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North Korea's Cyber

How DPRK Created World's Most Effective Cyber Forces In 2016, when a spelling error stopped North Korean hackers from stealing USD 1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Internet users made fun of the programmers. However, experts involved in the investigation of cybercrimes are not laughing: as of today, Pyongyang has one of the ...

03.08.2018

Mission Possible? Us State Secretary goes to Pyongyang again

On July 5, 2018, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his visit to North Korea. According to Washington, at a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un he would seek Pyongyang’s agreement on a denuclearization “road map.” However, how can such a mission be accomplished? First of all, the US and the DPRK understand ...

06.07.2018

Trump-Kim Summit: A Breakthrough or Just a ‘Prelude to Peace?’

..., without doubt, a historic event, if only because the two heads of state never met before and relations between Washington and Pyongyang were on the brink of an armed conflict involving the use of nuclear missiles. It looks like the threat of a US-North Korean nuclear conflict has been removed. President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, while Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Under their Singapore ...

18.06.2018

North Korea's Nuclear, A View from Moscow

Russia firmly believes there’s no other way to settle the North Korean issue but through diplomacy The North Korean nuclear problem has been one of the most critical modern-day international security issues: the risk of a nuclear war is high and real. Historically, Moscow has played an important role in mediation ...

14.06.2018

Trump — Kim Summit: A Gamble beyond Optics

US and North Korea have called the Summit a historic success, but it was also a compulsion in light of lack of alternatives The world is talking of this Summit as a historic moment with hopes that it will bring peace to Korean Peninsula. Reading between the ...

14.06.2018

Improving Relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea is a Prerequisite for Resolving the Korean Crisis

... 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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts ...

23.03.2018

Not Just for Christmas

... football). But the biggest breakthrough came in early March with the announcement of a potential meeting between US President Donald 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’ before in 2012, 2005 and 1994 . But far greater is the risk that the relatively untested presidents of South Korea and the ...

22.03.2018

Washington-Pyongyang Talks: Guarantees Are Required

... before and in course of the negotiations Chung Eui-yong, Head of the National Security Office under the president of South Korea, said, while speaking to reporters in Washington, that president Trump had expressed his agreement to hold a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un until May. According to Valdai Club expert Gleb Ivashentsov, there are many obstacles for the meeting, and we have to wait for what the DPRK will say and how the US will behave before and in course of the negotiations. ...

19.03.2018

Korea after the Olympics: Temporary Truce or Permanent Peace?

... 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 ...

07.03.2018
 

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