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 Weapons Programs The Korean Central News Agency, the DPRK’s official foreign news outlet, carried a report by the DPRK Foreign Ministry that claimed that the US administration under President George Bush has maintained excessively tough stances to demand concessions. The DPRK threatened to discard its promise to suspend missile testing and freeze […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. US Nuclear Program Kenneth Bergeron writes in the current issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Atomic Scientists that since the last tritium-producing nuclear reactor in the US was shut down in 1988, the US Department of Energy has debated where to renew its supply of tritium, which will be exhausted by 2016. […]
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Korea 1. US Korean Policy ROK officials said that US experts in Korean affairs attended seminars on US-ROK relations under the new US administration and met with ROK officials to discuss issues on the DPRK. “US Korean Policy” (NAPSNet Daily Report, February 21, ROK) Charles Kartman, US special envoy for Korean peace, arrived in Seoul […]
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Missile Defense 1. US Statements on Missile Defense The White House released the text of the statement by US President George W. Bush to military personnel on February 13, 2001. In his speech, Bush focused on the role NATO has played in global security and of the new technologies needed to meet new threats, specifically […]
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Korea 1. ROK-US Coordination in DPRK Policy ROK President Kim Dae-jung’s office announced on Thursday that Kim will meet US President George W. Bush in Washington on March 7 for talks focusing on the DPRK. “ROK-US Summit” (NAPSNet Daily Report, February 15, US) “ROK-US Summit” (NAPSNet Daily Report, February 15, ROK) “ROK-US Summit” (NAPSNet Daily […]
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Missile Defense 1. Rumsfeld at Munich Conference According to the Washington Post, when US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld spoke at the Munich Conference on European Security Policy, he hoped to create a perception that the US-proposed NMD system was inevitable, in order to stop the issue from dividing NATO and to block Russian […]
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Korea 1. Inter-Korean Relations The militaries of the DPRK and the ROK reached full agreement on arrangements to reconnect a cross-border railway. The 41-point agreement called for opening a hotline between the two militaries and two checkpoints on either side of the military demarcation line (MDL), but not to allow military facilities in the area. […]
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Nuclear Weapons 1. Iraqi Nuclear Weapons An unnamed defector from Iraq, a military engineer who fled Iraq one year after UN arms inspectors left, reported to the London Daily Telegraph that nuclear bombs are being built in Hemrin in north-eastern Iraq. The defector said, “There are at least two nuclear bombs which are ready for […]
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Korea 1. Kim Jong-il’s PRC Visit According to Nodong News, DPRK leader Kim Jong-il stressed the need to renew perception and change working style during his recent visit to the PRC. ROK Unification Ministry spokesman Chung Kang-kyu said, “Kim Jong-il’s tour in China in January would have a great impact on North Korea’s economic policies, […]
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CONTENTS January 29, 2001 Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Balance US Nuclear Weapons India Missile Test Missile Defense Missile Defense Testing US Missile Defense Policy NMD and Arms Control Regimes PRC and NMD Issue Russia and NMD Issue Canada and NMD Issue Security Russian Military Reform Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons Arms Control South Asia Russian Nuclear […]
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