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 28 October, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks in December
2. ROK DPRK Condolences for Kim Yong-sun
3. ROK-DPRK Private Investment
4. Inter-Korean Economic Talks
5. PRC-US Market Dispute
6. Japan General Election
7. DPRK on Inter-Korean Railroad Meeting
8. Japanese Woman Seeking Asylum in DPRK
9. PRC Space Program
II. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #139

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NAPSNet Daily Report 27 October, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Third Missile Test Fire?
2. US Congress DPRK Visit Delay
3. DPRK on US Nuclear Proposal
4. Top DPRK US Defection
5. DPRK Domestic Politics
6. US-PRC Economic Relations
7. Cross-Straits Relations
8. PRC-Australia Relations
9. Japan Domestic Politics
10. Japan-PRC Russia Energy Competition
11. ROK Anti-US Activism
12. DPRK-PRC Economic Trade
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Cancels All Remaining DPRK Tours
2. DPRK-US Relations
3. Former DPRK Defector returned to DPRK Re-entered ROK
4. ROK Regards DPRK’s Reactions as A Nod on U.S. Proposal
5. Former Secretary of DPRK’s Ruling Worker’s Party US Visit
6. Six-Way Talks Are Likely to Begin Soon
7. DPRK’s Point Man for DPRK-ROK Affairs died of Traffic Accident
8. DPRK Fired Short-Range Missile Again
III. People’s Republic of China 1. DPRK-US Relations on Nuke Issue
2. PRC-DPRK Relations
3. PRC-Japan Relations
4. PRC-US Relations
5. US President on APEC
6. PRC President Press Conference after APEC
7. Russia-Ukraine Relations

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NAPSNet Daily Report 24 October, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK-US Relations
2. ROK-US Marine Deployment Drills
3. PRC-Australian Relations
4. Japan Domestic Politics
5. PRC Envoy DPRK Visit
6. Japan Domestic Economics

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NAPSNet Daily Report 30 September, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Nuclear Diplomacy
2. ROK on DPRK Regime Change
3. DPRK on US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
4. ROK-Japan-US DPRK Diplomacy
5. ROK Domestic Politics
6. ROK Anti-Iraq Troops Activism
8. PRC-Japan Relations
9. PRC Domestic Politics
10. Japan-PRC Chemical Weapons Compensation
11. ASEAN Non-Aggression Pact
12. Japan Domestic Economy
II. Republic of Korea 1. DPRK Defections
2. US DPRK ‘Freedom Bill’
3. US Congressman DPRK Visit
4. DPRK on ROK Cash Summit Convictions
5. DPRK Inspection Apology Demands
6. US DPRK Natural Gas Supply
7. US-Russia on DPRK Nuclear Weapons
8. Mongolia DPRK Refugee Camp
III. CanKor E-Clipping Service 1. Issue #135

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NAPSNET Week in Review 26 September, 2003

United States 1. Rumsfeld on US-ROK Military Alliance and DPRK US plans to boost its military potential on the Korean Peninsula over the next four years — and make a concerted effort to strengthen its security alliance with the ROK, said US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He did not offer any specifics. But addressing the […]

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NAPSNet Daily Report 26 September, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US-ROK Military Alliance
2. US ROK Spy Planes
3. DPRK-Japan Relations
4. ROK DPRK Summit Scandal
5. PRC-DPRK Relations
6. PRC WMD Proliferation
7. PRC-Hong Kong Relations
8. PRC First Manned Spacecraft Launch
9. PRC SARS Monitoring Network
10. Japan Earthquake Status
II. Japan 1. Japan on September 11th
2. Japan Iraq Troop Deployment
3. US Bases in Japan
4. Japan Constitutional Revision
5. Japan Nuclear Fuel Tax

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NAPSNet Daily Report 25 September, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. US-ROK-Japan DPRK Monitoring and Inspection System
2. DPRK on US Nuclear Diplomacy
3. DPRK US Servicemen Remains Recovery
4. US Rumsfeld on DPRK-US Relations
5. ROK on ROK Troops in Iraq
6. Japan Domestic Politics
7. Dalai Lama PRC Visit
8. Japan 8.0 Earthquake

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Policy Forum 03-42A: Diplomatic Fantasyland: The Illusion of a Negotiated Solution to the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Nichoas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that a negotiated settlement to the North Korean nuclear drama would be the most desirable outcome for all of the DPRK’s neighbors. However, a diplomatic settlement resulting in a permanent and irreversible denuclearization is an exceedingly unlikely prospet. Eberstadt identifies three major obstacles to a peaceful diplomatic solution: Pyongyang’s own nuclear intentions, the international precedents for other would-be proliferators that would be established by any deal that rewarded the DPRK, and Pyongyang’s credibility as a negotiation partner.

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NAPSNet Daily Report 23 September, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. Japan Domestic Politics
2. US DPRK Spy Plane Deployment
3. DPRK on IAEA Calls for Nuclear Safeguards
4. ROK IAEA Board of Governors
5. DPRK-US Relations
6. US Wesley Clark on DPRK Issue
7. DPRK Trade Fair
8. DPRK Thailand Asylum Seekers
9. PRC on Currency Exchange Rate
10. PRC-Russia Shanghai Cooperation Organization

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NAPSNet Daily Report 22 September, 2003

 
CONTENTS

I. United States

1. DPRK Trade Fair
2. DPRK Broadband Internet
3. Japan Domestic Politics
4. DPRK on US-ROK Missile Defense
5. IAEA on DPRK Nuclear Developments
6. ROK DPRK Infiltration Training
7. ROK-Russia Dept Agreement
8. US PRC Port Visit
9. US on PRC Human Rights Record
II. People’s Republic of China 1. PRC-US Relations
2. PRC’s Commemoration of the “September 18th Incident”
3. Relations Across Taiwan Straits
4. DPRK-ROK Relations
5. DPRK Relations with US, ROK and Japan
6. PRC’s Army Development
7. ROK-Japan Relations
8. DPRK-Japan Relations
9. PRC’s Attitude towards IAEA Resolution on DPRK
III. Japan 1. ASDF Officer’s Death in Explosion
2. Japan New US Navy Commander
3. Japan Iraq Troop Deployment
4. Japan Nuclear Reactor
5. Japan Domestic Politics
6. Japan Foreign Affairs Bureaucrat Bomb Threat

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