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.
Rose Gottemoeller, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was responsible for nonproliferation policy at the Department of Energy from 1997 to 2000, Seoul, writes: “The point of the Sister Laboratory program is to build mutual confidence and transparency in a low-key way, without major transfers of funds, equipment or materials. This message should be very welcome to the North Koreans. The United States, in its turn, has been able to leverage the relationships to establish new joint work in the nonproliferation arena – exactly the goal that Washington seeks with North Korea.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 14, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 14, 2005 I. United States 1. Six Party Talks 2. US on Six Party Talks 3. ROK on Six Party Talks 4. Inter-Korean Cultural Cooperation 5. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 6. DPRK-PRC Economic Cooperation 7. PRC AIDS Issue 8. PRC Energy Supply 9. PRC-Venezuela […]
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Discussion of “Food Aid to North Korea or How to Ride a Trojan Horse to Death” Discussion of “Food Aid to North Korea or How to Ride a Trojan Horse to Death” Policy Forum Online 05-75A: September 13th, 2005 Discussion of “Food Aid to North Korea or How to Ride a Trojan Horse to Death” […]
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Ruediger Frank, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Korea University, Seoul, writes: “And so, it comes as no surprise to read in the Chosun Ilbo that the World Food Program was asked to shut down its Pyongyang office. We know what happens next. The North Koreans will be accused of not being grateful, the South Koreans will be told that it is their fault, the already not-so united front of the five nations at the Six Party Talks will be further weakened, and the North Korean leadership will open a bottle of Champaign.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 13, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 13, 2005 I. United States 1. Six Party Talks 2. ROK on Six Party Talks 3. DPRK on Six Party Talks 4. Expert on DPRK Nuclear Program 5. DPRK-US Relations 6. Expert on DPRK-US Relations 7. DPRK-US Bilateral Talks Before Six Party Talks […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 12, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 12, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program 2. Experts on DPRK Nuclear Program 3. DPRK on Biological Weapons 4. Six Party Talks 5. US on Six Party Talks 6. PRC on Six Party Talks 7. DPRK-US Bilateral Talks Before […]
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Eric Hagt and Chen Yali, World Security Institute China Program, writes: “China is a rising power, and the paramount task of both China and the United States is to adjust to that impending reality in terms of economic and trade relations, but also in terms of Taiwan and the two nations’ strategic policies. A heavy responsibility falls on China to assure the region and the world that its rise won’t constitute a threat to others; that it is a force for stability rather than a revisionist power ? On the other hand, the United States must deeply reflect on its own policies toward China, as the latter evolves as a regional and potential world power.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 08, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 08, 2005 I. United States 1. Expert on DPRK Nuclear Weapons 2. Six Party Talks 3. DPRK on Six Party Talks 4. ROK on Economic Aid to DPRK 5. DPRK on UN Food Aid 6. PRC on Bank Probe Report 7. Inter-Korean Excavation […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 07, 2005 I. United States 1. ROK on Six Party Talks 2. DPRK on Six Party Talks 3. Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation 4. DPRK-US Relations 5. US on DPRK Human Rights Issue 6. DRPK on Hurricane Katrina 7. US on Future of Korean Peninsula […]
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Frank Barnaby, Nuclear Issues Consultant to Oxford Research Group (ORG), and Shaun Burnie, Coordinator of Greenpeace International nuclear campaigns, write: “Treat nothing as inevitable is a good principle to live one’s life by. Unfortunately, in the case of Japan’s nuclear development, it may not be sufficient. The international community – read governments – will learn to live with Japanese nuclear weapons if that occasion arises. The consequences would of course be terrible for Northeast Asia. Pressure in South Korea to respond would be huge, relations with China could become disastrous, and the global nuclear non-proliferation regime centred around the NPT reduced to a historical footnote.”
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