Search results for: Yuan Yong
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North Korea’s Signaling on Nuclear Weapons and Negotiations
...offered. After the US rejected the North’s request to lift a significant portion of the sanctions imposed since 2017, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Foreign Minister Ri Yong...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...Chung Eui-yong, the four addressed the issue of OPCON and the necessity of full joint ROK-U.S. readiness in the face of the aforementioned challenges. Both the ministers and secretaries recognized...
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New Roadmap for Denuclearization and Peacebuilding
...agreement on security guarantees for North Korea has thus far been doomed to failure. This issue was brought up again after the Hanoi Summit when Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho...
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Towards a New Conflict Management System on the Korean Peninsula: A Military Perspective
...Jong Un. So asserted Kim Yong Chol, the former North Korean nuclear envoy and spymaster, in a statement in 2019. He further stressed that continued “belligerent” relations could lead to...
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U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?
...make any headway on implementing the Singapore pledges as Kim preferred to deal directly with Trump. Following top nuclear negotiator Kim Yong Chol’s two visits to Washington, during which he...
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Denuclearizing North Korea: Challenges and Opportunities after Hanoi
...sanctions relief. At Hanoi, North Korea offered to shut down its fissile material production facilities, which can be used to make plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU), at the Yongbyon...
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Negotiating North Korea’s Nukes
...Korean workers abroad, and banning its textile and seafood exports, among other measures. North Korea criticized the UNSC resolutions as “illegal” and “unjust,” with foreign minister Ri Yong Ho justifying...
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The art of compromise: picking up the pieces after Hanoi
...more than the Yongbyon nuclear facility — an important plank of North Korea’s nuclear program — for the level of sanctions relief North Korea was requesting. According to North Korean...
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After the Pyeongchang Olympics: Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations
...DPRK delegation headed by Mr. Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, the joint march by the north-south athletes under one flag, and the congratulatory...
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Minsta lilla misstag kan ge en eskalering
...mot den gemensamma krigsövningen med USA. Nordkoreas utrikesdepartement har också hotat med en kärnvapenattack mot USA i ”förebyggande syfte”. Landets general Kang Pyo Yong sade för tre veckor sedan att...