... policies – the federal budget deficit and spiraling federal government debt – suggests a certain correlation and causal links between the foreign and domestic political crises that the US was facing. This was especially made apparent by the ... ... address the “fiscal issues nexus” that Washington faced during the spring and autumn of 2013.
Conflict over the North Korean Nuclear Programme as the Frontline of Opposition to Budget Sequestration
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North Korea ...
... China’s strategy. The topical relevance of a historically shaped maxim on the indivisible security of China and Korea (the “lips and teeth” analogy) has gained importance recently. Beijing and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) are linked by the Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty of 1961, and its military clause is still in force, however according to China it has recently been adjusted – China’s commitments regarding the provision of direct ...
Drafted by Prof. Kiyul Chung.
On July 27, 1953, Korean War hostilities were ended only temporarily by introducing the fragile Armistice Agreement which was signed by DRPK, China and USA/UN. However, that “temporary cessation” of the deadly military conflicts has not put an end to all hostilities as it was supposed to and as was clearly stated as its intent in the 1953 document. Instead, a situation has continued of the ...
In recent days North Korea has gone much further in its rhetoric and provocations than ever before. Early March Pyongyang threatened to exercise its "right to a pre-emptive nuclear attack", then it promised to strike the United States with “smaller and ...
Pyongyang and its Opponents: From Sanctions to Dialogue
Two December news stories were, for North Korea, the symbolic highlights of 2012. Young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was voted American Time magazine readers'
Person of the Year
, winning the contest by a wide margin. And North Korea successfully launched, and put into orbit,
its artificial ...
... DPRK agrees to a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests and the uranium enrichment program, allows the return of the IAEA inspectors to their nuclear facilities while the U.S. resumes talks on the normalization of relations and provides food aid to North Korea (240 thousand tons). Such arrangements are in line with the policy of “a package deal” proposed by Russia a decade ago.
So why did North Korea, according to the U.S., the RK and Japan, only sixteen days later announce the launch of the satellite, despite ...
