... Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute and former Executive Director at the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea. The discussion was moderated by Dmitry Kiku, RIAC Deputy Director General.
The second session, “Developments on the Korean Peninsula: Approaches of Moscow and Seoul,” focused on potential scenarios for ensuring long-term stability between the Republic of Korea and North Korea. Participants included Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and RIAC ...
... Korean nuclear or ballistic programs or to radically change Russia’s long-established positions on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Nuclear proliferation in any form and in any place in the world cannot meet Russia’s strategic interests. ... ... have to stay realistic about what is possible and what is not at this point. A year ago Kim Jong Un initiated changes to the DPRK Constitution explicitly emphasizing the indispensable role of nuclear weapons as a means of “national survival”. The ...
... official level. However, it is important to consider how much it will contribute to achieving the primary goal regarding the Korean Peninsula today—
preserving stability and preventing conflict
. From the perspective of Russia's long-term interests ... ... seems unlikely.
1
. K.V. Babaev, S.G. Luzyanin. A Pivot to the East. Moscow: ICCA RAS, 2024, p.135
2
. External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement //
Rodong Sinmun
, 02.07.2024
The dialogue process between the DPRK and the US is frozen, the cooperation between the North and the South is terminated
Since the beginning of 2019, the solution to the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and the issues of providing security assurances for the DPRK have made no progress. Despite several important meetings between Kim Jong-un and the leaders of the PRC, Russia, the Republic of Korea, and the United States, a full-fledged diplomatic process has not been launched.
Gleb Ivashentsov::
Prospects ...
Settling the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula is a new and unique task of global significance
The tensions that have surrounded the Korean Peninsula in recent years are among the principal threats to international security. The world once again started discussing the possibility ...
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 Korea to Russia, made a report at the event....
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 lines, beyond the niceties and magnificent optics displayed, some realities do emerge, which will indicate that it is beginning of a great gamble by both sides. This issue had crossed the limit of being a bilateral ...
The Symbiosis of Peace and Non-Proliferation in the Korean Peninsula
It was the most miraculous Christmas truce since the First World War. After a year in which the prospect of conflict on the Korean peninsula never appeared greater, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea offered an unexpected olive ...
... Director General, and Georgy Toloraya, RIAC expert and Executive Director of National Committee for BRICS Studies, with Kent Härstedt, a famous Swedish politician and a diplomat, Special Representative of Sweden on the issue of the situation on the Korean peninsula.
On October 30 the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence hosted a meeting for Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Georgy Toloraya, RIAC expert and Executive Director of National Committee for BRICS Studies, with Kent Härstedt, ...
... against the Chinese state as such, Beijing was very critical against the US actions. Another round of escalation of the Korean issue could well lead to further attempts by the Americans to press Beijing. The goal is to adjust its policy towards the DPRK, to force China to abandon North Korea's support or to increase pressure on it. Therefore, the new Chinese companies and citizens may be added to the blacklist. And Russians may be there along with them.
How likely is the escalation of US sanctions?...
