Daily Report Archives

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.

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NAPSNet Daily Report 05 December, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US on DPRK Six-way Talks Delay
2. Response to Australia and US Missile Defense
3. Japan on Russia Kyoto Protocol Ratification
4. DPRK Telecommunications Network Development
5. DPRK-PRC Border Crackdown
6. Inter-Korean Railway Development
7. DPRK Religious Suppression

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NAPSNet Daily Report 04 December, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US on DPRK Multilateral Talks
2. ROK-Japan DPRK Talks
3. ROK Domestic Politics
4. Australia US Missile Defense Program
5. Japan Missile Defense System
6. PRC Military on Taiwan
7. PRC-US Proliferation Relations
8. PRC German Plutonium Plant Sale
9. PRC Weapons Policies
10. Elbaradei on Nuclear Program Detection Challenges
II. Republic of Korea 1. Powell Says He Thinks Future Six-Party Talks Optimistic
2. U.S. Official Says, DPRK Nuke Verifiers Could Include France,
3. DPRK And Russia Finetune Details on Six-Way Talks
4. Sia-Way Talks Are Unclear Whether To Be Held This Year

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NAPSNet Daily Report 03 December, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US on DPRK Multilateral Talks
2. ROK on DPRK Multilateral Talks
3. PRC on Non-Proliferation Regime
4. Cross-Straits Relations
5. PRC-Hong Kong Relations
6. ROK Domestic Politics
7. Japan Iraq Troop Dispatch
8. Japan-ASEAN Anti-Terror Conference
9. DPRK Economic Liberalization

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NAPSNet Daily Report 02 December, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Korean Central News Agency Statement on Six-Party Talks
2. DPRK Multilateral Talks
3. ROK-Japan-US DPRK Strategy Meeting
4. DPRK on KEDO Compensation
5. DPRK-US Relations
6. Japan DPRK Spy Satellite Launch Failure
7. Taiwan-PRC Espionage
8. Japan Iraq Troop Dispatch
9. Japan Iraq Diplomat Casualties
10. ROK on Iraq Terrorist Attacks
12. ROK Domestic Economy
13. US State Department on Bolton
14. Bolton on Nuclear Weapons and Rogue States
II. People’s Republic of China 1. US Security Policy
2. US on Taiwan Issue
3. PRC’s Stance on Taiwan Issue
4. PRC-Japan Relations
5. PRC-US Relations
6. PRC’s Commentary on DPRK Issue
7. PRC’s Commentary on Japan’s Military Ambitions
8. Japan’s Domestic Politics
9. US-ROK Relations
10. Six-party Talks
11. Japan’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #144

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NAPSNet Daily Report 24 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US DPRK Nuclear Assurances?
3. DPRK Talks
4. UN on DPRK Openness
5. ROK US Troops to Iraq, Afghanistan
6. Korean War POW in the PRC
7. Japan-US Missile Production
8. Japan Terror Alert
9. Hong Kong Domestic Politics
10. Taiwan Economic Development
11. PRC-Taiwan Relations
12. US-PRC Trade Relations
13. Boeing Missile Systems Dismissals
14. Op-Ed: US Nuclear Double Standards
II. Republic of Korea 1. Can DPRK’s Leader Remember His 1,200 Names?
2. DPRK Defector (ROK’s POW in DPRK)’s Case Hit A Blow to ROK’s Credibility
3. KEDO Officially Announces One-Year Suspension of Reactor Project in DPRK
4. U.S. Considers Providing Food Aid to DPRK
5. DPRK Diplomat Are in Beijing for Nuke Talks
6. Second Six-way Talks Will Likely Be Held in Mid-December
7. There Will be No Safety Guarantee Document in Next Six-way Tlaks
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #143

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Policy Forum 03-45A: Seoul’s Secret Success

In his essay, Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea at Leeds University in England, asserts that the numbers regarding North Korean trade as reported by South Korea’s Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy are distorted. On the surface, it appears Japan and China are North Korea’s main market, but closer scrutiny of the number reveals how much inter-Korean trade is in fact transpiring. In the first half of 2003, North-South Korean trade totaled US $269 million, comprising $112 million in Northern exports and $157 million in imports. South Korea is well on track to gain the pole position of Pyongyang’s top market, and second place in trade overall. So why obfuscate it?

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NAPSNet Daily Report 21 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. KEDO Press Release on Project Suspension
2. US on KEDO Suspension
3. US-ROK on DPRK Nuclear Diplomacy
4. US Asian Diplomacy
5. PRC-US Trade Relations
6. PRC-Taiwan Relations
7. Mongolia-Japan DPRK Policy
8. Hyundai-DPRK Business Relations
9. EU-DPRK Financial Restructuring

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NAPSNet Daily Report 20 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK on Rumsfeld ROK Visit
2. US Kelly in the ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks
3. DPRK KEDO Energy Project
4. DPRK on KEDO Compensation
5. UN Secretariat in PRC
6. PRC-US Economic Relations
7. US-Japan-Australian Counter-Terrorism
8. Japan Domestic Economy
9. EU-DPRK Relations
II. Republic of Korea 1. Korean War POW Are Facing Repatriation To North
2. U.S is the Largest Donor of Supplies to DPRK
3. EU Will Send Delegation To DPRK Early Next Month
4. 6-Way Talks May Be Held Regularly
5. Ex-President Kim Dae-Jung Says “DPRK and U.S. Should Have Direct Talks”

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NAPSNet Daily Report 19 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US Kelly in PRC for DPRK Talks
2. US Congress Nuclear Weapons Funds Approval
3. ROK on DPRK Six-Way Talks
4. ROK on US Troop Relocation
5. Japan Koizumi Prime Minister Re-election
6. Taiwan AIM-120 Missile Test-Fire
7. PRC on US Textile Quotas
8. PRC Taiwan Independence Warning
9. ROK on Al Qaeda Threats
10. DPRK-PRC Military Relations
11. DPRK on Japan-US Security Alliance
12. DPRK Marketization

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NAPSNet Daily Report 18 November, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. Rumsfeld on ‘Evil’ DPRK, Regime Change, and
2. Rumsfeld on ROK Defense and Nuclear Umbrella
3. US-Japan on DPRK Talks
4. KEDO Suspension Plan Announcement
5. DPRK-Myanman Military Relations
6. US Army DMZ War Preparedness
7. US-ROK Defense Chiefs on DPRK Nuclear Program
8. DPRK $40 Billion Japan War Compensation Demand
9. DPRK on Japanese Terrorism
10. DPRK-ROK Civilian Exchanges
II. Republic of Korea 1. If Unification Realized, USFK Will Leave Unified Korea
2. Mr. Hwang-Top DPRK Defector Resigns as NIS Institute Head
3. Russian Foreign Minister Vows To Accept Any Proposal to Solve the Nuclear III. Japan
1. SDF Dispatch to Iraq
2. 6-Way Talks
3. Afghan Reconstruction
IV. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #142

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