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South Korea’s External Security Cooperation: Five Spying Eyes Turn into Eight.

Aside from increases in military spending and efforts to improve servicemen’s standard of living, South Korea is actively fostering contacts in the defense sector, including arms trade, opportunities for ROK military personnel to serve abroad and simply “useful meetings”. First, let us focus on South Korean troops outside the ROK. As...

Konstantin Asmolov

South Korea and United States Delay Military Drills

In an article on the failure of Donald Trump’s impeachment, the author noted that the next marker which will determine the development of the situation on the Korean Peninsula may be the course and scale of the annual US-South Korean joint military exercises, which were usually held in March and served as the traditional ‘spring fever.’ In 2019, while still in détente...

Konstantin Asmolov

Traitors to Become Lawmakers: “People’s Savior” and Story Teller with Disabilities

On 10 February, South Korean media outlets reported that former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho, who had defected to the ROK in 2016, was planning to run in the upcoming April 15 general elections, “as a member of the main opposition” / conservative party - Liberty Korea Party (LKP. According to politicians...

Konstantin Asmolov

Proud South Korea and Its Independent Politics?

Konstantin Asmolov

South Korean Populists Bristle at US Envoy’s Moustache

Konstantin Asmolov

On the Resignation of South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon

Konstantin Asmolov

South Korea is not Willing to Pay 5 Times More for Stationing American Troops

Konstantin Asmolov

South Korean Protest Against US Ambassador

Konstantin Asmolov

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