... members will need to assist in resolving this problem. Generally, South Korea raised the issue of North Korea’s denuclearization at every event at the Madrid Summit, including the plenary session, the three-party meeting between the leaders of the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, and a dozen of bilateral talks.
In turn, in order to bolster European security,
Seoul is ready
to expand its economic interactions with NATO states—in particular, to ensure uninterrupted deliveries of semi-conductors—assist in building ...
... in North Korea at the time) remained up in the air. The parties recognized North Korea’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and they agreed to discuss the possibility of supplying the country with a light-water reactor. The United States, Japan and South Korea also undertook to normalize their relations with North Korea, provided that the latter returns to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and agrees to operate under the supervision of the International ...
... a closed-loop. Thus, the manufacture of competitive hi-tech products today is impossible within a single economy, and Chinese companies depend on parts coming from other Asian countries
Tracing the entire technological chain, we can assume that the Japan–South Korea conflict is closely linked to the trade war between China and the United States. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is
hindered by the restrictions
on deliveries of Huawei memory chips since the latter is under U.S. sanctions. In turn, interrupting ...
... enter any multilateral agreements, and bilateral agreements would be built on the principle of fairness and reciprocity.
Andrey Kortunov:
Pyongyang is Starts and Wins. What Can the Losers Do?
In addition, Trump acted as a salesman, literally pushing Japan and South Korea into huge multi-billion dollar arms-purchasing deals. In China, protocols of intent were approved and agreements worth over $250 billion were achieved. Of course, not all of these deals will go through, but this was a symbolic event in and ...
... for concern here? Could a conflict between both Koreas that is capable of drawing the world’s leading powers of China, Japan and Russia in erupt on Russia’s doorstep? Could such a conflict involve weapons of mass destruction?
Today, we can ... ... peninsula failed, any hopes of achieving real peace (including in the legal sense) in the region also vanished. For both North and South Korea, the war never ended. Tensions rise and fall like the seasons change. But today, hardly anyone actually believes that ...
... kilometres from our borders. And a number of “threshold” and “pre-threshold” states may try to follow the example set by North Korea by developing their own nuclear programmes and purchasing nuclear weapons. Powerful groups in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are already calling for their respective countries to establish nuclear capabilities. And by no means can we allow problem states or organizations to get their hands on nuclear technology or parts that has been developed in Pyongyang....
... Thus Japan declares its readiness to fight on the side of the USA without weapons.
The USA’s second important objective aimed at building an effective security system in the Asia-Pacific region is to dampen down the worsening conflict between Japan and South Korea, since effective cooperation between these two countries is vitally important for the Americans. In years gone by the USA focused on bilateral security treaties, creating the so-called “umbrella spokes”, but now the time has come ...
... interest vested in the formation of the said group. Beijing is given a very real opportunity to prove the validity of its ambitions for recognizing the RMB (Ren Min Bi) as the key regional currency. China is promoting the project for creating the China-Japan-South Korea FTZ even though it may become a serious competitor to the already existing PRC-ASEAN FTZ. For China, the main and most attractive bonus of the NEA trilateral project is Japan’s and South Korea’s more powerful economic and technological ...
