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How DPRK Created World's Most Effective Cyber Forces In 2016, when a spelling error stopped North Korean hackers from stealing USD 1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Internet users made fun of the programmers. However, experts involved in the investigation of cybercrimes are not laughing: as of today, Pyongyang has one of the ...
... non-proliferation multilateral regime. It joined the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1994, ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2002, and became party to the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2004 . The DPRK began to pursue nuclear weapons in 1963, but their requests for help in this endeavor were denied by both China and the Soviet Union. Soviet scientists were sent in early to help North Korea develop peaceful nuclear energy. In 1985, North Korea ratified the NPT, but refused to include the IAEA safeguard agreement until 1992. The country was largely noncompliant with the NPT and continued to pursue nuclear weapons. In 1994, the ...
... from the West, the bilateral cooperation between the two countries has been rising on different levels. Although total trade turnover never recovered completely, amounting to $81 billion in 2012, Russia provides an annual quota of 35 thousand jobs for North Korean workers and educates dozens of DPRK’s future leaders. In May 2014, Moscow wrote off North Korean debt to Russia and the two countries signed an agreement hinting at a departure from the US dollar as an accounting currency. All transactions between Russia and the DPRK would now be ...
US and North Korea have called the Summit a historic success, but it was also a compulsion in light of lack of alternatives The world is talking of this Summit as a historic moment with hopes that it will bring peace to Korean Peninsula. Reading between the ...
... and is the platform for dialogue and discussion on the most challenging and pressing topics at high expert level. The crisis on the Korean peninsula is still on the list of such topics. "Journalists and general public pay great attention to the North Korean nuclear missile program, leaving aside the issue of regulating relations between the two Korean states. Though it is the improvement of relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea that is a prerequisite for resolving the crisis," — stated Gleb Ivashentsov, RIAC Vice President, Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea in 2005-2009. In the course of a dynamic discussion, experts expressed ...
... football). But the biggest breakthrough came in early March with the announcement of a potential meeting between US President Donald Trump and Mr Kim , an unprecedented summit between the leaders of belligerent states. Igor Ivanov: With Zero Fatalism about North Korea Much scepticism remains about the realisation of a political settlement; there have been previous ‘false dawns’ before in 2012, 2005 and 1994 . But far greater is the risk that the relatively untested presidents of South Korea and the ...
... Gleb Ivashentsov, there are many obstacles for the meeting, and we have to wait for what the DPRK will say and how the US will behave before and in course of the negotiations. The significance of reports on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be overestimated. The US president said that the DPRK leader is ready to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with him. But Kim Jong-un himself did not publicly state anything on the issue. The relevant information comes only from the South Korean side. But here, there is nothing new: over ...
... possibility of reducing the threat of an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula, and of an eventual reconciliation of the two countries, is now closer than ever before. Washington is not looking for compromises. The United States sees negotiations with North Korea purely as a discussion of the terms of Pyongyang’s capitulation and the surrender of its nuclear trump card. However, this process makes the denuclearization of North Korea an impossibility. In fact, it does quite the opposite, effectively ...
Kim Jong-un played a brilliant diplomatic gambit, breaking out of a seemingly hopeless dead-end 2018 started with a sensation in Asia – a “New Year’s gift,” if we are to use the words of Ri Son-Gwon, head of North Korea’s delegation at the inter-Korean talks held on January 9, 2018 in the South Korean segment of the demilitarized zone in Panmunjom. In his traditional New Year’s speech, supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un proposed that an inter-Korean ...
The Dialogue with the North Korean Leadership Now Has to be Conducted from a Position of Weakness, Rather than one of Strength The crisis unfolding before our very eyes with regard to North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs did not appear today, or even yesterday....
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