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Russian-Korean investment cooperation

Russian-South Korean trade and economic relations Compared to the Russian-South Korean trade recovery duringмthe beginning of the 19thcentury, current bilateral investment appears to be developing rather slowly and remains an extremely unbalanced area of cooperation ...

11.09.2013

Russian-Korean Relations in Regional Context

... and Plenipotentiary, as well as Georgy Toloraya, Director of Korean Programs at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Evgeny Kanayev, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations. The South Korean delegation included representatives of major think tanks – Seoul National University and Catholic University of Korea – and top officials of South Korean Ministry of Foregn Affairs. Opened by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov ...

20.08.2013

RIAC Holds Workshop for Military Students from Republic of Korea

... of Major Du Jin-ho, student of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Combined Arms Academy. Moderated by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev, the event covered key issues of current international relations, trends and main guidelines of Russian and South Korean foreign policy.

20.08.2013

Inter-Korean Dialogue and Reconciliation Prospects

... the North Korean regime and the unification on terms of the South was not far off. Although Seoul does understand that an avalanche of unification will not only incur inevitable casualties among the North Korean elite, but will also cause problems for South Korea, which the latter will be unable to cope with. Even if reunification takes place relatively peacefully and centers of resistance are rapidly suppressed, a unified Korea risks a loss of global competitiveness, since hundreds of billions of ...

16.07.2013

Pyongyang’s Mood Swings

Interview Dr. Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute Interview In March-April Pyongyang sharply increased its combative rhetoric, declaring a new state of war with South Korea and threatening its enemies with the thermonuclear catastrophe. Recently North Korea have toned down its verbal threats and indicated that it wants peace treaty with South Korea. In this interview Dr. Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow at Hudson ...

03.07.2013

South Korea’s New Northern Policy

... capabilities and forcing the regime to cooperate by sanctions. The second pillar is peacebuilding, which means openness to negotiations and demonstrating possibilities for a negotiated solution to the Korean problem. In addition to the Six-Party Talks, South Korea’s MFA has also launched the Northeast Asian Security Cooperation Initiative to revive the existing dialogue mechanisms in Asia Pacific. Highly esteemed by the Korean side, the Russian participants were invited to support the scheme. ...

02.07.2013

Expert Meeting on Relations between Russia and Republic of Korea

On May 13, RIAC hosted an expert meeting on Russia-South Korea relations moderated by Head of RIAC project “Russia and Republic of Korea: an Outlook for Bilateral Relations” and Director of the Russian APEC Study Center Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Gleb Ivashentsov and opened by RIAC ...

14.05.2013

A Global Campaign to Call for a Peace Treaty: No to War on Korean Peninsula and in the whole Northeast Asian Region

... tens of millions of Korean peoples in north, south and overseas to solemnly call for the following demands: I. The Armistice Agreement must be replaced by a Permanent Peace Treaty signed by those responsible parties such as DPRK, China and the US/UN-South Korea. II. All those deadly destructive Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) must be removed from the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asia region once for all. III. The Asia-Pacific region must remain and be saved for a new future of a peacefully-coexisting ...

13.05.2013

Will North Korea Embrace Reforms?

... “disloyal”, inspectors sent around to “instil fear”, and stepping up the fight against “enemy ideology”, speak rather of an attempt to tighten the screw than liberalise. The geopolitical position of the country bordering on South Korea, which strategically is poised to take over the North, does not allow for any experiments that might challenge the security of the regime. It was officially announced that any rumours about ground-breaking reforms were “silly dreams” ...

09.11.2012

Andrey Kortunov spoke at an international conference on development of global finance, energy, and sustainable development

On 21 September, at an opening of the international conference in Seoul on global finance, energy, and sustainable development in the context of Russia’s forthcoming G20 presidency RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov made a welcome speech. Among participants in the conference organized by Korea Development Institute in cooperation with Korea University were officials of the Republic of Korea, representatives of the academic and educational community from the G20 countries, leaders of public...

25.09.2012
 

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