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Relations between China and South Korea in 2024. Part 1: The Official Side
Amid the rapprochement between Russia and the DPRK, expectations are growing in South Korea that the relative cooling in relations between Seoul and Beijing may be replaced by a warming. It is true that the level of official contacts has increased this year, but it is too early to talk about a détente.
North Korea cuts the routes leading to the South
In October 2024, the DPRK’s defensive activity in the border zone with South Korea was visibly completed. The possibility of road and rail transportation between the two Korean states has been cut off
One foot over the danger line: drones over Pyongyang
Recently the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of China and Modern Asia published a forecast, to which the present author contributed, which noted that the most likely scenario for the outbreak of a conflict on the Korean Peninsula is that it could be sparked by irrational factors, including provocations mounted by a third party.
