... to South Korea, with the aim of agreeing on a new kind of relationship. But the conservative leadership of South Korea is uncompromising – the only way out of the situation, as they see it, is to unify the two countries, or, more precisely, for South Korea to absorb North Korea. All the while North Korea remains in isolation, with almost no allies. Even China has expressed growing dissatisfaction with Pyongyang.
For Pyongyang, the foreign policy ideal is to achieve recognition from Washington. It is only through ...
Working Paper 25/2015
In 2015 Russia and South Korea celebrate the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations. Much has been accomplished, but significant potential for collaboration in Northeast Asia to address new and traditional threats remains untapped.
In this analytical paper ...
... capabilities. And by no means can we allow problem states or organizations to get their hands on nuclear technology or parts that has been developed in Pyongyang.
Russia does not recognize North Korea as a nuclear power, and in 2003 it joined China, North Korea, South Korea, the United States and Japan for six-part talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme. The joint statement issued by the group on September 19, 2005 contained a constructive basis not only for ensuring the denuclearization of the Korean ...
On April 20, 2015, South Korean Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo was forced to resign amid a corruption scandal. While corruption is part and parcel of political life in South Korea, this latest resignation differs somewhat from previous ones.
It should be noted that the role ...
... Korean Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Moscow, had his second meeting with RIAC’s members and experts. Their first discussion took place on June 17, 2014.
The Russian team included RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, former Russian Ambassador to South Korea Gleb Ivashentsov, former Russian Ambassador to North Korea Valery Sukhinin and Alexander Zhebin, Head of the Center for Korean Studies at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
The debate focused on the inter-Korean relations, security and nonproliferation in the Korean Peninsula, approaches of great ...
... activities, threatening to fire at the balloon launch sites.
Voanews.com / AP
North Korean defectors prepare to release
balloons carrying leaflets condemning North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his
government's policies, in Paju, near the border
with North Korea, South Korea, Oct. 10, 2014
This time, activists with the
Fighters for Free North Korea
movement directed ten huge balloons carrying a total of 200,000 leaflets towards the DPRK. North Korea responded with small arms fire aiming exclusively at the balloons,...
Interview with Alexander Vorontsov
Interview
While the situation around the People’s Republic of North Korea remains in a state of stalemate, South Korea has become one of the most rapidly growing centres in Asia which cooperates with Russia. The uncertain future of Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and its economic relations with South Korea have been increasingly in the focus of attention ...
... Korean War, squandering its achievements in this particular diplomatic game over a battlefield 60 years after the fighting ended, and betraying the memory of nearly one million Chinese killed in action in Korea. The loss of Pyongyang and assimilation of North Korea by South Korea would also inflict irreparable damage to China’s international prestige. It would imply that China is unable to defend its core national interests and bends to U.S. will even on its borders or when defending its ally.
It would be extremely ...
... a dialogue between the North and the South. During a visit in Washington in May 2013, ROK President Park
Geun-hye confirmed
the continuation of “promoting creation of trust”, although stressing the unacceptability of nuclear weapons in North Korea and Pyongyang's provocations. South Korea started talking about the need for greater realism in dealing with the North; the inadmissibility of relying on sanctions only; overcoming the lack of initiative; favored gradualism (as opposed to Lee Myung-bak’s demagogic appeals to ...
... with North Korea’s chief overseas bank. Does it mean that North Korea’s most important economic supporter, food and energy supplier has lost its patience and is ready to go for the regime’s financial jugular?
Photo: guardian.co.uk
North Korea vs. South Korea graphic
Chinese experts that I spoke with during my recent visit to the region told me that their governments have not really changed the substance of their policy. The rhetoric has become a bit firmer, they closed down some banks, they tightened ...
