For many years now North Korea has been relentlessly trying to perfect its nuclear program by conducting four nuclear tests and developing ballistic missiles that could be topped with nuclear warheads.
A Russian regional security expert in Vladivostok says North Korea cannot but continue to develop nuclear weapons because it believes that is the only way to guarantee regime survival.
"It is a defensive weapon for them a political tool for survival and some extent a tool of black mailing and...
... 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" ...
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 ...
