... members of the DPRK expert community – including senior experts of the DPRK MFA Institute for American Studies. Mr. Khlopkov has told TASS about the outcomes of his Pyongyang visit and the Korean Peninsula denuclearization discussions.
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In the North Korean media coverage of your visit to Pyongyang, you are described as one of Russia’s leading nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation analysts. What was the purpose of the visit, whom did you meet, and what did you discuss?
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We have maintained ...
The Kazakhstan model of denuclearization can work for North Korea
After a year full of escalatory rhetoric, nuclear tests, and threats of war, the recent de-escalation of the North Korean crisis has come as a welcome respite. In April 2018, during the meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea,...
... real hysteria in South Korea. It has called it "gross provocation”; later (following Japan),
Seoul announced its intention to shoot down the missile
if it deviates from its trajectory. South Korea initiated the formation of “a single anti-North Korean front” at the summit on nuclear security in Seoul, literally twisting the arms of heads of states whose task was to discuss entirely different threats challenges, and as a result they expressed their condemnation of the North. There is also a desire to submit the issue for the ...
