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Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (II)

15:00 27.04.2011

Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (II)

Creeping of instability and political revolts in the Arab East has given birth to expectations that the democratic wave will soon reach North Korea as well. Indeed: if there is no chance to change the political regime in North Korea by using military force so why not to choose less …

Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (I)

15:00 26.04.2011

Libya and Korea: fatal cohesion of events (I)

Though geographically the revolution-ridden North Africa and North Eastern Asia are far from each other, many analysts draw parallels and even come up with forecasts about similar fates of the leaders of Jamahiriya and North Korea. The current events in Libya put the following question – Does a small country …

Pyongyang – Seoul: In Quagmire, with Dim Prospects for Solution

14:00 21.02.2011

Pyongyang – Seoul: In Quagmire, with Dim Prospects for Solution

Early this February, the South and North Korean army command envoys met in Panmunjom, on the de facto border between the two countries, to reach an agreement on the agenda, date, and location for the higher level talks suggested by Pyongyang at the end of January. The otherwise routine event …

The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

14:00 29.11.2010

The Korean Peninsula: a Territory of Recurring Crises

A new escalation took place on the Korean Peninsula. The crisis began to unravel when a US envoy who visited N. Korea stated that up to 2,000 centrifuges were installed at the Yongbyon uranium enrichment facilities. The number, albeit too low to worry that the production of weapons-grade plutonium was …

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

15:00 12.10.2010

Workers' Party of Korea’s conference: summing up the historical meeting

The meeting of North Korea’s ruling party (Workers' Party of Korea - WPK) on September 28, the first one since the party’s congress of 1980, is the most important event in country’s domestic policy.Note, that the gatherings of the ruling party are rather exceptional events which are not held on …

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (II)

15:00 04.06.2010

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (II)

The report on the sinking of S. Korea`s Cheonan corvette claiming that the tragedy had been caused by a torpedo fired by a N. Korean submarine caused further escalation on the Korean Peninsula. In a strongly worded address to the nation on May 24, S. Korean President Lee Myung-bak made …

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (I)

16:36 25.05.2010

The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (I)

Seoul has unveiled the results of the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan corvette in the Yellow Sea on May 26. According to the report put together by a commission of South Korean military and unnamed experts from the US, Canada, Great Britain, and Sweden, “Cheonan was sunk as …

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