... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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. ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... “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” ...
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...
... system Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok which was commissioned in September 2011. According to Russian media, Alexey Miller, head of Gazprom, made it clear that Russia has done its job regarding infrastructural preparedness to launch the pipeline to South Korea
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Second, Russia realizes that it has to diversify its energy policy. So far, Russian energy export has primarily been focused on Europe which is in severe economic hardship. Consequently, prospects for cooperation are unclear. By contrast,...
People’s Republic of China (PRC)–Japan–South Korea Free Trade Zone
Russia should closely follow the integration initiatives recently under discussion in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR). That is of paramount importance if Russia is to successfully aim its Far East strategy at the Asian integration ...
