On November 27 at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to the Russia-DPRK Treaty and the security situation in Northeast Asia. Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, there has been a noticeable rapprochement between Russia and the DPRK. An important indicator of this was the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between Russia and the DPRK, signed in June 2024. How exactly will the provisions of the Treaty between Russia and the DPRK be applied? Will they entail additional sanctions for both parties? How do neighbouring countries – China and South Korea – view the signing of the Treaty? How will this affect the situation in the region? The participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.
Speakers:
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Dmitry Kiku, Deputy Director of the Department for Control over External Restrictions of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
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Georgy Toloraya, Head of the Center of Russian Strategy in Asia of the Institute of Economics, RAS; Senior Researcher, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, RAS
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Ilya Dyachkov, Associate Professor of the Department of Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Mongolian Languages at MGIMO university
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Anton Khlopkov, Director of the Centre for Energy and Security (Moscow)
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Xu Bo,Professor at the Northeast Asia Research Center of Jilin University (Changchun, China)
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Konstantin Asmolov, Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator:
- Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
