... political terms, it would greatly contribute to normalization of inter-korean relations and possibly would shape the conditions for the resumption of dialogue between two korean states. Moreover, it also would strengthen the Moscow's role in the Korean Peninsula and, in general, in Northeast Asia, and have a positive impact on the settlement of security issues in the region.
Further development of the "Khasan-Rajin" railway project, which is a pilot part of one of the three "mega-projects" ...
... Collective Defense Agreement, more than 25,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed on South Korean soil under the command of the United States Forces Korea (USFK), which is headed by an American general. In the event that an armed conflict breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces will fall under his command. The military standoff between North and South Korea is the main threat to security in Southeast Asia. And this threat has only intensified in recent times as a result of ...
Kim Jong-un is scheduled to visit Moscow this May as one of the Kremlin's numerous guests of honor for the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. This will be his first visit abroad since he succeeded his father Kim Jong-il as the ruler of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in December 2011.
Kim Jong-un's trip to Moscow is one indication of the warming relationship between Russia and North Korea. The past year has seen a flurry of high-level exchanges...
... Geun-hye announced the Eurasia Initiative. Both concerns and hopes have been expressed on the subject. The Eurasia Initiative aspires to create an amicable international atmosphere for the reunification of the two Koreas, as well as to stabilize the Korean Peninsula through economic cooperation with countries to the north. It also aims to build new momentum for the South Korean economy by incorporating it with the economies of the Eurasian continent. Critics claim that it is no different from the ...
North Korea still remains a mystery to much of the outside world. It is concealed behind the Iron Curtain, and very few have managed to peak through. In late 2014, I had an opportunity as a tourist to take a glimpse behind the curtain in an attempt to observe the ordinary lives of North Koreans.
Prior to the trip, I always assumed I would be on a well-orchestrated group tour to the major communist attractions the North wanted to show off. The kind of tour where every footstep is carefully planned...
According to the classical ‘arms race’ theory by Lewis Richardson, military preparations of one’s side are directly proportional to rival’s potential and inversely – to its own accumulated arsenals. However differential equations don’t leave space for political choice as mathematically there can be only three possible scenarios: arms race, mutual disarmament or parity. The one valuable note made by Richardson after the World War I that nations tend to accumulate...
It was on 30 August 2011, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) issued a landmark decision on a case of former comfort women claiming compensation from the Japanese government. In view of obtaining compensations for former comfort women, the Court ordered the South Korean Government “to take steps for dispute settlement under Article 3 of the Agreement [of 1965 on the settlement of post-colonial claims]1).”2) That article provides that “any dispute between...
