... will continue to view that country as its geopolitical asset for at least as long as Beijing's rivalry with Washington for the Korean Peninsula and all of East Asia continues. Should North Korea be destabilised from the inside with the threat of the disintegration ... ... Beijing would do all it can to prevent Seoul from annexing the North. Chinese troops would be on North Korean soil well before the South Korean-U.S. alliance
could take any steps
. Beijing would most likely have perfectly legal grounds to do so, acting on ...
... with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Russian Federation.
Participants of the round table discussed the ways to further develop Russia-Korea relations including inter-regional cooperation between the two countries and the situation on the Korean Peninsula including North Korea nuclear issue.
The South Korean delegation was headed by Mr. Park Won Soon, Mayor of Seoul. H.E. Park Ro-byug, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation, representatives of Seoul Metropolitan Government and of the Embassy ...
... Assembly, representatives of Korean Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Park Ro-byug, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Korea to Russia. Russian side was represented by Evgeny Bazhanov, Rector of Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry,... ... General.
The meeting covered the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Republic of Korea, security issues in Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia on the whole.
The parties paid special attention to possible military and political consequence of THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) deployment in South Korea
Andrey Kortunov and the Ambassor of Republic of Korea Discuss Ways to Reduce Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
On April 19, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Park Ro-byug, the Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia.
The meeting covered Russia-Republic of Korea interaction considering the latest escalation in the Korean peninsula ...
On August 26, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Republic of Korea Ambassador to Moscow Park Ro-Byug to discuss topical issues related with Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.
The ambassador was also briefed on the status of the joint project of RIAC and Seoul National University on security and cooperation in Northeast Asia, after which the sides exchanged views on preparation of a Russian-Korean ...
... Similar proposals have already been made in South Korea.
The problems of international security cannot resolve themselves. Constant effort is required from all parties involved to put an end to the nuclear issue and normalize relations between North and South Korea. The situation on the Korean Peninsula should not be allowed to deteriorate into a kind of
zugzwang
, where there are no good moves and any action (or inaction) leads to a scenario where “you cannot act yet you have to.”
