Eastern Asia

On December 19, 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution regarding Human Rights in the DPRK. The Resolution on this subject was adopted for the twelfth year in a row; and it was recommended that the UN Security Council consider “referring the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court” and provide for punishment for the North Korean leader who is responsible for human rights violations, for the third consecutive year.

On December 19, 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution regarding Human Rights in the DPRK. The Resolution on this subject was adopted for the twelfth year in a row; and it was recommended that the UN Security Council consider “referring the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court” and provide for punishment for the North Korean leader who is responsible for human rights violations, for the third consecutive year.

The author spent early January 2017 commenting on the sensational news that “the American and South Korean special forces have agreed to eliminate the leader of North Korea.” In particular, on January 4, the Defence Minister Han Min-goo introduced a document entitled “Strong National Defence together with the People: Action Plan for 2017.” Among other issues, it contains the idea to create a special operations regiment tasked with the neutralization of the top military leadership of North Korea, including Kim Jong-un

We have already written about the defection of Deputy Ambassador to London, who together with his family resided in the UK for about 10 years and was engaged in propaganda, ranking second after the Ambassador. KCNA declared him a crook and demoralizer, who, since he was facing a dressing-down on his return home, decided to flee.

It’s hardly a secret for international analysts that the ceremony of Donald Trump’s inauguration, just like his first steps in the new capacity have been carefully observed by the geopolitical opponents of the dominant world power, just like its closest allies. The text of Trump’s inauguration speech just like all of his statements was particularly carefully dissected in Japan – the principal US ally in the Asia-Pacific region.

It’s hardly a secret for international analysts that the ceremony of Donald Trump’s inauguration, just like his first steps in the new capacity have been carefully observed by the geopolitical opponents of the dominant world power, just like its closest allies. The text of Trump’s inauguration speech just like all of his statements was particularly carefully dissected in Japan – the principal US ally in the Asia-Pacific region.

The end of 2016 was marked by a number of events related to the future deployment of THAAD missile defence systems in South Korea. The main thing is that, despite the claims by Seoul that the antimissile systems shall be deployed exclusively in order to protect against threats from Pyongyang, Beijing began to stiff resistance on several fronts.

In many ways, China’s socioeconomic and military influence in Asia has already balanced a long-lopsided equation of geopolitical power in the region. The social and economic stability brought by the rise of China along with the rest of Asia has helped eliminate many of the “dark alleys” the US and its European allies have often used to create division, destruction and opportunities to then intervene, even overturn entire governments.

On December 23, 2016 at the opening of the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees, the Chairman of the WPK Kim Jong-un delivered a speech, in which the author of this article has noted several important points.

The breaking news at the end of last year concerned the split in the conservative wing.