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It will soon be 10 years since the publication of South Korea’s review of the state of human rights in the DPRK, which, thanks to its uncritical treatment of sources, turned out to be “much ado about not very much”. 10 years later, on February 6, 2024, South Korea’s Ministry for Unification presented what it considered to be a serious report, Perceptions of the Current Socioeconomic Situation in the DPRK, based on the results of an analysis of surveys of 6,531 defectors who left the DPRK between 2013 and 2022…

On 14 February 2024, the representatives of the ROK and Cuba at the United Nations exchanged diplomatic notes in New York, marking the establishment of official relations. Cuba became the 193rd country with which the ROK established diplomatic relations. According to the ROK presidential office, the event was the culmination of Seoul’s diplomatic efforts to establish relations with socialist countries that have traditionally maintained friendly contacts with the DPRK. In this regard…

In late January and early February, there was a local diplomatic escalation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea, which, in the view of some experts, had the effect of cooling relations between the two countries by a couple of degrees. On January 19, 2024, Georgy Zinoviev, Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea told Russian journalists that as long as South Korea did not cross a “red line” and directly supply lethal weapons to Ukraine, Russia was ready to consider the Republic of Korea as a promising partner…