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Konstantin AsmolovNew Eastern Outlook |
On the night of 3 to 4 December 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol imposed a state of emergency and martial law across the country. However,...
Amid the rapprochement between Russia and the DPRK, expectations are growing in South Korea that the relative cooling in relations between Seoul and...
On October 31, the DPRK conducted its first test launch this year of a new ICBM, the Hwaseong-19 The last launch of several short-range...
In connection with the strengthening of the Strategic Dialog between the Russian Federation and the DPRK, as agreed by the leaders of the two...
In October 2024, the DPRK’s defensive activity in the border zone with South Korea was visibly completed. The possibility of road and rail...
Recently the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of China and Modern Asia published a forecast, to which the present author contributed , which...
On October 7 and 8, the eleventh session of the Fourteenth Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took place in...
The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov not only has a Russian or Western dimension, but a South Korean one as well, which will influence the...
The State Duma of the Russian Federation ratified the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea...
The fake story about mass supplies of North Korean shells to the Russian Federation is being replaced by a new wave of fake news that soldiers of the...
On October 1, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Shigeru Ishiba was appointed as the 102nd Prime Minister of Japan. ...
Continuing with our series on the state of domestic politics in South Korea following the April 10 elections let us talk about what has been...
Russia has criticized the resolution adopted at the 68th session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which...
A South Korean opposition leader has publicly claimed that the government is preparing to impose martial law and then stage a coup...
7 years ago, the DPRK joined the “nuclear club,” and since then, it has been demonized as a threat to the world which seeks to start a nuclear...
After South Korea’s parliamentary elections, held six months ago, both the Democrats and the Conservatives “strengthened their ranks” and, still...
August 29, 2024, the Republic of Korea and the United States completed the annual joint Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises , which took place over 11...
After the publication of an article about a scandal involving South Korea’s military intelligence authority readers have requested an article on...
On August 19, the armed forces of the Republic of Korea and the United States began conducting joint exercises (Ulchi Freedom Shield), aimed at...
In South Korea the summer of 2024 has been marked by a series of spy scandals, which vividly illustrate a number of the country’s domestic and...
In South Korea the summer of 2024 has been marked by a series of spy scandals, which vividly illustrate a number of the country’s domestic and...
The domestic political situation in the ROK is not easy at the moment. In August 2024, the President of the Republic made two rather controversial...
We have written many times before about how North Korea is increasing its military capabilities. This process is going on all the time, but today we...
On July 8, 2024, ahead of his visit to the US, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol gave an interview to Reuters, which caused some tension in the...
The conclusion of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty caused some turbulence in relations between Moscow and Seoul, and now, despite...
From June 28 to July 1, 2024, the DPRK held “extended session of the 10th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party...
The space race between North and South Korea continues. Since the launch of its first spy satellite, Pyongyang has managed to produce a second one....
The consequences of the visit of the Russian leader to North Korea and the documents signed there are so significant that they can propel the trend of...
The participants in the trilateral summit discussed ways to promote cooperation in six specific areas: economy and trade, sustainable development...
The bilateral meetings between the leaders held on May 26 revealed how different Seoul’s current relations with Beijing and Tokyo are in terms of...
A three-party summit between South Korea, Japan and China was held on May 26-27, 2024. On the first day of the event, South Korea’s President Yoon...
On June 18-19, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin visit North Korea at the invitation of Supreme Leader and friend Kim Jong Un. The visit was a...
According to the Kyodo Tsushin News Agency , North Korea is focusing on improving the quality of its missiles and nuclear weapons in 2024. The launch...
Pyongyang has successfully conducted a ground-based jet test of a solid-fueled engine for a new type of medium-range hypersonic missile. Tensions on...
As we have noted many times, in the run-up to the April 10, 2024, parliamentary elections, opposition leader Lee Jae-myung fought not only for the...
We hear all kinds of horror stories about North Korea in the media. Many of the negative stories about the DPRK are myths and exaggerations that have...
In early May 2024, the media reported that a US Army sergeant had been detained in Vladivostok. This incident inspired a number of conspiracy...
In the last article in this series we mentioned that after the parliamentary elections on April 10, 2024, which preserved the existing level of...
South Korea’s parliamentary elections have resulted in the presidential-parliamentary confrontation remaining alive until the end of Yoon...
On April 10, South Korea held elections for members of the 22nd National Assembly, with the leading opposition Democratic Party retaining its majority...
One year ago, after ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol radically changed his focus and outlined a policy shift embracing Japanese partnership during a speech...
On March 28, 2024, Russia vetoed the extension of the mandate of the UN panel of experts to monitor the sanctions against the DPRK until April 30,...