On February 22, RIAC welcomed Yoon Young-Kwan, former Minister of foreign affairs and trade of Republic of Korea, and Wi Sung Lac, former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with the guests from Seoul.
The parties discussed the current state and prospects of Russia - Republic of Korea relations, security issues on the Korean peninsula and in the Northeast Asia as a whole.
On January 12, 2017, in Moscow Russia’s and China’s representatives agreed to take joint measures against the US missile-defense system in South Korea. Vasily Kashin shares what missile-defense system deployment on the Korean peninsula would mean for regional security and what countermeasures Moscow and Beijing may take.
At this point Russia-China agreement on joint measures to establish ...
On October 3 Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, had a meeting with Park Ro-byug, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
The following issues were covered during the meeting: Northeast Asia and particularly Korean Peninsula security issues; multilateral military and political confidence-building system of measures in the North Pacific Ocean region; possible change in the role of the USA in terms of the upcoming presidential elections; Eurasian Economic...
On August 3, 2016, RIAC Program Manager for the Arctic and Asia-Pacific Lyudmila Filippova met with representatives of the Future Consensus Institute, South Korea, among them former RoK Ambassador in Moscow Wi Sung-Lac, Vice President Cho Jung-Hun, Director of Research Kim Tai Yoo, and researcher Anna Titenok.
The participants discussed future events on the Arctic, announced their cooperation proposals ...
The final and long-awaited decision to deploy the U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) mobile missile defence complexes in South Korea
was announced
on July 8. The stationing of these purely defence systems, which are ideally suited for the Korean theatre of military operations-to-be, has been met with strong criticism from the
Chinese
and
Russian
missions, with experts ...
... or a trench war massacre?
As If Before A Thunderstorm
In mid-February 2016, several western media announced the start of another planned military exercise on the Korean peninsula, which lasted from March 7 to April 30. The
exercise
involved 290,000 South Korean and about 15,000 American troops (the
US deployed
an additional marine brigade and air brigade, and also an aircraft carrier battle group led by the
John C. Stennis
aircraft carrier and the
North Carolina
nuclear submarine). The exercise’s ...
... Asia-Pacific, among them:
— Historical, economic and strategic significance of the fastest developing territories and Russia’s New Eastern Policy (Pivot to Asia).
— Steps to be taken by Moscow to bring into balance future cooperation with South Korea and Japan vis-à-vis close cooperation with China.
— Strategic importance and economic value of the EEU’s drive to free trade agreements with Asian countries, and in particular an FTA with RoK.
— The Korean Peninsula ...
South Korea held legislative elections to its National Assembly on April 13, 2016. The Minjoo Party of Korea secured the majority of votes in 110 single-member constituencies, with the ruling Saenuri Party earning 105 seats, the People’s Party 25 ...
... current crisis in relations between the ROK and the DPRK.
The sides also explored the issues of using international sanctions to improve the situation on the Peninsula, as well as of cooperation between independent analytical centers of Russia’s and South Korea’s expert communities.
Andrey Kortunov briefed the Korean Ambassador on the current and planned RIAC projects in the sphere of international security.
On February 11, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Republic of Korea Ambassador to Russia Park Ro-byug to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula, opportunities for and constraints of the Russian-Korean bilateral cooperation in promoting security and military-strategic stability in Northeast Asia, given the current phase of North Korea’s missile and nuclear program.
