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of this newsletter was issued April 1999. It is published as frequently as time
permits and is available on free email notification from tim@timbeal.net.nz
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my retirement from university my website has been moved, and re-named as ‘Asia
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Vol
14, N2, 22 February 2012
2012: Turning point for the Korean peninsula?
Vol
14 N1, 24 January 2012
Delving deeper: Reflections on the
response to the death of Kim Jong Il
Vol
13 N 2, 6 December 2011
Vol
13 No 1 August 2011
Russian chess: Russia moves to use economics to promote peace in Northeast Asia (pdf)
Vol 12 No 1 December 2010
Fire
fight at Yeonpyeong: the manufacturing of crisis (docx)
Fire fight at Yeonpyeong: the manufacturing of
crisis (odt)
Fire fight at
Yeonpyeong: the manufacturing of crisis (pdf)
Fire fight at
Yeonpyeong; the manufacturing of crisis (html)
Vol 11 No 1 June 2009
Unravelling the geopolitics of the US-DPRK standoff (pdf)
n Pyongyang Report enters tenth year
n Commentary: On the brink - Prospects for US-DPRK settlement dim, yet
again
n News Reports
n US-DPRK negotiations and the curious Syrian affair
n IT outsourcing in DPRK
n NZ teacher returns to Pyongyang
n Invisible WMD – the effect of sanctions
n 2nd North-South summit; hopes and issues
n Six party Talks re-open in Beijing
n ‘Floods and the NZ response; donations to NZ Friendship Farm
n The February agreement – prospects and problems
n Case of terror bombing of South Korean plane reopened
n Bolton’s ghost haunts UN – vexatious charges against UNDP
n ‘Swinging from the chandeliers - NZ-style teaching in Pyongyang
n The mysteries of US foreign policy, if there is one
n The Banco Delta Asia affair – another case of fabricated charges?
n Joint venture pharmaceutical company seeks aid business
n More revelations about US Korean War massacres
n The Agreement to implement the Joint Statement – a search for quiet on the East Asian Front?
n Text of the Agreement; reactions and analyses
n Wolfgang Rosenberg dies
n The gifting of a tractor to the Korea-NZ Friendship Farm
n DPRK
nuclear test – Bush’s godchild?
n China
brokers resumption of Six Party Talks
n Japan
moves further toward remilitarisation; nuclear weapons feared
n Software
outsourcing possibilities in North Korea
n Reactions to DPRK missile tests
n More doubts about counterfeiting allegations
n Collapse of Pong Su case undercuts US narcotics claims
n Investment and trade move ahead
n Counterfeiting concern over counterfeiting?
n Friction builds between Washington and Seoul
n North sends rice to South; first since aid in 1984
n Inter-Korean trade hits $1billion in 2005
n Six Party Talks: from Breakthrough to Breakdown
n Growing ROK exasperation with US policy over DPRK and talks
n Anti-Avian Flu campaign in DPRK
n
Practical measures to help: The
NZ-Korea Friendship Farm
n The Logic of Empire and the deadlock in the Six Party Talks
n Bush Korea policy criticised at home and
abroad
n Nuclear dangers: US bombing of nuclear plant, Japanese remilitarisation
n Disinformation from Washington and Tokyo
n North-South software cooperation
n A new cold War in East Asia?
n Echoes of Iraq: US ‘distorted’ uranium evidence
n Chinese Foreign Minister, South Korean opposition leader call for US to
negotiate with DPRK
n Many refugees lured by money and false hopes
n The American election – what now?
n Seoul tries to push US to talk, Pyongyang offers olive branch
n US practised strikes, had secret nuclear
weapons in SK in late ‘90s
n More doubts on terrorism charge; was KAL flight blown up by SK agents?
