... diversify supply. Notably, Russia
shipped
2.1 million tonnes of LNG to South Korea in 2024, making it the country’s seventh-largest supplier. Gas cooperation also involved plans to build a pipeline network from Russia to the South Korean city of Busan via North Korea. The project was
valued
at no less than $2.5 billion, with no serious technical hurdles to implementation, but the UN Security Council sanctions regime on Pyongyang stood in the way.
A trilateral project to link South Korea, North Korea and ...
... in East Asia. In the North East Asia region that approach implied that along with heavily investing into Russia-China relations, the Kremlin also tried to explore economic and even political opportunities with Seoul and with Tokyo. In addressing the North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, Russia relied on multilateral frameworks including UN Security Council solidary voting on economic sanctions against Pyongyang and the six party negotiating mechanism. In the South East Asia region Moscow preferred not ...
The United States and its allies have serious cause for concern
High-ranking American officials are
reporting
the appearance of North Korean military personnel in Russia, and also admit the possibility of their participation in the Ukrainian conflict on the Russian side. The Russian Foreign Ministry
characterises
such statements as information leaks and hype.
Konstantin Asmolov: ...
... North initially hoped to complete the unsuccessful “campaign to liberate the South” that started in 1950 (and nearly ended in complete disaster, were it not for China’s intervention). Yet by the 1970s, amid détente between the United States and North Korea’s “patrons”—the Soviet Union and China—Pyongyang came to understand that its hopes of defeating a stronger South Korea, heavily backed by the Americans, were futile. Since then, the North’s goals have become more pragmatic: to ...
... should close their ranks even more. Such reasoning is constructed for some alternative reality as it suffers from a lack of causality. More so, it is absolutely unclear why the formats of cooperation between “liberal democracies” are so much better ... ... Council as well by Tokyo and Seoul unilaterally, the DPRK is not heavily involved in economic and social exchanges. Nevertheless, North Korea is clearly an integral part of the region’s internal environment and an important factor in the processes in Northeast ...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's overall approach ...
А sharp escalation of tension may occur in the near future
The belligerent statements that the United States, North Korea and South Korea have been making about each other over the past few weeks, and the steps they have taken to mobilise their existing arsenals, suggest that a sharp escalation of tension may occur in the near future.
In March 2022, Pyongyang ...
... India and Pakistan through arms control on the U.S.-Soviet model was impossible due to geographical proximity and territorial issues, the general power imbalance between the two countries, and the asymmetrical strategic position of India and Pakistan.
North Korea, which developed its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles in the 21st century, presented another problem. Its arrival as a nuclear-armed state sent the message that any country whose leadership was determined to go nuclear and was prepared ...
... the Korean War to better handle conflict?
This year marks the 70
th
anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. It was initially a civil war that gradually evolved into an international conflict, during which the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea. Last Friday, China commemorated the 70
th
anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers army entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. How to evaluate China's decision to ...
...
A Gloomy Anniversary
The September 19, 2005 statement
proposed
measures to phase out the nuclear potential of the Korean peninsula in exchange for establishing a peace and security mechanism that takes the interests of all sides into account.
North Korea, whose missile programme was the focus of the talks, was primarily interested in eliminating threats to its national security and obtaining “irrevocable” guarantees of non-interference as an alternative to nuclear deterrence. These agreements ...
