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In recent days North Korea has gone much further in its rhetoric and provocations than ever before. Early March Pyongyang threatened to exercise its "right to a pre-emptive nuclear attack", then it promised to strike the United States with “smaller and ...
North Korea is notorious for its human rights’ violations, labor camps, bizarre provocations of the United States and a blind worship of its leaders. And these topics, of course, catch attention of Western media that usually portrays North Korea ...
The tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear program continues to escalate. Last year it proclaimed itself a nuclear state in its constitution and then successfully launched a space rocket that is only a little different from one that could carry a warhead. If this months’ ...
A couple of decades ago North Korea was a country barely noticeable to anyone in the world. Today it is on everyone’s radar screen. And its leader Kim Jong-un, “the sun of the 21st century”, brightly shined in headlines of all morning papers after North Korea ...
Pyongyang and its Opponents: From Sanctions to Dialogue Two December news stories were, for North Korea, the symbolic highlights of 2012. Young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was voted American Time magazine readers' Person of the Year , winning the contest by a wide margin. And North Korea successfully launched, and put into orbit, its artificial ...
... foreign and internal security, but not interfering in the political or economic agendas. The party was called upon to control the state governance and the cabinet of ministers to deal with the economy. All that gave rise to hopes there might be reforms in North Korea, particularly given the start of a discussion of “economic measures”. However by autumn the process appears to have stalled and any possibility of change in North Korea today remains mute. Dilemmas Kim Jong-un faces Will Kim Jr....
... Davydovich Toloraya, Head, Regional projects department, Russky Mir Foundation; Director, Korean Studies, RAS Economics Institute – On 17 September, Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea signed an agreement on settlement of North Korea’s debt to Russia worth $11 billion. What are the reasons for Russia’s forgiveness of North Korea’s debt? Why did it happen at this particular moment in time? – This news is not, in fact, new at all. Arrangements on ...
... timing for the gas pipeline construction is opportune, and by its implementation Moscow can receive a number of tangible benefits. Strengths and weaknesses pipelinesinternational.com A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Gazprom and North Korea’s Ministry of Oil Industry for the construction of a gas pipeline between Russia and the Korean Peninsula. Russia’s position regarding the gas pipeline construction has both strong and weak points. The former relate to technical ...
What’s on Pyongyang’s mind? The nascent hopes for the resumption of the diplomatic process on the Korean peninsula in compliance with the US-North Korean agreements reached by the end of February 2012 and for the improvement of relations between Korea and the US were dashed by the DPRK's unexpected announcement of the intention to launch a satellite on March 16 prone with the aggravation of ...
... contribution of cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Federation as a new factor of Asia-Pacific stability deserves special attention. The study of whether and how it can influence the evolution of the North Korean nuclear problem seems to be a timely exercise. The paper consists of three parts. Part One assesses the impact of the stalemate in the Six-Party Talks on Russia’s interests and outlines a number of nuances in its approach to these negotiations....
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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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