... development of the DPRK’s nuclear missile program.
According to
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the U.S. does not want “North Korea to receive any military technology from Russia.” Washington clearly intends to speculate on the topic of the alleged ... ... between Russia and the DPRK or China and the DPRK. The main goal is to cultivate anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments in the Republic of Korea and Japan.
Meanwhile, Seoul and Tokyo have become the parties most affected as their ties with China are rapidly ...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's overall approach ...
... not participate in the Korean War as states.
The peace treaty on the Korean Peninsula should be the treaty of two sovereign independent states — the DPRK and the Republic of Korea. There are certain preconditions for this. A joint communique of the Republic of Korea and North Korea was issued on July 4, 1972, calling for an independent and peaceful reunification of the divided country, without depending on foreign powers and without foreign interference, on the basis of "great national unity." In December 1991,...
... Petrovsky, Dmitry Streltsov, and Alexander Fedorovsky, as well as staff of South Korean Embassy and the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Korea took part in the discussion.
The round table was moderated by Woo Yun Keun, Ambassador of South Korea. The discussion ... ... dimensions of the issues of eliminating nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, including the state and prospects of the U.S.-North Korean negotiations, the role of multilateral formats, and the positions of Russia, China, and South Korea on security issues ...
... and is the platform for dialogue and discussion on the most challenging and pressing topics at high expert level. The crisis on the Korean peninsula is still on the list of such topics.
"Journalists and general public pay great attention to the North Korean nuclear missile program, leaving aside the issue of regulating relations between the two Korean states. Though it is the improvement of relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea that is a prerequisite for resolving the crisis," — stated Gleb Ivashentsov, RIAC Vice President, Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea in 2005-2009.
In the course of a dynamic discussion, experts expressed an opinion that ...
... Korean peninsula never appeared 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 ... ... Trump and Mr Kim
, an unprecedented summit between the leaders of belligerent states.
Igor Ivanov:
With Zero Fatalism about North Korea
Much scepticism remains about the realisation of a political settlement; there have been previous ‘false dawns’ ...
... possibility of reducing the threat of an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula, and of an eventual reconciliation of the two countries, is now closer than ever before.
Washington is not looking for compromises. The United States sees negotiations with North Korea purely as a discussion of the terms of Pyongyang’s capitulation and the surrender of its nuclear trump card.
However, this process makes the denuclearization of North Korea an impossibility. In fact, it does quite the opposite, effectively ...
... may also offer the two Koreas a venue for a summit – in Vladivostok or Irkutsk, for example, since, for security reasons, Kim Jong-un cannot travel to the South and he hardly wants to travel to China, and because holding a third successive summit in North Korea is fraught with political costs for the South Korean leader.
1
. G. Toloraya. The Republic of Korea. Moscow: Mysl, 1990, p. 44.
2
. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Moscow: Nauka, 1985, pp. 260–262; Nodon sinmun, Pyongyang, 7.4.1993.
