... issue. However, this is hindered primarily by the position of the United States. While the former President Trump entered into a dialogue with Pyongyang (albeit only to boost his PR), then the current President Biden is only ready to speak with the DPRK using the language of sanctions and ultimatums. The victory in the presidential elections in South Korea in March of this year by Yoon Suk-yeol, who represents the right-wing conservative forces, who aim to completely reject his predecessor's policy regarding North Korea and unequivocally supports the US line in Korean nuclear affairs, also plays a negative role.
The situation around the Korean Peninsula in the current conditions cannot but be affected by the aggravation of China's relations with the US or ...
On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South Korea Roundtable on the Situation with the Korean Peninsula was held in Moscow.
On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South ... ... dimensions of the issues of eliminating nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, including the state and prospects of the U.S.-North Korean negotiations, the role of multilateral formats, and the positions of Russia, China, and South Korea on security issues ...
... and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The discussion was devoted to Russia-the U.S. relations, as well as the situation around North Korea.
On March 21, 2018, RIAC hosted a meeting for the students of the Joint Educational Module of Moscow State Institute ... ... 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,...
... Leader Kim Jong-un hinted at rapprochement in
his New Year address
; eight days later,
his envoy met with interlocutors
from South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone for the first face-to-face meetings between North and South since ... ... 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’ ...
... Rapprochement and Russia’s Role in Conflict Prevention
Thanks to the “New Year’s” initiatives of Kim Jong-un – to which South Korean Moon Jae-in responded for his own reasons – significant progress was made in the inter-Korean dialogue at the highest ... ... 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,...
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 dialogue be launched. The proposal was timed to the participation of North 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 ... ... Pyongyang were forced to come to the inevitable, albeit unpleasant conclusion, that a balance in terms of conventional arms with South Korea would be impossible to maintain in the long run. An asymmetric response to the ever-growing economic and technological ...
... from annexing the North. Chinese troops would be on North Korean soil well before the South Korean-U.S. alliance
could take any steps
. Beijing would most likely have perfectly... ... grounds to do so, acting on an invitation from and with the consent of Pyongyang. The North Korean elites would be more likely to choose China's protectorate as a more appealing... ... extra-regional forces in Northeast Asia and its build-up under the pretext of counteracting the DPRK’s missile and nuclear programmes.”
In effect, Russia and China explicitly called...
... Korean peninsula, which lasted from March 7 to April 30. The
exercise
involved 290,000 South Korean and about 15,000 American troops (the
US deployed
an additional marine... ... traditional coordination training of South Korean and American troops in case of war with North Korea, drilling tactical moves, and using new equipment.
It should be noted that... ... old 1961 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Aid between the USSR and the DPRK was terminated. The new treaty of February 9, 2000 does not provide missile and...
