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April 2007

Peter Hayes: North Korea's nuclear identity on display in parade, Choe Sang-Hun, International Herald Tribune - France, 2007-04-25

"I do not believe that Kim Jong Il will trade off nuclear weapons for mere economic benefits," said Peter Hayes, director at the Nautilus Institute, a research institute based in San Francisco. "The main benefit from becoming a self-perceived 'dignified nuclear state' that was 5,000 years in the making is political, not economic."

• Peter Hayes: Embattled North Korea Celebrates Its Military, Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times - USA, 2007-04-25

Richard Tanter: JAPAN: One step closer to revising constitution , Sonja Heydeman, Radio Australia - Australia, 2007-04-17

Australian Professor of International Affairs, Richard Tanter from RMIT says Japan's neighbours will be extremely concerned about developments.

TANTER: The fact that the ruling Liberal democratic party and its allies pushed this through the lower house of their parliament against the very vocal literally shouting opposition from the opposition parties just a matter of days after the visit by the Chinese premier is quite startling and undoubtedly China will react very strongly against this as will South Korea and probably less importantly North Korea.

Peter Hayes: Missed N Korea deadline not a deal breaker, Central Chronicle - India, 2007-04-12

"If the U.S. and DPRK concur that they are both happy with a soft deadline that retains the substance but moves it back a few weeks, then ... we will still be in agreement," said Peter Hayes, executive director of the Nautilus Institute, a think-tank that focuses on North Korea.

Richard Tanter: In the Shadow of Hiroshima, David McNeill, ZNet - USA, 2007-04-06

The half-century taboo on going to war has kept uniformed Japanese troops mostly out of the sight. "Many Japanese people are unaware of the fact that their country has an army under another name," writes Richard Tanter, senior research associate at Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, who points out that unlike America, uniformed troops are rarely seen in public here, even in Tokyo.

March 2007

Peter Hayes: White House claims on North Korea nukes to face test,Tim Johnson and Jonathan Landay, McClatchy Newspapers - USA, 2007-03-01

Another North Korea observer, Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute, a San Francisco-based group, said he believes DeTrani's message was, "They don't know what the DPRK managed to pull off with what little they actually got" by 2002.

February 2007

Peter Hayes: State of suspense: Unlocking the enigma of North Korea, The Independent - UK, 2007-02-17

Peter Hayes, director of the Nautilus Institute, says: "[A Corpse in the Koryo] is the best unclassified account of how North Korea works and why it has survived all these years when the rest of the communist world capitulated to the global market a decade ago. This novel should be required bedtime reading for President Bush and his national security team."

January 2007

Peter Hayes: Ex-spy's novel sheds light on N Korea, The Peninsula - Qatar, 2007-01-30

[Corpse in the Koryo] gives the "best unclassified account of how North Korea works and why it has survived all these years," said Peter Hayes of the California-based Nautilus Institute think tank.

Peter Hayes: North Korea: The Mystery, Glenn Kessler, The Register-Guard - USA, 2007-01-07

In fact, North Korea expert Peter Hayes - the executive director of the research group Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development - described the novel as "the best unclassified account of how North Korea works and why it has survived all these years when the rest of the communist world capitulated to the global market a decade ago."

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