities being transmitted via communications satellites, scouring e-mails, Web-sites and Chat Rooms for intelligence to support military operations, and particularly those involving Special Operations Forces, in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are undoubtedly key participants in NSA’s X-Keyscore program at Pine Gap.
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