n American impasse continues
n Germany opens reading room in Pyongyang
n Korean Civil Society groups attack US human rights bill
n NZ and DPRK – a developing relationship
n Six Party Talks and US policy
n Drug allegations looking increasingly dubious
n NZ and DPRK – farm, festival and tourism study
n Doubts mount about enriched uranium allegation
n Bush’s former North Korea envoy attacks administration’s NK policies
n WFP calls for continued aid, rebuts charges of diversion
n The Washington-Pyongyang impasse continues
n US war plans violate international law, armistice
n Perry, Harrison, Weldon, scholars and religious leaders call for
negotiations
n Fallout from the invasion of Iraq
n US-DPRK relations – Agreed Framework to Beijing talks
n Bush under increasing pressure to negotiate
n Roh Moo-hyun’s ‘Peace and Prosperity’ policy
n Child malnutrition falls
n DPRK ‘making mark in animation’
n Not only reactors and rockets: Internet and cell phones in DPRK
n Roh Moo-hyun’s victory offers opportunities and challenges
n Roh may pose dilemma to Bush
n Experts call on US to negotiate with Pyongyang
n Inter-Korea trade, software exports
up, banking strengthened
n New DPRK ambassador to NZ
n Kelly visits Pyongyang – beginnings of a thaw?
n Millions face food aid cut-off, WFP warns
n Special zone established in Sinuiju; Kaesong next?
n Japan moving to normalize relations, pay reparations
n North-South relations warmed by sports ties
n Pyongyang
defuses West Sea incident crisis, reinvigorates dialogue
n Two
Koreas celebrate Liberation Day together
n Constructive engagement
builds trust
n Economic
reform – learning from abroad
n NZ-DPRK relations move
forward
n Aid programme in danger
n Washington frustrates Seoul, vexes Pyongyang
n Refugees – Pawns in a wider game?
n Worldwide reaction to ‘Axis of
Evil’ speech
n Seoul awaits Bush visit with apprehension and determination
n UN Appeal: Need for environment enabling transition to rehabilitation
n Harvest up 38% but aid still required
n Seoul rebuts US claims; Pyongyang signs anti-terrorism pacts
n Afghanistan, Iraq…Next target Pyongyang?
n NZ Ambassador to DPRK; Presbyterian invitation to Pyongyang
n N-S talks resume with renewed momentum
n ROK Defence Ministry: No military build-up in North
n DPRK condemns terrorism; calls for US to drop its hostile attitude
n Selig Harrison and Joe Biden on NMD and Bush Korea policy
n NZ Delegation to DPRK; Ambassadors appointed
n South Koreans urge Bush to contribute to Korean peace
n ROK government pressures US with fighter deal
n US resumes negotiations with DPRK
n US university programme in Pyongyang
n NGOs call for increased aid
n NZ Delegation to DPRK
n US-Korean relations worsen; inter-Korean relations on hold
n NZ and DPRK establish diplomatic relations
n DPRK Foreign Minister to visit Australia
n SPA signals conditional opening up
n Bush victory casts pall on Korean peace efforts
n Kim Jong Il visits China – are new economic
policies imminent?
n Food situation worsens – WFP
n
British aid worker on working in
DPRK
n Inter-Korean relations–second family reunions
n US: Albright visit; Condoleezza Rice; Nogun Ri
massacre
n Food situation worsens: Congressman Hall; World Food Programme
n Pyongyang: Computer expo, exam fever
n Australian FM Downer visits Pyongyang
n Inter-Korean relations post Summit – family reunions lead the way
n Kim Jong Il’s dialogue with South Korean media heads
n DPRK buffeted by drought, typhoon: food situation difficult
n DPRK foreign relations: NZ team in Pyongyang discussing recognition
n The Inter-Korean Summit
n ASEAN Regional Forum; DPRK to establish relations with Canada, NZ
n World Food Programme food supply report 24 July: Position still
precarious
§ Overview
§ Netizens send ideas
to Kim for summit
§ NK to
Step Up Presence in Int'l Bodies Via ARF Entry
§ Majority
of S. Koreans Sees NK as Partner of Cooperation
§ May to
bring about rapid political changes on Korean Peninsula
§ Summit
success could be too much for US, Japan
§ Entrepreneurs Rush to Visit N. Korea
o Australia,
DPRK re-establish relations
o Minister
urges NZ link with N Korea
o NZ
Journal of Asian Studies special supplement
o Pyongyang's
'Diplomatic Offensive'
o Other
news: KEDO, Korean War, satellite TV, missile threat debunked
Eased U.S. sanctions makes North Korea confident: Japanese professor