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“The Kremlin really believes the North Korean leadership should get additional assurances and confidence that the United States is not in the regime change business,” Andrey Kortunov, head of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think-tank close to the Russian Foreign Ministry,...
The reasoning that the North Korean nuclear issue does not have a political solution actually means that the advocates of such position simply do not have the desire to seek solutions or work on their implementation Today, the whole world is following the dramatic events ...
... will again condemn nuclear tests as it unanimously criticized the recent missile launches. However, current events reveal contradictions between key players. Chinese and Russian companies have already been subjected to US sanctions for their ties with North Korea. The Americans want to force China and Russia to show great energy in pressure on North Korea and consider sanctions against them as one of the key measures. The further escalation from Pyongyang risks causing unintended consequences - escalation ...
RIAC Poll Escalation on the Korean peninsula may lead to a full-scale armed conflict. What solution could settle the crisis at this point?
... signals regarding its willingness to seek a solution using political and diplomatic means. At the same time, the situation remains extremely complex, and a new escalation could happen at any moment. The Northeast Asian drama involves three main actors: North Korea, the United States, and China. What are the motives behind the key characters in this drama, which more often than not smacks of farce? North Korea is driven by the basic instinct of survival in the face of actual and imaginary threats on ...
We are Crazy, so Waltz Me Around Again Willy! A few weeks ago, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson proclaimed the ending of the doctrine of strategic patience with rogue regimes like nuclear North Korea. At the U.N., however, he seemed to be suggesting we can seek a resolution of the crisis through economic pressure and diplomacy. In response, the North Korean regime fired a ballistic missile. It exploded but the response tells all about ...
... to the East with alarm? How will you reverse this trend with one master stroke, and temporarily staunch the decline of Pax Americana? A rapid socio-economic meltdown across Asia might produce this hypothetical outcome, and this is where the current North Korean “crisis” may provide an opening gambit. Amidst “rising tensions” in the Korean Peninsula – while South Koreans are concerned with noodles, not nukes – the United States has pre-emptively decided what is best for the region. But ...
... debate among observers wondering what was behind Xi's silence. "Xi can't fail to be impressed by Trump's resolve. Xi will have to reassess what the Trump presidency means for Chinese interests in East Asia, particularly North Korea and the South China Sea," Australian military analyst Alan Dupont suggested, as cited by the New York Times. Malaysian geopolitical analyst Mathew Maavak commented on the matter in his recent interview with Sputnik. "I think ...
... the US-South Korea THAAD agreement, if not its full repeal. American THAAD is hardly capable of ensuring the defense of the most important objects and populated areas on Korean territory. Aiming to protect an extremely expensive object from a possible North Korean long-range artillery attack, multiple rocket launcher systems and many shorter-range rockets, it was decided to deploy THAAD at a considerable distance from demilitarized zone. www.mda.mil Alexander Yermakov: Have Rockets, Will Quarrel China’s ...
... game-changer in the region. The Missile Defence Issue The announcement that South Korea had agreed, under pressure from the United Stated, to deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the south of the country to counter the “North Korean missile threat” was made in July, when a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Park Geun-hye had already been fixed. Moscow chose not to cancel the meeting on these grounds, especially since it was important for Russia to demonstrate ...
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