The Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) is a non-governmental information network launched by the Nautilus Institute in November 1993. NAPSNet covers the key areas of research and policy work of the Nautilus Institute nodes in San Francisco, Melbourne and Seoul, including Austral security, nuclear deterrence, energy security, climate change adaptation, the DPRK, governance and civil society and the links between these themes and the three regions in which our nodes are found—North America, Northeast Asia, and the Austral-Asia region.
The Weekly Report succinctly presents six items each week that we believe every reader should know about these fields.
Korea 1. US-DPRK Talks US Representative James Leach said that the Bush administration policy was one of reaffirming support for the US-DPRK alliance, and “endorsing the historic ‘Sunshine Policy’ of [ROK] President Kim [Dae-jung] with the explicit goal of encouraging progress toward North-South reconciliation.” However, Charles Pritchard, US special envoy for negotiations with the DPRK, […]
Go to the article
CONTENTS Volume 3, #28 July 23, 2001 Ballistic Missile Defense US BMD Test Reactions to BMD Test Commentary on US BMD Test US BMD Program BMD Rationale US Diplomacy US-Russia Diplomacy Japanese Role in BMD Security Deterrence US Nuclear Posture Arms Control Bush Administration Perspective Nonproliferation US Programs in Russia Announcement […]
Go to the article
Korea 1. DPRK Participation in ARFDPRK Embassy attache Hong Chong-gil said Thursday in Vietnam that DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun will not attend a regional security meeting in Vietnam next week. Instead, the DPRK said it would dispatch a vice minister-level ambassador to the ARF foreign ministers’ meeting slated to open in Hanoi July 25. […]
Go to the article
Nuclear Weapons 1. US Loose Warheads More than 40 years after a nuclear bomb was reportedly jettisoned from a US Air Force bomber off the US East Coast and fell into the waters off Savannah, Georgia, the Air Force has provided the first evidence that the bomb did not carry a nuclear capsule. According to […]
Go to the article
Korea 1. US View of DPRK ThreatThe head of the UN Command in Korea, General Thomas Schwarz, said in an article released Thursday that the DPRK’s insistence on devoting nearly all its resources to its army makes it “the major security threat in northeast Asia.” Schwarz wrote, “The problem is that the ‘military first’ […]
Go to the article
Korea 1. DPRK Missile Program The Washington Times reported that the DPRK conducted an engine test of its long-range missile last week. US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher declined to comment directly on the report, but said that the US expects the DPRK to abide by its moratorium on flight tests. “DPRK Missile Program” (NAPSNet […]
Go to the article
Nuclear Weapons 1. US Nuclear Forces US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that the detailed 2002 budget proposal that will be presented to Congress will include a request to dismantle all fifty of the US nuclear MX “Peacekeeper” missiles as part of the US unilateral disarmament plan. US Air Force officials report that it […]
Go to the article
Korea 1. IAEA Inspections of DPRK The DPRK’s official KCNA news agency reported that the DPRK will not allow UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitors to inspect its nuclear program until the US speeds up construction of two nuclear reactors promised under the 1994 Agreed Framework. The IAEA has said verification may take two […]
Go to the article
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, […]
Go to the article
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 […]
Go to the article
