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Konstantin Asmolov

PhD in History, leading research fellow at the Center for Korean Studies of the Institute of China and Modern Asia at the Russian Academy of Sciences

There's no Escaping ASF for Seoul at This Point

In the second half of September of this year, an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF seems to have begun in South Korea. Despite the fact that this disease does not pose a risk to humans, it has earned its name (swine fever for a reason, since a highly pathogenic strain of ASF is 100% fatal. There are no medicines to treat this sickness. And the only...

Konstantin Asmolov

Incident Involving North Korean Poachers

On 17 September 2019, the Federal Security Service (FSS of the Russian Federation reported that more than 80 DPRK citizens, engaged in poaching in Russia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ in the Sea of Japan, were detained. Coast guards apprehended two fishing schooners...

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Will John Bolton’s Ousting Affect US Policy Towards DPRK?

On 10 September 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed National Security Advisor John Bolton. On his Twitter feed the President stated that Bolton’s “services were no longer needed at the White House.” “I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others...

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A Tense Time for Relations between Japan and South Korea: The GSOMIA and Moon’s Relations with the USA

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How Radiophobia Contributes to the Exacerbation of the Korean-Japanese Relations Condoned by Moon Jae-In

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What the Aggravation of the US-Iranian Relations Means for South Korea

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Tensions in Korean-Japanese Relations: the Latest "Reports from the Front"

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Moon Jae-in’s Spring Cleaning: the Designation of Cho Kuk and the Court Decision on Park Geun-hye

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