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![]() Konstantin AsmolovNew Eastern Outlook |
During President Yoon Suk-yeol’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, a “diplomatic misunderstanding” (the wording of the ROK Foreign Ministry)...
We recently wrote about the ways the United States’ allegations of North Korean munitions shipments to Russia had created a new standard of proof....
The investigation into the October 29 tragedy in Seoul’s Itaewon district, in which 168 people were killed in a stampede, has finally concluded....
In our last article on South Korea’s response to a UAV raid conducted by North Korea, we described South Korea’s most likely reaction, namely...
On January 8, 2023 Andrey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine suggested that the Russian government may propose...
For both North and South Korea the New Year’s Eve was a time to boast of noteworthy achievements. On December 21 Korean prime Minister Han Duck-soo...
The author constantly writes about the “crimes of hackers from the DPRK,” and after talking about the problems that the cybersecurity of the...
In both North and South Korea, rocket scientists were able to congratulate themselves on a number of new achievements at the end of 2022 and the...
On April 12, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York sentenced American programmer and former Ethereum cryptocurrency developer Virgil Griffith...
In relations between South Korea and China, something is emerging that can significantly worsen relations between Seoul and Beijing. We are talking...
On December 16, 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved amendments to three key national security and defense documents. First, an increase in the military...
On December 16, 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved amendments to three key national security and defense documents. First, an increase in the military...
Generally, when it comes to cybercrime, the author writes about North Korean hackers, but an overview of what the issue of hackers in the ROK in...
It would seem that not long ago we touched on the intricate situation regarding rumors of North Korean or South Korean arms being supplied to the...
On December 26, 2022, there was an incident between North and South that some media outlets immediately hyped as “peninsula on the brink of war”:...
On December 9 this year, there was an incident between groups of soldiers from both countries at a section of the Sino-Indian border, seemingly...
The middle of December 2022 was marked by several important events that were not so much an aggravation of the situation on the Korean peninsula, but...
In 2014, South Korea was rocked by the Sewol ferry tragedy, including a failed rescue operation. To be honest, it failed for objective rather than...
Over the past few days, the author has come across several fake news reports on Korean arms supplies to Ukraine. Both from the North and the South. On...
In the 2022 White Paper on Defense, in accordance with the policy of the current administration, the political regime and the army of North Korea are...
On December 9, South Korea’s Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union voted to end their 16-day strike. The decision brought to an end the second round of...
Our previous article covering the tragedy at Itaewon was about how the causes of the tragedy were being determined. Now we will talk about how the...
“We have some good news. We are flying to the Moon once again.” This is how one can characterize the flow of reports from South Korean media...
Do you recall the summer story about the truckers’ strike in South Korea? It is now reoccurring and, in the author’s view, is not so much part of...
We are continuing with the series of materials covering the tragedy that took place on October 29, 2022 in Seoul’s Itaewon district where 158 people...
In a previous article, the author described how the authorities were closing in on Moon Jae-in. However, the most serious anti-Moon allegations are...
Although the latest article on how the investigation into possible abuse and corruption by people close to opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is going...
Tensions between North and South Korea have not abated, and the advance toward the danger line is unceasing. On November 9, North Korea launched a...
This author wrote in an earlier publication about the attempts to accuse the DPRK of supplying weapons to Russia, however, barely two months after the...
From reading the previous article, one could get the impression that, against the background of North Korea’s unprecedented missile activity and the...
North Korea has conducted a total of six nuclear tests since 2006 and a seventh is believed to be just around the corner – in 2022, Western experts...
On October 30, 2022, a deadly stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon district tragically killed more than 150 people and left 150 others with various degrees...
When considering the increase in tensions in the Korean Peninsula in autumn 2022 – an issue the present author has dedicated several articles to –...
The events we all can see unfolding on the Korean peninsula at the moment are a good example of the “security dilemma,” in which a country...
South Korea’s current conservative government is closing in on the former president, and he is under attack on several fronts at once. On the one...
In a previous article, “ What is Lee Jae Myung closer to – a prison or political leadership? ” it was reported on the criminal cases involving...
On August 28, 2022 the Democratic Party of Korea, currently the main opposition party in South Korea, elected Lee Jae-myung, a former presidential...
On October 24, 2022 the armed forces of North and South Korea both announced that they had fired warning shots after a North Korean ship crossed the...
Just when the author thought that, once the North Korean “nuclear counterattack exercise” was over, he could have a rest, this, unfortunately,...
After the failed Hyunmoo missile launch, covered by the author in a previous article, was almost misrepresented by armchair journalists as a North...
Since the publication of the visit of the US carrier group to the ROK, the vicious circle of tensions has taken another turn or two. The previous...
The current rise in tensions on the Korean peninsula is by no means over with US carrier group maneuvers and a series of short-range North Korean...
After describing Yoon’s trip to the Anglo-Saxon world a little earlier, it is worth discussing how it affected the ROK’s relations with the US and...
Following on from our previous article on the escalation of tensions in October 2022, we will look at the international reaction to North Korea’s...
Between September 18 and 24, 2022, ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol went on a foreign tour. It included visits to the United Kingdom (funeral of Queen...
On September 23, for the first time since October 2017, a US Navy carrier strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan...
More recently, we have been looking at a fake story about North Korea supplying arms to Russia, which the author believes to have originated from a...
Following a series of articles on the interaction between Seoul and Beijing, it is worth examining what the communication between Beijing and...