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... relations between North Korea and the United States, the role of Russia and China in solving the DPRK nuclear problem and in implementing large-scale economic projects on the Korean Peninsula. Various aspects of bilateral relations between Russia and South Korea and the possibility for expanding cooperation between independent think tanks of the two countries were also touched upon.
Suh Choo Suk, Vice Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Korea, delivered a speech that was followed by an expert discussion on the regional security and prospects for the two state’s cooperation On August 29, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a roundtable discussion regarding the situation on the Korean peninsula and Russian-Korean relations. Suh Choo Suk, Vice Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Korea, delivered a speech that was followed by an expert...
... an agreement between the commanders-in-chief of the two armies to suspend military hostilities. Two powerful military contingents with cutting-edge weapons and equipment are still at the ready on both sides of the 38th parallel that divides North and South Korea. And these contingents are not just made up of Korean troops. Under the Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea, U.S. contingent of 28,500 troops is deployed in South Korea. When Pyongyang started to develop ...
... Korean Peninsula – both the North and the South. This formula is included into the Trump-Kim joint statement following the results of the Singapore summit. This 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 Korean ports, and the direction of strategic bombers into the Korean airspace. The North Korean leader also noted that Pyongyang would abandon its nuclear weapons, ...
On March 21, 2018, RIAC hosted a meeting for the students of the Joint Educational Module of Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The discussion was devoted to Russia-the U.S. relations, as well as the situation around North Korea. On March 21, 2018, RIAC hosted a meeting for the students of the Joint Educational Module of Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the...
... greater, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea offered an unexpected olive branch to the Republic of Korea. Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un hinted at rapprochement in his New Year address ; eight days later, his envoy met with interlocutors from South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone for the first face-to-face meetings between North and South since 2015. The parallels to 1914 were cemented when, a month later, both sides fielded a joint-team at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics ...
US Antipathy to Inter-Korean 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 level during the recent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (the possibility of an inter-Korean summit is even on the table),...
The parties discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as prospects for cooperation between the two think tanks. On February 2, 2018, Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), held a meeting with Lee Sihyung, President of the Korea Foundation . Prof. Eom Gu Ho, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University, as well as officers of the Korea Foundation also took part in the...
... Eastern Studies, Alexander Vorontsov, Head of Korea and Mongolia Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, and other leading experts on Russia-Korea relations and security issues in Northeast Asia took part in the discussions on the Russian side. South Korea was represented by Gu Ho Eom, Head of Asia-Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University, Ko Je Nam and Shin Beom-chul, Professors at Korea National Diplomatic Academy, as well as experts on international affairs from the leading Korean universities ...
... of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation Yoon-keun Woo and diplomats of the Embassy. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Coordinator, also took part in the meeting. The discussion focused on Russia – South Korea relations, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and the prospects for the inter-Korean normalization, as well as on the pending issues of Russia – U.S. and Russia – EU ties.
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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