After the adoption of UN Security Council Resolutions 2270 of March 2, 2016 and 2321 of November 30, 2016, there appear many assumptions about North Korean collapse in near future. Experts in the West consider this collapse as probable and even very close.
Supposedly, the economic hardships from sanctions will cause social unrest and turmoil that will lead to the change of leadership in the North. Immediately, Pyongyang will abandon its nuclear and missile programs, all citizens will condemn and...
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- 19.12.2016 04:36:00
For many years now North Korea has been relentlessly trying to perfect its nuclear program by conducting four nuclear tests and developing ballistic missiles that could be topped with nuclear warheads.
A Russian regional security expert in Vladivostok says North Korea cannot but continue to develop nuclear weapons because it believes that is the only way to guarantee regime survival.
"It is a defensive weapon for them a political tool for survival and some extent a tool of black mailing and...
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- 14.09.2016 08:56:00
..., China and ROK as the most interested states. After trilateral consultation positions can be offered to Pyongyang. Cooperation with the USA and Japan on this occasion is justified to be limited as they seems to make profit from deterioration on the Korean Peninsula and tend to build up military reply and break regional balance. Definitely, Pyongyang isn’t attractive to the EU so we cannot expect much assistance from them.
Russia is still interested in implementation of Trans-Korean projects ...
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- 28.02.2016 13:32:00
... political terms, it would greatly contribute to normalization of inter-korean relations and possibly would shape the conditions for the resumption of dialogue between two korean states. Moreover, it also would strengthen the Moscow's role in the Korean Peninsula and, in general, in Northeast Asia, and have a positive impact on the settlement of security issues in the region.
Further development of the "Khasan-Rajin" railway project, which is a pilot part of one of the three "mega-projects" ...
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- 24.08.2015 11:59:00
Kim Jong-un is scheduled to visit Moscow this May as one of the Kremlin's numerous guests of honor for the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. This will be his first visit abroad since he succeeded his father Kim Jong-il as the ruler of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in December 2011.
Kim Jong-un's trip to Moscow is one indication of the warming relationship between Russia and North Korea. The past year has seen a flurry of high-level exchanges...
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- 08.04.2015 10:52:00
... Geun-hye announced the Eurasia Initiative. Both concerns and hopes have been expressed on the subject. The Eurasia Initiative aspires to create an amicable international atmosphere for the reunification of the two Koreas, as well as to stabilize the Korean Peninsula through economic cooperation with countries to the north. It also aims to build new momentum for the South Korean economy by incorporating it with the economies of the Eurasian continent. Critics claim that it is no different from the ...
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- 02.03.2015 05:40:00
North Korea still remains a mystery to much of the outside world. It is concealed behind the Iron Curtain, and very few have managed to peak through. In late 2014, I had an opportunity as a tourist to take a glimpse behind the curtain in an attempt to observe the ordinary lives of North Koreans.
Prior to the trip, I always assumed I would be on a well-orchestrated group tour to the major communist attractions the North wanted to show off. The kind of tour where every footstep is carefully planned...
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- 15.01.2015 10:20:00
According to the classical ‘arms race’ theory by Lewis Richardson, military preparations of one’s side are directly proportional to rival’s potential and inversely – to its own accumulated arsenals. However differential equations don’t leave space for political choice as mathematically there can be only three possible scenarios: arms race, mutual disarmament or parity. The one valuable note made by Richardson after the World War I that nations tend to accumulate...
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- 22.09.2014 07:44:00
It was on 30 August 2011, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) issued a landmark decision on a case of former comfort women claiming compensation from the Japanese government. In view of obtaining compensations for former comfort women, the Court ordered the South Korean Government “to take steps for dispute settlement under Article 3 of the Agreement [of 1965 on the settlement of post-colonial claims]1).”2) That article provides that “any dispute between...
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- 10.09.2013 14:57:00
