Search results for: So Kwang Yong
-
Pivotal States, Global South and India-South Korea Relations
In recent years, the term “Global South”—largely spanning countries in Africa, Central and Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean—has gained tremendous geopolitical currency. One of the most...
-
South Korea and US Agree on Draft End-of-War Declaration ‘In Principle’
...Introduction: South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong said on Wednesday at a press conference that South Korea and the United States have agreed “in principle” on a draft to...
-
A Way Out from the US-DPRK Deadlock: Toward North Korea’s Denuclearization
Abstract: This Issue Brief focuses on three points essential to the resumption of denuclearization talks. First, this paper will analyze North Korea’s unique status as a de facto...
-
North Korea’s Signaling on Nuclear Weapons and Negotiations
...offered. After the US rejected the North’s request to lift a significant portion of the sanctions imposed since 2017, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Foreign Minister Ri Yong...
-
New Roadmap for Denuclearization and Peacebuilding
...agreement on security guarantees for North Korea has thus far been doomed to failure. This issue was brought up again after the Hanoi Summit when Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho...
-
Towards a New Conflict Management System on the Korean Peninsula: A Military Perspective
...Jong Un. So asserted Kim Yong Chol, the former North Korean nuclear envoy and spymaster, in a statement in 2019. He further stressed that continued “belligerent” relations could lead to...
-
U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?
...make any headway on implementing the Singapore pledges as Kim preferred to deal directly with Trump. Following top nuclear negotiator Kim Yong Chol’s two visits to Washington, during which he...
-
Denuclearizing North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities after Hanoi
...sanctions relief. At Hanoi, North Korea offered to shut down its fissile material production facilities, which can be used to make plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU), at the Yongbyon...
-
Negotiating North Korea’s Nukes
...Korean workers abroad, and banning its textile and seafood exports, among other measures. North Korea criticized the UNSC resolutions as “illegal” and “unjust,” with foreign minister Ri Yong Ho justifying...
-
The art of compromise: picking up the pieces after Hanoi
...more than the Yongbyon nuclear facility — an important plank of North Korea’s nuclear program — for the level of sanctions relief North Korea was requesting. According to North Korean...