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Konstantin Asmolov

Konstantin Asmolov

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Thae Yong-ho - is this the end of his career?

Readers of previous articles by the present writer will know that the present author has a special interest in defectors from North Korea. As a result...

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Konstantin Asmolov

Fumio Kishida's visit to South Korea

As the readers recall, Yoon Suk-yeol, the new President of the Republic of Korea, advocated right from the start for enhancing ties with Japan and...

26.05.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

The Gangneung self-immolation: a sign of the acute confrontation between the government and the unions, in which there is no clear right or wrong

On May 1, 2023, 50-year-old Yang Hoe-dong doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire around 9:35 a.m. in front of the district...

23.05.2023 40

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Concerning Signs of Chill in Relations Between China and South Korea

Given recent diplomatic advancements between the Republic of Korea and Japan, as well as the President of the Republic of Korea’s visit to the...

20.05.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

The President of the Republic of Korea’s Visit to the United States: An Analysis of Key Documents and Statements. Part 3. Russian (and Chinese) Issues at the US and ROK Presidents’ Summit

The context in which Russia was mentioned deserves its own section because, prior to the visit and following Yoon Suk-yeol’s interview with Reuters,...

15.05.2023 30

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Konstantin Asmolov

The President of the Republic of Korea's Visit to the United States: An Analysis of Key Documents and Statements. Part 2. Joint Statement by the Presidents

Yoon and Biden’s opening monologue was theatrical, just like the Washington Declaration. “The United States and the ROK are constructing an...

14.05.2023 60

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Konstantin Asmolov

The President of the Republic of Korea's Visit to the United States: An Analysis of Key Documents and Statements Part 1. The Washington Declaration

Having described the course of the visit, let’s move on to a more in-depth analysis of the main statements, which include the joint statement of the...

13.05.2023 60

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The President of the Republic of Korea's Visit to the United States: A Timeline of Events

On April 24, 2023, President Yoon Suk-yeol arrived in Washington on Monday for a six-day state visit under the slogan “Alliance in action toward the...

10.05.2023 40

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Konstantin Asmolov

Is South Korea going to supply Ukraine with arms?

On April 19, 2023 President Yoon Seok-yeol gave an interview to Reuters in which he said, among other things, that “If there is a situation the...

05.05.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

Will the Lee Jae-myung case be followed by a Song Young-gil case?

On April 17, 2023 Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, the country’s main opposition party, made a public apology, not in...

02.05.2023 20

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Waiting for the launch of North Korea’s first military intelligence satellite

This author will discuss the current round in the confrontation between the two Koreas in his next article, and pause for a moment to look at a more...

30.04.2023 30

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Anti-prediction on the anticipation regarding the outcome of Yoon Suk-yeol's visit to the United States

A genre the author refers to as “anti-predictions” may be found in his various works. They describe the most dismal developments in the hope that...

27.04.2023 60

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An Azerbaijani named Ashot, or a little more on how the North Korean arms trade in the Russian Federation is proven

We recently discussed how stories of North Korean weapons shipments to Russia were now being proven by saying things like, “Here’s a train with...

26.04.2023 40

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A Chronicle of Tensions on the Korean Peninsula in Early April 2023

Despite this author’s previous article’s assumption that the heat of the “spring escalation was subsiding,” April 2023 will not be an easy...

24.04.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

Seoul’s efforts to intensify the human rights issue in North Korea are met with difficulties in justifying their actions again

On March 28, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stated that “the reality of the horrific human rights violations against the North Korean...

17.04.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

South Korea and the US leaks scandal

Several Pentagon and CIA documents relating to the Ukraine crisis surfaced on the Internet in early April. If the contents of the revealed documents...

14.04.2023 10

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Large Military Exercises End on the Korean Peninsula but "Spring Fever" Goes On

While we concentrated on the March 23 shooting in last week’s Chronicle of Moving to the Dangerous Line, the Korean Central News Agency broke news...

10.04.2023 20

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On Kim Sung-han's resignation

National Security Advisor of the Republic of Korea (to put it bluntly, a key advisor on foreign and national security affairs of South Korea) said...

07.04.2023 10

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Yoon Suk-yeol’s Visit to Japan

Yoon Suk-yeol, the current president of South Korea, has consistently expressed a desire to strengthen bilateral ties with Japan, in contrast to his...

04.04.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

The Spring Madness Continues

The United States, South Korea, and Japan continue to conduct bilateral and trilateral exercises designed to combat North Korea. This activity has...

28.03.2023 20

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Yoon Suk-yeol Turns to Japan

One of the most significant festivals in the Republic of Korea is March 1, which honors the widespread protests against Japanese colonial rule. Under...

