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East Asia
Next US president and N. Korea
Tong Kim – The Korea Times South Korea and the United States have failed miserably to stop North Korea from developing a nuclear weapon and the delivery system for it, particularly during the past seven years and eight months under the Barack Obama presidency and the two conservative South Korean…
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West Asia
The Metsamor news in the media of Azerbaijan
The AsiaN’s news about Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant has been published by major media agencies of Azerbaijan. The news was translated into several languages such as French, German, Russian and Armenian as well as Azerbaijani language. Azerbaijan State News Agency – AZERTAG also aired the news for the media followers.…
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East Asia
Rushing to North Korea’s aid
Donald Kirk – The Korea Times North Korea is truly a schizophrenic state. All in a day we hear about the need for generous foreign donors to come to the rescue of thousands of victims of flooding in the hard-scrabble northeast where life is tough in the best of times.…
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East Asia
THAAD and anti-Chinese sentiment
Sah Dong-seok – The Korea Times Anti-American sentiment was once a hot-button issue in Korea. Koreans’ antipathy against the United States flared up amid allegations that their traditional ally has supported military dictatorship for decades. Arguments that the U.S. turned a blind eye to the military’s massacre of civilians in the…
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Central Asia
Trade turnover of Iran and Azerbaijan may surpass $300 million
The volume of trade turnover between Iran and Azerbaijan currently stands at about $100 million but it must increase considerably, the Iranian deputy minister of industry, mine and trade, Hossin Esfahbodi, said on the sidelines of the ongoing Iran Project 2016 in Baku, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Elaborating on existing trade…
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Central Asia
Russia to deploy S-400 air defense missile systems in Leningrad region
Two regiments of the S-400 air defense missile systems will be delivered to the Air Force and Air Defense unit deployed in the Leningrad region in the near future, the head of Russia’s Western Military Command’s press service Igor Muginov told journalists on September 21, TASS reports. “At this time,…
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East Asia
Where are Seoul-Beijing ties heading?
John Burton – The Korea Times The recent explosion of North Korea’s fifth and biggest nuclear bomb raises a key question of the whether the test will bring South Korea and China closer together or further apart. The test has hardened President Park Geun-hye’s determination to deploy the U.S. advanced…
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East Asia
S. Korea unlikely to help N. Korea recover from flood damage
South Korea said Monday that there is not much possibility that it will provide assistance to North Korea to help it recover from damage caused by recent floods given the high tensions following Pyongyang’s nuclear test. North Korea’s northeastern region is struggling to cope with what is being called its…
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Central Asia
Almazbek Atambayev to be treated in Turkey
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev was on a short-term vacation for medical examinations in Turkey and planned to get back to work on October 1, his press service said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Atambayev’s plane landed in Istanbul en route to the UN General Assembly in New York late Monday and the…
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West Asia
Iran rejects Saudi allegations on Yemen
The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations categorically rejects the allegations, as contained in Saudi Arabia’s letter to the President of the Security Council, dated 14 September 2016, regarding arms transfers to Yemen and violations of Security Council Resolution 2216, IRNA reports. This letter…
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