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.
Nuclear Weapons 1. Former Soviet Union The recently released sixth update of the joint Monterey Institute-Carnegie Endowment “Nuclear Status Report” includes information on Russia’s nuclear arsenal and stockpile, the status of fissile material at other sites in the former Soviet Union, and the progress of US nonproliferation assistance programs. “Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, […]
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Korea 1. DPRK-US Talks The DPRK began talks in New York between Li Hyong-chol, the DPRK representative to the United Nations, and US special envoy, Jack Pritchard. “US-DPRK Missile Talks” (NPP Weekly FLASH, V.3 #24) 2. DPRK on US-DPRK Talks The DPRK, in its first official response to the talks, has dismissed a US Bush […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. Nuclear Testing The BBC reports that the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa) has confirmed that the bodies of thousands of Australian children and adults were posthumously used in scientific nuclear tests without parental consent, with their autopsy samples used for studies in the US, Great Britain and Australia. John […]
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Korea 1. Agreed Framework The Korean Central News Agency released a commentary, saying that the US should bear inescapable responsibility for the delay of DPRK’s two light-water reactors’ construction. If the US side does not compensate the DPRK for its loss, the commentary warned, DPRK will have to restore its construction of graphite reactor to […]
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