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New complications in relations between South Korea and China
Recently, while outlining the deterioration in relations between Beijing and Seoul, the present author commented on a new scandal that further inflamed tensions. It has to do with highly critical comments made by Xing Haiming, China’s ambassador to Seoul, concerning South Korea’s foreign policy. The problems began on June 8, 2023, when South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung visited the residence of Chinese Ambassador Xing Haiming, for a dinner meeting in order to discuss Japan’s plans to dump radioactive waste water from the damaged Fukushima…
A chronicle of the escalation between North and South Korea in late April and May 2023
In this latest in his series of digests on the increasingly tense situation on the Korean peninsula the author presents an overview of the situation up to mid-June 2023. On April 15, in response to Pyongyang’s test of its new solid-fuel ICBM, the Hwaseong-18, the US and South Korea conducted joint air force exercises involving B-52H strategic bombers supported by South Korean F-35A and F-15K and US F-16 fighter jets. On April 16 a North Korean patrol boat crossed…
On the results of the meetings the South Korean Minister of Defense held in Singapore
In early June 2023, the 20th edition of the “Shangri-La Dialogue,” an international forum for security in Asia, took place in Singapore, and witnessed a lot of developments of particular interest for this author. It is believed that the dialogue between the two countries has been in a state of deadlock since the US State Secretary Antony Blinken canceled his visit to China in February 2023 after the United States tracked and shot down a supposedly Chinese spy balloon. Traces of the incident could have been seen at the forum. First, the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd…
