... of unilateral sanctions, hegemony and confrontation, Russia and China should strengthen strategic cooperation.” The involvement of the DPRK, which has also found itself “in the crosshairs” of the U.S. and its allies, was a logical development.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia in September 2023 and Foreign Minister Lavrov’s October trip to Pyongyang have already been covered in the Western, Japanese and South Korean media with most unthinkable details. To be sure, Moscow and Beijing proceed from pragmatic considerations ...
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 ...
... automatically converted into dividends for Pyongyang. But the West appears now as a much more dangerous adversary, which has turned into the main “world villain” for it, covering the DPRK with its giant shadow. It is possible that in relations with Russia, North Korea will try to achieve tactical advantages. For example, Western pressure may encourage Moscow to turn a blind eye to oil supplies to its neighbour, to the employment of Korean workers, to the influx of foreign exchange earnings, to access to ...
... and was prepared to withstand serious international pressure was able to achieve its goal, provided it stayed the course. The North Korean regime learned one thing about nuclear deterrence: all you need to do to deter the world’s most powerful country ... ... and communications instead of treaties
Formal arms control treaties are becoming a thing of the past. Developing a new U.S.-Russian treaty to succeed New START will be extremely difficult, given the complexity of the issues involved, and the poisonous ...
What lessons can Russia and Chine draw from the Korean War to better handle conflict?
This year marks the 70
th
anniversary of the outbreak of ... ... initially a civil war that gradually evolved into an international conflict, during which the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea. Last Friday, China commemorated the 70
th
anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers army entering the Democratic ...
... was categorically rejected by the North Korean leadership." Like they said, ‘there will no more bargaining’ […] which effectively turned out to be an
ultimatum
on completely reformatting the fundamental approaches to the regulation of the North Korean nuclear issue.”
Russian experts would do well to scrutinize the current situation in order to bring the strategy in line with reality, at least at the doctrinal level. This, of course, does not mean that the goal of denuclearization, which is so important for the non-proliferation ...
... the United States, Democratic candidate Joe Biden spoke about this as well [
vii
]. The US administration promptly released a list of exceptions to its sanctions, many of which were in place long before the pandemic. They concern Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Russia [
viii
]. A joint US-Swiss relief supply channel for Iran has become operational [
ix
]. We saw the first transactions based on INSTEX, a long-awaited channel for humanitarian transactions with Iran created by Great Britain, France and Germany ...
Policy Brief #27 / 2020
Policy Brief #27 / 2020
Executive Summary
— The report asesses the risks of sanctions against Russia over the year.
— By 2020, the use of sanctions against Russia had gained much more stability compared to previous years. The damage caused by the new restrictive measures can be considered limited. The key issue is whether the situation in the ...
... obtaining such a licence is not itself a solution to the problem. This much was clear before the pandemic began with the case of North Korea. Even though the UN Sanctions Committee
approved
applications for humanitarian exemptions, a host of problems arose—bank ... ... and individual countries, concrete Security Council resolutions are needed.
As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia could spearhead the process. It has at least submitted a draft COVID-19 resolution to the UN General Assembly. However,...
... will highlight the following points. Cyber operations intended to coerce are a small subset of overall cyber operations globally. Espionage remains the predominant purpose of states’ cyber operations. Despite that, the authors think that states like Russia and North Korea appear to be more likely to have used cyber operations as a coercive tool than China and Iran. The authors also find that, contrary to what coercion theory would predict, states do not make distinct threats with unambiguous demands for changes ...
