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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Yoon and Biden’s opening monologue was theatrical, just like the Washington Declaration. “The United States and the ROK are constructing an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Despite this author’s previous article’s assumption that the heat of the “spring escalation was subsiding,” April 2023 will not be an easy...
On March 28, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol stated that “the reality of the horrific human rights violations against the North Korean...
Several Pentagon and CIA documents relating to the Ukraine crisis surfaced on the Internet in early April. If the contents of the revealed documents...
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...
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...
Yoon Suk-yeol, the current president of South Korea, has consistently expressed a desire to strengthen bilateral ties with Japan, in contrast to his...
The United States, South Korea, and Japan continue to conduct bilateral and trilateral exercises designed to combat North Korea. This activity has...
One of the most significant festivals in the Republic of Korea is March 1, which honors the widespread protests against Japanese colonial rule. Under...
A year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation to denazify Ukraine’s criminal regime. Against this backdrop, various parties...
Perhaps the author’s articles focus too heavily on South Korean domestic politics, but even so, when he describes the lengthy planning for an...
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....
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...
On February 15, 2023, at a meeting of the ROK National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, Unification Minister Kwon Young-se stated...
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...
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,...
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...
On several occasions in his recent articles dealing with the political consequences of the disaster in Itaewon on October 29, 2022, the author has...
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,...
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...
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...
The conservatives’ offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean...
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...