Should North Korea remain a sovereign state, gradually transforming itself into a regime that would be more acceptable to the world, or is the elimination of the “state of Juche” the only way to solve the North Korea crisis? This is the key question in the present stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
Should North Korea remain a sovereign state, gradually transforming itself into a regime that would be more acceptable to the world, or is the elimination of the “state of Juche” the only way to solve the North Korea crisis? This is the key question in the present stand-off on the Korean peninsula.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.