... purpose of expanding the organization’s areas of activity
The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid can be seen as a momentous occasion not just for NATO but also for security in the Asia-Pacific. For the first time in NATO’s 73-year-long history, Japanese and South Korean leaders participated in the meeting as “Asia-Pacific partners”. For the first time, the Alliance named China a threat in their documents. However, having approached the
hic sunt dracones
(here be dragons) mark, NATO and its partners will soon have to think about the limits and purpose of ...
On July 18, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with RoK Ambassador in Moscow Park Ro-byug to discuss a variety of issues pertaining to Russia’s policy in Asia-Pacific, among them:
— Historical, economic and strategic significance of the fastest developing territories and Russia’s New Eastern Policy (Pivot to Asia).
— Steps to be taken by Moscow to bring into balance future cooperation with South Korea and Japan vis-à-vis close cooperation with China.
— Strategic importance and economic value of the EEU’s drive to free trade agreements with Asian countries, and in particular an FTA with RoK.
— The Korean Peninsula ...
... the hook on which America’s military protection of Japan hangs. Thus Japan declares its readiness to fight on the side of the USA without weapons.
The USA’s second important objective aimed at building an effective security system in the Asia-Pacific region is to dampen down the worsening conflict between Japan and South Korea, since effective cooperation between these two countries is vitally important for the Americans. In years gone by the USA focused on bilateral security treaties, creating the so-called “umbrella spokes”, but now the time has come ...
... current Republic of Korea’s navy is fairly young. The Association of Naval Affairs of Korea was established on 11 November 1945, with Sohn Won Il at the head. This entity became the Korean Coastal Guard and subsequently, on 15 August 1948, the South Korean Navy. Sohn Won Il became the first ever Chief of Staff of the Navy.
However, the first Korean fleet was capable only of providing for the country's coastal defence. It had two second-hand, 1,500-ton US patrol frigates with a total strength ...
... Kortunov
addressed the meeting with a speech on contemporary security issues in Northeast Asia.
The conference was also attended by former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, RIAC member
Alexander Panov
, Russian Ambassador to South Korea
Konstantin Vnukov
, Director of the HSE Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies
Timofei Bordachev
, Director of the Far-Eastern Marine Research, Design and Technology Institute
Jaroslav Semenihin
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Conference Program
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