Special Reports

This special report by Edward P. Reed, the Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was presented at the 2004 Workshop: “Towards a Peaceful Resolution with North Korea: Crafting a New International Engagement Framework in Washington D.C. The workshop, which ran from February 12-13, 2004, was hosted by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and the Korea Economic Institute (KEI), in cooperation with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Reed argues that, “aid agencies must negotiate interventions that are development-oriented, while at same time employing an operational style that builds the institutional and personal trust on which acceptable levels of accountability are based.”

This article may be found at:
http://www.kiep.go.kr/project/workshop.nsf/0/9CA26C701C3FCCCE49256E3F002262C4/$file/Reed.pdf/Reed.pdf

This statement by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James A. Kelly was made to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 15th. The statement summarized publicly for the first time the seven-page U.S. proposal presented to North Korea at the most recent Beijing negotiations.

This special report by Liu Ming, professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, was presented at the 2004 Workshop: “Towards a Peaceful Resolution with North Korea: Crafting a New International Engagement Framework in Washington D.C. The workshop, which ran from February 12-13, 2004, was hosted by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and the Korea Economic Institute (KEI), in cooperation with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In this paper Professor Liu examines the changing relationship between the PRC and the DPRK noting, “the nuclear crisis offers a chance for China to increase its influence on North Korea and adjusts its traditional relations with and approach to the North.”

This article may be found at: http://www.kiep.go.kr/project/workshop.nsf/0/F0B574A83D21524649256E3F0025237C/$file/Liu.pdf

This special report by Bradley O. Babson, an Asian specialist and former World Bank official, was presented at the 2004 Workshop: “Towards a Peaceful Resolution with North Korea: Crafting a New International Engagement Framework” in Washington D.C. The workshop, which ran from February 12-13, 2004, was hosted by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and the Korea Economic Institute (KEI), in cooperation with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In this presentation Babson gives an excellent summary of the methods of mobilizing capital for the DPRK. This presentation notes the intricacy of the relationship between political and economic issues in the DPRK. Babson also emphasizes the need for open dialogue between nations to support such an endeavor.

This article may be found at: http://www.kiep.go.kr/project/workshop.nsf/0/1B4202A0D4027DE649256E3F00221C4B/$file/Babson.pdf/Babson.pdf

In this special report, Peter Hayes provides basic information on North Korea’s uranium industry. He concludes that the main significance of the reported export of North Korean uranium to Libya is not that the DPRK exported uranium, a material that is available from many suppliers around the world, but rather, the fact that it has already developed an important prerequisite for enriching its own uranium.

This special report is accompanied by three documents that provide new insight into the support for North Korea’s uranium mining industry from the IAEA and western companies.

Changes of North Korea and the Future of Inter-Korean Relations aug. 12, 2002   The following paper is by Dr. Tae-Hwan Kwak, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University and former President of the Korea Institute for National Unification, and Dr. Seung-Ho Joo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Morris. The paper has three specific […]

The annual report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China July 17, 2002 The annual report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China was submitted by the Department of Defense on July 12, 2002 to the US Congress. It addresses the current and […]

Turning the tide July 8, 2002 Japan is a major donor of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to Pacific island nations, doubling its aid to the region between 1987 and 1995. By 1999, Japan was the largest bilateral aid donor to Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and the second largest donor to Fiji, Papua […]

  America’s Korea Watchers Assess Developments on the Korean Peninsula Peter M. Beck April 11, 2002 A recent survey of Korea watchers in the United States finds broad support for engaging North Korea and an almost equally strong disapproval of the Bush Administration’s approach to North Korea. Dong-a Ilbo, one of Korea’s largest daily newspapers […]

Nautilus Institute Report on WTO Meetings in Seattle U.S. ARROGANCE AND INCOMPETENCE — A LETHAL MIX Reflections on Seattle by Lyuba Zarsky The image of police battling protesters in Seattle may have faded from TV screens but hopefully not from the minds of US trade officials. There are important lessons to be drawn about how […]