23.03.2023 20

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South Korea at the Ukrainian Crossroads

A year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation to denazify Ukraine’s criminal regime. Against this backdrop, various parties...

21.03.2023 20

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On the outcome of the ROK’s Conservative Party congress and the parliamentary vote against the arrest of Lee Jae-myung.

Perhaps the author’s articles focus too heavily on South Korean domestic politics, but even so, when he describes the lengthy planning for an...

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Is the DPRK still a sponsor of terrorism? Well…

On February 27, 2023, the US State Department released a report in which the US left North Korea on the 2021 list of countries sponsoring terrorism....

16.03.2023 20

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"First Daughter" or a new trend of DPRK propaganda?

After mentioning the daughter of the DPRK leader at a military parade and other events marking the 75th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army on...

13.03.2023 20

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Is there a famine in North Korea in 2023?

On February 15, 2023, at a meeting of the ROK National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, Unification Minister Kwon Young-se stated...

09.03.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

In the lead-up to the Congress of the Conservative Party of South Korea

On March 8, 2023, the Conservative Party of South Korea will elect its chairman. Because the political parties of the Republic of Korea (ROK) are in...

06.03.2023 5

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A North Korean connection in Lee Jae-myung case

The Lee Jae-myung’s saga continues, however, today we’ll not focus on the developments in his main case, which has resulted in an arrest warrant,...

03.03.2023 20

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Early “Spring Exacerbation”

Those who closely follow the events on the Korean peninsula know that military exercises of the United States and the Republic of Korea take place...

01.03.2023 20

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Third impeachment in North Korea’s history

On several occasions in his recent articles dealing with the political consequences of the disaster in Itaewon on October 29, 2022, the author has...

20.02.2023 10

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The ROK has begun to "pay the Vietnamese bills"

On February 7, 2023 a very significant event occurred, in the author’s opinion. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Nguyen Thi Thanh,...

17.02.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

The thirteenth parade, a solid-fuel rocket and the daughter of the Leader of the DPRK at the podium

A military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Korean People’s Army was staged in Pyongyang, Kim Il-sung Square, on...

15.02.2023 30

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Seoul is being sucked into the American vortex

Given that the story about “arms supplies to Russia from the DPRK” has been gaining ground, the author has repeatedly stated that Seoul is the...

13.02.2023 9

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On the matter of North Korean spies in South Korea

The conservatives’ offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean...

08.02.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

The Tehran-Seoul Scandal: A New Development or a Rerun of the old?

During President Yoon Suk-yeol’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, a “diplomatic misunderstanding” (the wording of the ROK Foreign Ministry)...

02.02.2023 10

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What is covered by the “pictures of the Russian train”?

We recently wrote about the ways the United States’ allegations of North Korean munitions shipments to Russia had created a new standard of proof....

31.01.2023 10

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Echoes of the Itaewon tragedy

The investigation into the October 29 tragedy in Seoul’s Itaewon district, in which 168 people were killed in a stampede, has finally concluded....

26.01.2023 10

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Has the danger line been crossed in a single leap?

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...

23.01.2023 10

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The Thirty-Eighth Parallel and Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine

On January 8, 2023 Andrey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine suggested that the Russian government may propose...

20.01.2023 20

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Korea’s New Year lunar orbit and other recent achievements in its rocket program

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...

19.01.2023 10

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“North Korean hackers” in 2022

The author constantly writes about the “crimes of hackers from the DPRK,” and after talking about the problems that the cybersecurity of the...

17.01.2023 30

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Thirty large-scale MLRS and other successes of North Korea’s rocket program this New Year

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...

15.01.2023 10

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The case of Virgil Griffith and other affairs of “the accomplices of the Pyongyang hackers”

On April 12, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York sentenced American programmer and former Ethereum cryptocurrency developer Virgil Griffith...

13.01.2023 40

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Covert Chinese police stations in South Korea?

In relations between South Korea and China, something is emerging that can significantly worsen relations between Seoul and Beijing. We are talking...

11.01.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

Japan’s Defense Strategy: A View from the Korean Corner

On December 16, 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved amendments to three key national security and defense documents. First, an increase in the military...

10.01.2023 8

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Japan’s Defense Strategy: A View from the Korean Corner

On December 16, 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved amendments to three key national security and defense documents. First, an increase in the military...

09.01.2023 10

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Konstantin Asmolov

South Korea and its cyber front

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...

06.01.2023 20

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Fake about North Korean aid to the Wagner PMC as an illustration of new “evidence” trends

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...

04.01.2023 60

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A new step to the dangerous line: now with drones?

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”:...

03.01.2023 20

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Konstantin Asmolov

On another border incident and the 14th Dalai Lama factor in China-India relations

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...

02.01.2023 20

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