Eastern Asia

After North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, the South Korean military announced a new plan that they dubbed KMPR: Korea Massive Punishment & Retaliation, which was presented on September 9, 2016 to South Korean Parliament.

The fifth nuclear test conducted in North Korea and the situation unfolding around it on the Korean Peninsula and in the region, obviously, raise the issue of how it might affect the relations between China and the countries of the Korean Peninsula? Although, from the author’s point of view, the question should be formulated somewhat differently – how soon will the Chinese government be forced to make that “tough” choice, whose inevitability is increasing?

Almost every time there is an aggravation of the Korean crisis, it is always possible to predict the actions of the majority of the parties involved, to a certain extent. This time, the situation currently unfolding is, once again, following the same course.

When US President Barack Obama attempted to leave Air Force One upon arriving at Hangzhou, China, just southwest of Shanghai, he found that no staircase or red carpet awaited him. Instead, he and his staff were forced to use an alternative exit from the aircraft, only to find additional restrictions placed upon them on the tarmac.

From August 27 to August 28 this year, the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD, was held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. This is arguably the most important measure taken by Japan to strengthen its trade and economic, political, and eventually military positions on the African continent.

From August 27 to August 28 this year, the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD, was held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. This is arguably the most important measure taken by Japan to strengthen its trade and economic, political, and eventually military positions on the African continent.

The news about the fifth nuclear test in the DRRK have overshadowed some earlier reports on the development of the North Korean missile program, yet the latter should hardly be disregarded because of that.

On September 9 at 9:30 AM, as it had been forecasted by numerous South Korean and Western experts, Pyongyang proceeded with its fifth nuclear weapon test. The site used for this test was just the same - near the village of Punggye-ri. The 5.3 strong earthquake that followed was reported by a number of monitoring stations across the region and, if South Korean media sources are to be believed, could be felt in a number of eastern Russian regions.

Summer 2016 was marked by a series of high-profile defections from North Korea. Unlike the story with the waitresses, they can hardly be classified as provocations.

Chinese tourists have visited every angle of the world. The Chinese tourist boom started began after 2008, when many countries of in the world either introduced either a visa-free regime for Chinese citizens, or simplified the visa procedures. Today, the number of such countries has reach a total ofed 57. Revenues from the growing tourist flow from the Celestial Empire are merging entering into the global economy, thus changing its environment.