... Federation.
Participants of the round table discussed the ways to further develop Russia-Korea relations including inter-regional cooperation between the two countries and the situation on the Korean Peninsula including North Korea nuclear issue.
The South Korean delegation was headed by Mr. Park Won Soon, Mayor of Seoul. H.E. Park Ro-byug, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation, representatives of Seoul Metropolitan Government and of the Embassy ...
... by Song Young-gil, Special Presidential Envoy of Republic of Korea. Korean delegation also included members of National Assembly, representatives of Korean Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Park Ro-byug, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Korea to Russia. Russian side was represented by Evgeny Bazhanov, Rector of Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry, Director of Russia Institute of the USA and Canada Studies Valery Garbuzov as well as Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General....
The parties paid special attention to possible military and political consequence of THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) deployment in South Korea
Andrey Kortunov and the Ambassor of Republic of Korea Discuss Ways to Reduce Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
On April 19, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Park Ro-byug, the Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia.
The meeting ...
On February 22, RIAC welcomed Yoon Young-Kwan, former Minister of foreign affairs and trade of Republic of Korea, and Wi Sung Lac, former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with the guests from Seoul.
The parties discussed the current state and prospects of Russia - Republic of Korea relations, security issues on the Korean peninsula and in the Northeast Asia as a whole.
On January 12, 2017, in Moscow Russia’s and China’s representatives agreed to take joint measures against the US missile-defense system in South Korea. Vasily Kashin shares what missile-defense system deployment on the Korean peninsula would mean for regional security and what countermeasures Moscow and Beijing may take.
At this point Russia-China agreement on joint measures to establish ...
On October 3 Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, had a meeting with Park Ro-byug, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
The following issues were covered during the meeting: Northeast Asia and particularly Korean Peninsula security issues; multilateral military and political confidence-building system of measures in the North Pacific Ocean region; possible change in the role of the USA in terms of the upcoming presidential elections; Eurasian Economic...
On August 3, 2016, RIAC Program Manager for the Arctic and Asia-Pacific Lyudmila Filippova met with representatives of the Future Consensus Institute, South Korea, among them former RoK Ambassador in Moscow Wi Sung-Lac, Vice President Cho Jung-Hun, Director of Research Kim Tai Yoo, and researcher Anna Titenok.
The participants discussed future events on the Arctic, announced their cooperation proposals ...
The final and long-awaited decision to deploy the U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) mobile missile defence complexes in South Korea
was announced
on July 8. The stationing of these purely defence systems, which are ideally suited for the Korean theatre of military operations-to-be, has been met with strong criticism from the
Chinese
and
Russian
missions, with experts ...
... or a trench war massacre?
As If Before A Thunderstorm
In mid-February 2016, several western media announced the start of another planned military exercise on the Korean peninsula, which lasted from March 7 to April 30. The
exercise
involved 290,000 South Korean and about 15,000 American troops (the
US deployed
an additional marine brigade and air brigade, and also an aircraft carrier battle group led by the
John C. Stennis
aircraft carrier and the
North Carolina
nuclear submarine). The exercise’s ...
... Asia-Pacific, among them:
— Historical, economic and strategic significance of the fastest developing territories and Russia’s New Eastern Policy (Pivot to Asia).
— Steps to be taken by Moscow to bring into balance future cooperation with South Korea and Japan vis-à-vis close cooperation with China.
— Strategic importance and economic value of the EEU’s drive to free trade agreements with Asian countries, and in particular an FTA with RoK.
— The Korean Peninsula ...
