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. DPRK Nuclear Program William J. Perry, former US Defense Secretary, said that, “It is likely that the North has one or two nuclear weapons at most, although it is uncertain at the moment.” The former defense secretary said in an exclusive interview with Chosun Ilbo that, “If it were not for the Geneva […]
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Security 1. Bush Speech at NDU In a speech delivered at the US National Defense University on May 1, President George W. Bush said that the US and its allies should move beyond the constraints of the ABM Treaty towards a new concept of deterrence that relies on both offensive and defensive forces, including a […]
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Korea 1. EU Visit to DPRK Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said that an EU delegation held successful discussions with DPRK leader Kim Jong-il on Thursday. They shared opinions of mutual interest that covered a wide range of subjects from that of bilateral relations to matters that concern the overall situation in Northeast Asia. Kim […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. India Missile Program Jane’s Defense Weekly reports that India lacked an appropriate third-stage engine when it was designing the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) that achieved a satellite launch last week. Russia provided India with its KVD-1, originally designed for use on the Russian space program’s L-3M lunar-lander project, to be the […]
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China 1. US-PRC Surveillance Talks PRC Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said on April 19 that after two days of negotiations regarding the ramming and destruction a Chinese fighter jet by a US reconnaissance plane, the two sides have agreed to keep in contact and resolve the issue through diplomatic channels. US State Department […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. DPRK Nuclear Weapons In a speech given at a conference at Texas A&M University, Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin stated that the DPRK probably has one or two nuclear bombs and may also have biological and chemical weapons. He said that the DPRK’s No Dong missile and its variants have shown up […]
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US-PRC Spy Plane Incident 1. International Responses: Russia, ROK Russian daily Segodnya’s Aleksandr Chudodeyev, reporting on Russian perspectives during the standoff, stated that the US and the PRC reached a compromise over the spy plane incident, but with the advantage being on the side of PRC, which was satisfied enough with the US wording to […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. Kursk Nuclear Weapons The Bellona Foundation and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS released separate statements which stated that there is no reason to believe rumors that the Russian submarine Kursk carried nuclear weapons when it sank in the Barents Sea last August, as put out by Norwegian television station “TV2.” […]
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US-PRC Spy Plane Incident 1. Event DetailsThe 24 US crewmembers who were detained in the PRC after their EP-3 spy-plane landed in Hainan arrived in Honolulu on April 12. The first of the debriefings revealed that the US fliers came much close to losing the reconnaissance plane and their lives than had previously been known. […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. Nuclear Weapons Report The US State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control released a fact sheet listing the aggregate numbers of strategic (nuclear) offensive arms in existence within countries covered by the START I agreement. This data is as of January 31, 2001, and comes from Memorandum of Understandings exchanged by the US, […]
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