... purpose of expanding the organization’s areas of activity
The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid can be seen as a momentous occasion not just for NATO but also for security in the Asia-Pacific. For the first time in NATO’s 73-year-long history, Japanese and South Korean leaders participated in the meeting as “Asia-Pacific partners”. For the first time, the Alliance named China a threat in their documents. However, having approached the
hic sunt dracones
(here be dragons) mark, NATO and its partners ...
The final and long-awaited decision to deploy the U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) mobile missile defence complexes in South Korea
was announced
on July 8. The stationing of these purely defence systems, which are ideally suited for the Korean theatre of military operations-to-be, has been met with strong criticism from the
Chinese
and
Russian
missions, with experts ...
... or a trench war massacre?
As If Before A Thunderstorm
In mid-February 2016, several western media announced the start of another planned military exercise on the 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 brigade and air brigade, and also an aircraft carrier battle group led by the
John C. Stennis
aircraft carrier and the
North Carolina
nuclear submarine). The exercise’s ...
On October 6, 2015, Russian International Affairs Council, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (
KIEP
) and
Carnegie Moscow Center
held roundtable "The Rise of Eurasia and Future Russian-South Korean Cooperation" with assistance of the ROK Embassy to Moscow. Timed to the 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Republic of Korea, the event offered a series of reports and presentations by diplomats,...
On September 7, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council held the presentation of the Russian-South Korean working paper "
Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
" authored by Russian Ambassador Gleb Ivashentsov and Director of Institute for
Russian
, East European and Eurasian Studies at Seoul National University Beom-Shik Shin
...
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 ...
