On April 24-25, a Russian-North Korean summit will be held in Vladivostok. This meeting is long overdue, especially given the fact that Kim Jong-un has had four meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, three with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and two with Donald Trump.
On April 24-25, a Russian-North Korean summit will be held in Vladivostok. This meeting is long overdue, especially ...
... of pouring efforts into achieving stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula have not thus far translated into real action.
The Inter-Korean dialogue was advanced by two circumstances. On the one hand, having developed long-range nuclear missiles, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seems to have decided that the chief strategic objective, i.e. ensuring North Korea’s security from the U.S., had been achieved, and the nuclear missile race could be suspended. The second reason for détente was South Korea’s behaviour....
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 the very concept of denuclearization differently. According to the ...
..., 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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.
The significance of ...
“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,...
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 ...
... during the 1950-53 war. Was the CFC using 25 million people in the greater Seoul metropolitan area as human shields against North Korea? High civilian casualties are guaranteed in the event of a conflict as Pyongyang’s projectiles lack precision-guidance.... ... Imagine how they will react once even 200 South Koreans are killed in a tit-for-tat military exchange between Uncle Samael and Kim Jong-un? The lives of South Koreans naturally matter less to American uber-patriots like Senators John “I hate those Gooks” ...