... of the international community should now be directed to an immediate start of a direct dialogue with Pyongyang on the whole range of issues related to ensuring regional security, including, of course, the establishment of nuclear-free status of the Korean peninsula. As noted, there has been experience of constructive interaction with the North Korean leadership. Russia and China have come forward with a joint initiative to resolve the issues of the Korean peninsula, including the nuclear issue, for the sake of lasting peace and stability in Northeast Asia. This initiative might become ...
... will again condemn nuclear tests as it unanimously criticized the recent missile launches. However, current events reveal contradictions between key players. Chinese and Russian companies have already been subjected to US sanctions for their ties with North Korea. The Americans want to force China and Russia to show great energy in pressure on North Korea and consider sanctions against them as one of the key measures. The further escalation from Pyongyang risks causing unintended consequences - escalation ...
RIAC Poll
Escalation on the Korean peninsula may lead to a full-scale armed conflict.
What solution could settle the crisis at this point?
... Taipei, which effectively continues to this day.
China is not going to let North Korea disappear from the political map, and will continue to view that country as its geopolitical asset for at least as long as Beijing's rivalry with Washington for the Korean Peninsula and all of East Asia continues. Should North Korea be destabilised from the inside with the threat of the disintegration of the political regime and nationhood, Beijing would do all it can to prevent Seoul from annexing the North. Chinese troops would be on North Korean soil well before the ...
... question” in the broad sense now. Rather, their goals are more specific – to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula which, as far as Washington, Seoul and Japan are concerned, means the full and complete nuclear disarmament of North Korea.
The Nuclear Issue on the Korean Peninsula
While there is no justification for North Korea’s nuclear programme, its emergence is largely explainable. At a time when the United States has assumed the right to unilaterally use military force against states that it deems undesirable,...
