... the round table by the staff of the Office of Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, MFA of the Republic of Korea, as well as representatives of the Embassy of South Korea in Moscow.
The discussion touched upon such issues as the state of the US-North Korea dialog, the importance of multilateral mechanisms in achieving the goal of turning the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear-weapon-free zone, possible economic development projects on the peninsula, and prospects for bilateral cooperation between ...
... of Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Fletcher School of Law 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 of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts ...
... caution. It is crucial that other parties, such as Russia, remain involved in the process — for there can be no peace on the Korean peninsula without resolving the issue of non-proliferation.
There are special reasons for Russia to be concerned by the Korean crisis. Its stake in global governance rests primarily on two assets: its permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its status as a nuclear power. A nuclear North Korea threatens to diminish both. First, the Kim regime has been openly defiant of the UN for years. A series of ever-more-stringent sanctions has not prevented it from developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. It is estimated ...
... possibility of reducing the threat of an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula, and of an eventual reconciliation of the two 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, this process makes the denuclearization of North Korea an impossibility. In fact, it does quite the opposite, effectively ...
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 ...
The regional security problem in Northeast Asia has several aspects. First, the US seeks to use the Korean crisis for exerting pressure on China. In his statements Donald Trump repeatedly emphasizes that Beijing “must” resolve ... ... defense, in the regional context such actions not so much reduce but rather increase tensions. The presence of the ABM tempts North Korea to strike first and to try to evade a retaliation blow. Thus South Korea happened to be involved in the US–North ...
On the night of November 29, 2017, the DPRK tested the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile. According to Pentagon, the missile flew about 1000 km and fell into the Sea of Japan. The North Korean military emphasizes that the Hwasong-15 is capable to carry an "extremely heavy nuclear warhead" and reach any point in the mainland of the United States. The DPRK leader Kim Jong-un after the successful test of the new Hwasong-15 ...
... possible concessions it could make. What realistic goals can be set with regard to the North Korean issue at the present time?
It would seem that the international community must rely on two basic principles when elaborating a real strategy to settle the Korean crisis. First, peace on the Korean Peninsula is more important than the nuclear disarmament of North Korea. Any other stance is not only irresponsible and immoral, but is simply criminal and should be rejected out of hand.
Second, the complete rejection of Pyongyang as a full-fledged member of the “nuclear club” does not necessarily mean a ...
