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The Japan-US Summit: Did They Agree to Differ?
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his first visit to Washington and met with US President Barack Obama from February 21-24. The two leaders’ speeches contained the obligatory words about an...
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The Problem with the New UN Sanctions against North Korea
A new round of sanctions has been imposed on North Korea, and an answer has been found to the question, “What more can they ban?” The sanctions affect North Korean diplomats, who must henceforth be...
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The Situation on the Korean Peninsula. Part 1
Let us consider how the parties view each other and how well they understand their opponent. An iron curtain works in both directions, giving a distorted impression about what is on the other side....
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The Situation on the Korean Peninsula. Part 3
My previous articles make it clear that without a third force to serve as a moderator to translate ideas and push for a consensus, relations between North Korea and the United States will continue...
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The Situation on the Korean Peninsula. Part 2
North Korea has blinders on, too, and its experts on the West (in the broad sense of the term) do not necessarily understand things about it that seem obvious to us. They are governed by an eccentric...
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China’s Leader Visits Russia
Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Russia on a state visit from March 22-24, 2013 at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation. The visit was a geopolitical phenomenon that is strongly affecting...
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Possible Developments on the Korean Peninsula
Things are heating up again on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea has put its long-range artillery and strategic rocket forces targeted at US military bases on alert: “From this moment, the Supreme...
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The Development of North Korea’s Main Policy
With the situation on the Korean Peninsula growing worse, news about the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held on March 31 and the planning session of the Supreme...
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What We Should and Shouldn’t Fear on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea’s suggestion about evacuating diplomatic missions has again inflamed passions and once more forced experts to pay attention to details and try to answer the question: “What should we be...
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The Evolving Balance of Power in the World
The prevailing opinion in the West not so long ago was that its power and its dominance in world affairs would last forever. It seemed to the world’s powerful in Washington and other Western countries...
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Pakistan-China-USA: Cooperation for the State of Stability?
Pakistan’s role in South and Southeast Asia is undoubtedly a major factor affecting the situation there. When outside observers assess that role, they primarily look at the interaction between this...
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Korean Unification — What Problems Should We Expect? Part 1.
The flare-up between the Koreas superimposed on the public’s image of North Korea has given rise to a widespread feeling that can be stated something like this: “Isn’t it time to pull the plug on this...
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Why Doesn’t Washington like Russia Exporting Gas to East Asia?
The world is becoming more multipolar. But the United States is only one of its poles: It has a huge navy, and it is striving desperately to gain control over all of the world’s oceans and, therefore,...
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Korean Unification — What Problems Should We Expect? Part 2.
The third group of problems can be termed sociopolitical. It affects those categories of people in North Korea that would fit poorly into the new world order. These are not the few members of the...
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The Senkakus — a New Chapter in the Saga of the Islands
The territorial conflict over the disputed islands of the Senkaku archipelago (called the Diaoyu Islands by China) in the East China Sea is gaining momentum. Many analysts believe that Washington has...
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Why Shinzo Abe Visited Moscow
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Moscow on April 28 for a three-day visit, during which he met with President Vladimir Putin. He planted a cherry tree at the Russian Academy of Sciences...
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They’re Provoking North Korea Again. (Part 1)
North Korea’s supreme court has sentenced Kenneth Bae (Bae Junh-ho), a US citizen, to 15 years hard labor on charges of attempting a coup. We have known about the Korean-American’s arrest since...
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They’re Provoking North Korea Again. (Part 2)
The second trend is related to the kind of work a community that might be called “Korean Protestant sects” is doing against North Korea. I say “might be called “ because, on the one hand, these sects...
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The Korean Peninsula — Is the Tension over or Is It Just a Reprieve?
Nine ballistic missiles of various ranges, including the latest Musudan, were removed from the DPRK’s eastern coast. They had been deployed there in early April in response to a large-scale military...
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The Chief of the North Korean Military’s Political Department Visits China
The director of the North Korean People’s Army’s General Political Department, Choe Ryong-Hae, visited China from May 22-25, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s special envoy met both with members...
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