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Significance of Blinken’s and Austin’s Visits to Seoul and Tokyo

No sooner than the first virtual summit of the four Quad leaders discussed the regional issues and underlined the importance of rules of law and free and open Indo-Pacific, the Joe Biden administration sent his Secretary of State Antony Blinken and D....

March 22, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Climate Change , summits , Military Exercises , Taiwan Strait , East and South China Sea , North Korea’s nuclear issue , 2+2 talks , comfort women issue , burden-sharing , institutional mechanism , weaponisation , island-building , China’s new Coast Guard Law , fishing vessels.

What does Eighth Party Congress of North Korea Reveal?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction

North Korea held the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party (WPK) after a gap of four and half years. It started on 5 January and lasted for unusually prolonged eight days until 12 January. The previous Congresses were held ....

January 21, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Donald Trump , Xi Jinping , sanctions , Kim Jong-un , Ballistic Missiles , Coronavirus , summits , Eighth Party Congress , SLBM , Kim Il-sung , Kim-Jong-Il , Jeo Biden

Tensions Return to the Korean Peninsula

Prof Rajaram Panda Commentary

At a time when the world attention is focussed in battling the Covid-19, two communist nations – China and North Korea – are engaged in different terrains as if to deflect the focus from containing Covid-19. Both are unfortunate developments and ....

June 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Kim Jong-un , Singapore , Pyongyang , Kaesong , Demilitarised zone , 2018 deal , Blue House , Moon Jae-in , Kim Yo Jong , sanctions relief , summits , Hanoi , dialogue , Roh Moo-hyun , Park Geun-hye , Covid-19 pandemic.