... and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Wi Son Lak.
Korean diplomats presented the new Seoul policy toward North Korea based on two pillars. Number one is peacekeeping implying adequate response to Pyongyang's actions, containment of ... ... negotiations and demonstrating possibilities for a negotiated solution to the Korean problem.
In addition to the Six-Party Talks, South Korea’s MFA has also launched the Northeast Asian Security Cooperation Initiative to revive the existing dialogue ...
... tens of millions of Korean peoples in north, south and overseas to solemnly call for the following demands:
I. The Armistice Agreement must be replaced by a Permanent Peace Treaty signed by those responsible parties such as DPRK, China and the US/UN-South Korea.
II. All those deadly destructive Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) must be removed from the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asia region once for all.
III. The Asia-Pacific region must remain and be saved for a new future of a peacefully-coexisting ...
... strengthen her positions in Northeast Asia, and help the Russian business enter multilateral projects.
Geo-economically and geopolitically, Russia’s interests have to do, first and foremost, with the prospects for building a gas pipeline into South Korea across North Korea and connecting the Trans-Korean railroad to the Trans-Siberian railway. The reforms would help complete these projects and stabilize the economic situation in North Korea. The 2012 North Korean debt negotiations, which resulted in a 90 per ...
... with that of its both partners on the peninsula will be increasingly difficult.
Conclusion
While in short-term interests of the three participating parties may be in harmony, with a lapse of time contradictions between the key priorities of Russia and South Korea on the one part and North Korea on the other will be growing.
To Russia, the gas pipeline construction to South Korea via the territory of North Korea is advantageous in many respects. Moscow is ready to start its part of the project according to its schedule as the political ...
