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.
PFO 04-35A: September 28, 2004 Seoul Should Call Pyongyang’s Bluff by Ralph A. Cossa CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Essay by Ralph A. Cossa I. Introduction The following is a paper by Ralph A Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS a Honolulu-based non-profit research institute affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in […]
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The following is a paper by Ralph A Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS a Honolulu-based non-profit research institute affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Cossa writes: “North Korea’s attempt to blame Seoul for the lack of progress in the six-party process is disingenuous and insulting. It’s time to call Pyongyang’s bluff.”
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NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 28, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, September 28, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Announces Nuclear Deterrent 2. DPRK Announces Nuclear Deterrent 3. DPRK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. DPRK Military Activity 5. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 6. US – DPRK Relations 7. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Talks 8. Sino […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 27, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, September 27, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. DPRK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. DPRK Missile Program 5. DPRK Missile Test 6. US on DPRK Missile Test 7. Powell on DPRK Missile Test 8. Japan on […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 23, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, September 23, 2004 United States 1. DPRK Missile Test Threat 2. PRC on DPRK Missile Test Threat 3. Japan on DPRK Missile Test Threat 4. US, ROK on DPRK Missile Test Threat 5. DPRK Japan Threat 6. DPRK Nuclear Program 7. ROK Minister for […]
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NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 22, 2004 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, September 22, 2004 United States 1. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 2. Russia on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 5. ROK Nuclear Experiment 6. Inter – Korean Relations 7. ROK Iraq Dispatch 8. DPRK on ROK Iraq Dispatch 9. DPRK […]
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PFO 04-34A: September 21, 2004 Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Essay by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom III. Nautilus Invites Your Responses I. Introduction This is an excerpt from the annual report of the […]
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PFO 04-34B: September 21, 2004 Threatening Gestures as Cries for Help? Questioning an Overly Fixed Image of North Koreaby Lutz DrescherCONTENTS I. Introduction II. Essay by Lutz Drescher III. Nautilus Invites Your Responses I. Introduction This is an essay by Lutz Drescher. Drescher, lived as an ecumenical worker in the ROK from 1987 to 1995. […]
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The following is an excerpt from the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom dealing with religion in the DPRK. The report states “there is no evidence that religious freedom conditions have improved in the past year. The Commission continues to recommend that North Korea be designated a “country of particular concern,” or CPC, which the State Department has done since 2001.”
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The following is an essay by Lutz Drescher. Drescher, lived as an ecumenical worker in the ROK from 1987 to 1995. Since 2001, he works for the Association of Churches and Missions in Southwest Germany (EMS) as liaison secretary for East Asia. He has participated in numerous meetings with representatives of the North Korean Christian Federation. He coordinated the first official Visit of an EKD (Evangelical Church Germany) delegation to the DPRK in May 2002. The essay states “there is thus freedom of religion, and yet it is a restricted freedom insofar as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not a democratic country with individual rights of liberty in the Western sense. One can say that the members of the church in North Korea live out their faith under particularly harsh conditions. For precisely this reason, they depend on our intercessions and visits.”
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