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.

NAPSNet

Policy Forum 10-043: Dichotomy of Obama’s North Korea Policy: Deterrence and Sanctions Will Not Solve the North Korean Question without Chinese Cooperation

Tong Kim, Visiting professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul and an adjunct professor at SAIS in Washington, writes, “If there is no exit strategy on the part of Washington or Seoul, the Cheonan incident might become a defining moment for the prolonging of inter-Korean confrontation and the opening of a collision course between the United States and China in the years ahead.”

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NAPSNet Daily Report 5 August, 2010

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Policy Forum 10-042: Nuclear Power and Spent Fuel in East Asia: Balancing Energy, Politics and Nonproliferation

Miles Pomper, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Stephanie Lieggi, and Lawrence Scheinman, write, “a new regional forum for more consistently and openly discussing possible options for dealing with regional spent fuel stockpiles needs to be established. Many regional players are facing similar back end challenges and some of their nuclear authorities are proposing similar solutions; sharing of best practices and lessons learned would be beneficial. Numerous smaller Asian economies are contemplating nuclear power development (such as Vietnam and Indonesia), yet there is little regional discussion or coordination of such issues.”

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NAPSNet Daily Report 4 August, 2010

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NAPSNet Daily Report 3 August, 2010

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NAPSNet Daily Report 2 August, 2010

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NAPSNet Daily Report 30 July, 2010

  1. US-DPRK Military Talks
  2. DPRK Nuclear Program
  3. Sino-DPRK Relations
  4. Cross Strait Relations
  5. US Troops in Japan
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NAPSNet Daily Report 30 July, 2010

  1. I. Napsnet
  2. US-DPRK Military Talks
  3. DPRK Nuclear Program
  4. Sino-DPRK Relations
  5. Cross Strait Relations
  6. US Troops in Japan
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NAPSNet Daily Report 29 July, 2010

  1. I. Napsnet
  2. US on Sino-DPRK Relations
  3. DPRK-Burma Relations
  4. ROK Civil Society on Naval Ship Sinking
  5. US-Japan Nuclear Agreement
  6. PRC Military Exercises
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NAPSNet Daily Report 29 July, 2010

  1. I. Napsnet
  2. US on Sino-DPRK Relations
  3. DPRK-Burma Relations
  4. ROK Civil Society on Naval Ship Sinking
  5. US-Japan Nuclear Agreement
  6. PRC Military Exercises
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