The Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula: Problems and Ways of Development
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ad The Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula: Problems and Ways of Development1 O. V. Davydova,* and M. N. Novichkovaa,b,**,# a Primakov
National Research Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia b Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia *e-mail: [email protected] **e-mail: [email protected] Received May 20, 2020; revised May 20, 2020; accepted June 21, 2020
Abstract—A wide range of topics associated with the challenges of ensuring solid and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula is considered. The issue of a peace treaty to replace the Armistice Agreement is the cornerstone in building a new nonconfrontational system of relations in Korea that will ensure the security of all parties involved and their equal cooperation. According to the authors, the implementation of these tasks was greatly facilitated by the positive developments achieved in the past year in US–North Korean and interKorean relations. At the same time, despite the warming of the general climate, the transition from political declarations to practical steps in the interests of a comprehensive peace settlement turned out to be difficult due to the continuing deep contradictions between the participants in this process. Considerable attention is paid to the position of Russia in the article. It is shown that participation in the peaceful settlement of key Korean problems meets the vital interests of the Russian Federation in the context of the tasks of creating a security and cooperation mechanism in Northeast Asia. Keywords: Korean Peninsula, denuclearization, US–North Korean and inter-Korean relations, comprehensive peace settlement in Korea, Korean War, Armistice Agreement in Korea, peace treaty to replace armistice, security mechanism in Northeast Asia. DOI: 10.1134/S1019331620040085
On July 23, 1953, the signing of the Armistice Agreement in Korea (hereinafter, the Agreement) ended the bloody Korean War, which had blazed on the peninsula for three years. The document also provided for a number of subsequent steps. Thus, Article IV of the Agreement recommended that the governments of the countries concerned convene a political conference within three months to resolve through negotiations issues concerning the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces from Korea and a peaceful solution to the Korean problem [1]. The Geneva meeting, during which the Korean question was examined, began to work only in April 1954. It was attended by delegations from 19 countries 1 This
article is reprinted from the journal Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhduranodnye otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations) 64 (1), 56–63 (2020). # Oleg Vladimirovich Davydov is Ambassador-at-Large (retired) of the Russian Foreign Ministry and a Senior Researcher at the Primakov Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), RAS. Marina Nikolaevna Novichkova, is a Junior Researcher at the IMEMO, RAS, and a Senior Researcher at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (
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