On November 21, 2019, Lotte Hotel (Moscow) hosted a bilateral round table focusing on the issues of current situation on the Korean Peninsula with the participation of diplomats and experts from South Korea and Russia.
On November 21, 2019, Lotte Hotel (Moscow) hosted a bilateral round table focusing on the issues of current situation on the Korean Peninsula with the participation ...
... consent a summit — a mark of recognition that North Korea has been craving for decades — already suggests an absence of caution. It is crucial that other parties, such as Russia, remain involved in the process — for there can be no peace on the Korean peninsula without resolving the issue of non-proliferation.
There are special reasons for Russia to be concerned by the Korean crisis. Its stake in global governance rests primarily on two assets: its permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its status as a nuclear power. A nuclear North Korea threatens to diminish both. First, the Kim regime has been ...
The regional security problem in Northeast Asia has several aspects. First, the US seeks to use the Korean crisis for exerting pressure on China. In his statements Donald Trump repeatedly emphasizes that Beijing “must” resolve the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula for the benefit of the US. The sanction-type measures are being imposed on Chinese companies for their trade with the DPRK.
The second aspect is connected with deployment of the ABM THAAD elements on the Korean Peninsula: while it is ...
... means other than the political one.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, speaking on November 27 at the
8th Asian Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club
, presented the Russian stage-by-stage plan for the settlement of the crisis on the Korean peninsula. According to the Deputy Foreign Minister, the first step should be the reduction of military tension. Its starting point is the so-called "double freezing" - suspension of missile launches and nuclear tests by the DPRK in exchange ...
On November 22 Alexander Dynkin, RIAC member, President of RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Academician; Pavel Zolotaryov, Major-General, Deputy Director at RAS Institute of USA and Canada; and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held a briefing for the staff of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Moscow on Russia-U.S. relations and their impact on political, military, and strategic situation in the Northeast Asia region.
On November 22 Alexander Dynkin, RIAC...