On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South Korea Roundtable on the Situation with the Korean Peninsula was held in Moscow.
On December 5, 2018, a Russia-South Korea Roundtable on the Situation with the Korean Peninsula was held in Moscow.
Wi Sung Rak, former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia, made a report at the event. RIAC members Gleb Ivashentsov and Anton Khlopkov, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC General Director, RIAC experts Vladimir Petrovsky, Dmitry Streltsov, and Alexander Fedorovsky, as well as staff of South Korean ...
... of such topics.
"Journalists and general public pay great attention to the North Korean nuclear missile program, leaving aside the issue of regulating relations between the two Korean states. Though it is the improvement of relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea that is a prerequisite for resolving the crisis," — stated Gleb Ivashentsov, RIAC Vice President, Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea in 2005-2009.
In the course of a dynamic discussion, experts expressed an opinion that ...
... Symbiosis of Peace and Non-Proliferation in the Korean Peninsula
It was the most miraculous Christmas truce since the First World War. After a year in which the prospect of conflict on the Korean peninsula never appeared greater, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea offered an unexpected olive branch to the Republic of Korea. Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un hinted at rapprochement in
his New Year address
; eight days later,
his envoy met with interlocutors
from South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone for the first face-to-face meetings between North and South since 2015. The parallels to 1914 were cemented when, a month later,
both sides fielded a joint-team at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
...
US Antipathy to Inter-Korean Rapprochement and Russia’s Role in Conflict Prevention
Thanks to the “New Year’s” initiatives of Kim Jong-un – to which South Korean Moon Jae-in responded for his own reasons – significant progress was made in the inter-Korean dialogue at the highest level during the recent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (the possibility of an inter-Korean summit is even on the table),...
... to use the words of Ri Son-Gwon, head of North Korea’s delegation at the inter-Korean talks held on January 9, 2018 in the South Korean segment of the demilitarized zone in Panmunjom.
In his traditional New Year’s speech, supreme leader of North Korea ... ... holding a third successive summit in North Korea is fraught with political costs for the South Korean leader.
1
. G. Toloraya. The Republic of Korea. Moscow: Mysl, 1990, p. 44.
2
. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Moscow: Nauka, 1985, pp. 260–262; ...
