China’s junior partner. Russia’s Korean policy. OSW Point of View 72 December 2018

Rodkiewicz, Witold (2018) China’s junior partner. Russia’s Korean policy. OSW Point of View 72 December 2018. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Russia’s policy towards the conflict over the North Korean nuclear program, which in 2017-18 assumed the proportions of a serious international crisis, has been subordinated to its geopolitical goals in the region and to the strategy it is pursuing on a global scale. Its long-term goal is to prevent the reunification of the Korean peninsula under the aegis of the United States and to weaken the US’s position in the region. Its shortterm goal is to avert the danger of an outbreak of armed conflict on the peninsula and the possible collapse of North Korea.

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