Policy Forum

#13B — March 24, 1998 The NAPSNet Policy Forum Online is intended to provide expert analysis of contemporary peace and security issues in Northeast Asia, and an opportunity to participate in discussion of the analysis. The Forum is open to all participants of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet). As always, NAPSNet invites your responses to […]

#13B — March 24, 1998 The NAPSNet Policy Forum Online is intended to provide expert analysis of contemporary peace and security issues in Northeast Asia, and an opportunity to participate in discussion of the analysis. The Forum is open to all participants of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet). As always, NAPSNet invites your responses to […]

This essay, “Democracy and the Origins of the 1997 Korean Economic Crisis,” was written by Jongryon Mo, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Associate Director of the Center for International Studies, and Chung-in Moon, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Studies, at Yonsei University. The essay explores the relationship between democratic development and the Economic crisis in the ROK. This essay will be forthcoming as the Epilogue in “Democracy and the Korean Economy,” eds. Chung-in Moon and Jongryn Mo, Hoover Institution Press.

Provides a brief overview of the recent and current status of the DPRK energy sector, as well as some of the factors that will influence the development (or continued decline) of the sector over the next eight years and beyond.

Discussion of NAPSNet Forum #13 — Kim Jong-il’s Peace Policy Discussion of NAPSNet Forum #13 — Kim Jong-il’s Peace Policy Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network DISCUSSION OF “KIM JONG-IL’S PEACE POLICY” #13B — January 12, 1998 The is intended to provide expert analysis of contemporary peace and security issues in Northeast Asia, and an […]

Kim Myong Chol is an ethnic Korean born and living permanently in Japan who has worked as a reporter and editor at “The People’s Korea” and has written extensively on DPRK perspectives on Korean and international relations. Mr. Kim previously contributed to NAPSNet Policy Forum Online #4, “DPRK Perspectives on Ending the Korean Armistice”.

Two Scenarios of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Waste Production in Northeast Asia By David VON HIPPEL and Peter HAYES Nautilus Insitute Prepared for Yonsei University Department of Political Science December, 1997 Abstract As economic growth in the countries of Northeast Asia continues, there will be an increasing need for the services that energy, and particularly […]

This essay was originally prepared for the conference on “Korea In The 21st Century: In Search for Peace, Unification and Prosperity,” held at Chongju University, ROK, June 2-3, 1997, and appeared in the summer 1997 issue of “The Economics of Korean Unification.” The author, Young Whan Kihl, is a professor at Iowa State University. Kihl argues that the foremost political problem of the DPRK today is the survival of the Kim Jong-il regime. Ultimately, Kim will need to build his own charisma via achievement-oriented performance. The strategic goal of the DPRK continues to be forcing US troop withdrawal from the ROK, so as to enable the DPRK to realize its dream of Korean reunification in its own terms, i.e., the communization of the ROK by whatever means are deemed necessary, including the use of force.

Argues that balancing the need for industrial development and environmental protection will require more than establishing green working groups or tightening anti-pollution standards; it will require a fundamental shift from a policy of pollution command-and-control to a system of environmental management as the basis of a regional sustainable development vision.