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А sharp escalation of tension may occur in the near future The belligerent statements that the United States, North Korea and South Korea have been making about each other over the past few weeks, and the steps they have taken to mobilise their existing arsenals, suggest that a sharp escalation of tension may occur in the near future. In March 2022, Pyongyang successfully tested ...
... the Korean War to better handle conflict? This year marks the 70 th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. It was initially a civil war that gradually evolved into an international conflict, during which the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea. Last Friday, China commemorated the 70 th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers army entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. How to evaluate China's decision to ...
... Korean peninsula in exchange for establishing a peace and security mechanism that takes the interests of all sides into account. North Korea, whose missile programme was the focus of the talks, was primarily interested in eliminating threats to its national ... ... 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 ...
On July 5, 2018, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his visit to North Korea. According to Washington, at a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ... ... According to the United States, this is an immediate, complete and irreversible refusal of nuclear missile weapons by Pyongyang. The American media and academic circles... ... implies, among other things, the United States’ refusal to deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea in the future, calls of American ships carrying nuclear weapons into South...
... 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 ...
... aspect is connected with deployment of the ABM THAAD elements on the Korean Peninsula: while it is described formally as the ABM 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 Korean confrontation. The probability that the North Korean problem would be resolved by force has grown. Through its chief executives, the US leadership clearly voices its position, which “does ...
... 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 ... ... For decades, these programmes had their ups and downs, increased their speed and slowed down. But the overall course of the North Korean leadership remained the same, as did the international community’s outright refusal to acknowledge North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. The arrival of the Donald Trump administration, with his harsh rhetoric ...
... remains extremely complex, and a new escalation could happen at any moment. The Northeast Asian drama involves three main actors: North Korea, the United States, and China. What are the motives behind the key characters in this drama, which more often than ... ... North Korea is driven by the basic instinct of survival in the face of actual and imaginary threats on the part of the U.S. and South Korea. The only way for Pyongyang to safeguard itself against its external enemies and preserve sovereignty is to have nuclear ...
... United Arab Emirates and Oman to purchase the missiles in 2011 in 2013, respectively (the orders have yet to be fulfilled). North Korea, of course, did not go unnoticed – the U.S. Army battery was operationally deployed for the first time in April ... ... covering the U.S. strategic aviation airfield on the island. Potentially, the island is within striking distance of Korean Musadan MRBMs, and THAAD, along with Aegis-carrying ships, is the only asset that has a chance of intercepting these missiles. South Korea, of course, is also interested in buying U.S. missile complexes. The purchase and deployment of American missiles ...
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