The first
issue of this newsletter was issued April 1999. It is published as frequently
as time permits and is available on free email notification from Tim.Beal@vuw.ac.nz
Pyongyang
Report has been running way behind schedule because of the pressure of other
commitments. This latest issue comprises
merely my essay, ‘Fire fight at Yeonpyeong: the manufacturing of
crisis’
Tim Beal
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
n The mysteries of
n The Banco Delta
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
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
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
n
Nuclear dangers: US bombing of
nuclear plant, Japanese remilitarisation
n
Disinformation from
n
North-South software cooperation
n A new cold War in
n Echoes of
n Chinese Foregin 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,
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
n NZ and DPRK – a developing relationship
n Six Party Talks and
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
n
WFP calls for continued aid, rebuts
charges of diversion
n
The Washington-Pyongyang impasse
continues
n
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
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
n
Millions face food aid cut-off, WFP
warns
n
Special zone established in
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
n UN Appeal: Need for environment enabling transition to rehabilitation
n Harvest up 38% but aid still required
n
n
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
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
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;
n
Food situation worsens: Congressman
Hall; World Food Programme
n
n
Australian FM Downer visits
Pyongyang
n Inter-Korean relations post
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
n The Inter-Korean
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