... issue. However, this is hindered primarily by the position of the United States. While the former President Trump entered into a dialogue with Pyongyang (albeit only to boost his PR), then the current President Biden is only ready to speak with the DPRK using the language of sanctions and ultimatums. The victory in the presidential elections in South Korea in March of this year by Yoon Suk-yeol, who represents the right-wing conservative forces, who aim to completely reject his predecessor's policy regarding North Korea and unequivocally supports the US line in Korean nuclear affairs, also plays ...
On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South Korea Roundtable on the Situation with the Korean Peninsula was held in Moscow.
On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South Korea Roundtable on the Situation with the Korean Peninsula was held in Moscow.
Wi Sung Rak, former Ambassador of the Republic ...
... 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 ...
... 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 met with interlocutors
from South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone for the first face-to-face meetings between North and South since 2015. The parallels to 1914 were cemented when, a month later,
both sides fielded a joint-team at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
...
US Antipathy to Inter-Korean Rapprochement and Russia’s Role in Conflict Prevention
Thanks to the “New Year’s” initiatives of Kim Jong-un – to which South Korean Moon Jae-in responded for his own reasons – significant progress was made in the inter-Korean dialogue at the highest level during the recent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (the possibility of an inter-Korean summit is even on the table),...
... breaking out of a seemingly hopeless dead-end
2018 started with a sensation in Asia – a “New Year’s gift,” if we are to use the words of Ri Son-Gwon, head of North Korea’s delegation at the inter-Korean talks held on January 9, 2018 in the South Korean segment of the demilitarized zone in Panmunjom.
In his traditional New Year’s speech, supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un proposed that an inter-Korean dialogue be launched. The proposal was timed to the participation of North Korean ...
... the deepening economic and technological gap between the two Koreas. It was some 40 or 50 years ago that the top brass in Pyongyang were forced to come to the inevitable, albeit unpleasant conclusion, that a balance in terms of conventional arms with South Korea would be impossible to maintain in the long run. An asymmetric response to the ever-growing economic and technological superiority of the South, reinforced by the overwhelming military might of the United States, was needed. Their response ...
... Beijing would do all it can to prevent Seoul from annexing the North. Chinese troops would be on North Korean soil well before the South Korean-U.S. alliance
could take any steps
. Beijing would most likely have perfectly legal grounds to do so, acting on ... ... against any military presence of extra-regional forces in Northeast Asia and its build-up under the pretext of counteracting the DPRK’s missile and nuclear programmes.”
In effect, Russia and China explicitly called on Washington to leave Northeast Asia....
... officers from North Korea were taking part in the Syrian war, but this
information remains unconfirmed
. The participation of the South Korean military is also limited to various small peacekeeping missions.
Other Participants
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www.republicain-lorrain.... ... legal successor of the USSR. However, the old 1961 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Aid between the USSR and the DPRK was terminated. The new treaty of February 9, 2000 does not provide missile and nuclear guarantees on Russia’s part....
