Archivo etiqueta «Corea del Norte»
By Brad Patty, who has deployed multiple times as an information operations specialist and is a fellow of the Warrior Legacy Institute (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 19/02/10):
Last week, German president Horst Kohler warned South Korea to prepare to reunify with North Korea sooner than is commonly expected. The German president’s ad- -vice is a warning, drawn from the experience of integrating East Germany with West Germany at the end of the Cold War. The situation with North Korea is much worse, because the poverty is at levels East Germany never knew, and the population has been so cut off from… Seguir leyendo
By Henry A. Kissinger, secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/12/09):
The American special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, returned from Pyongyang last week after unusually benign conversations. The North Korean government affirmed “the need to resume six-power talks” on the nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula. It added, however, the proviso that the United States and Korea “needed to cooperate to narrow the remaining differences” before it would rejoin the established six-power diplomatic framework, from which it walked out a year ago while abandoning all the undertakings it had made during those talks. In… Seguir leyendo
Por Mitchell B. Reiss, diplomático residente en el College of William & Mary de Williamsburg, Virginia (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 02/09/09):
Tema: Los últimos ensayos nucleares de Corea del Norte han provocado una nueva crisis en la península de Corea.
Resumen: La última detonación nuclear de Corea del Norte, sus ensayos con misiles balísticos y su provocadora retórica han causado una nueva crisis en la península de Corea. En vez de intentar obligar a este país a volver a la mesa de negociaciones a seis bandas para continuar con unas conversaciones que no llevan a ninguna parte, sería mucho mejor reconocer… Seguir leyendo
By Henry A. Kissinger, secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/08/09):
Amid the widespread relief that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have avoided the brutal fate meted out to them by a North Korean court, it may seem captious to consider the long-term implications of President Bill Clinton’s trip.
The impulse to save two young women from 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean gulag is powerful. Yet now that this goal has been achieved, we need to balance the emotions of the moment against the precedent for the future.
It is… Seguir leyendo
By Douglas H. Paal, the vice president of studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and was the top American representative to Taiwan under President George W. Bush (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/08/09):
The criticisms from some of my fellow Republicans of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s success in gaining the release of two American journalists from North Korea’s gulag are misplaced. The Clintons’ behavior demonstrated respect for the expertise of their advisers and restraint from political… Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall, an assistant editor of the Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist (THE GUARDIAN, 04/08/09):
Barack Obama’s decision to send Bill Clinton to North Korea will be seen as a gamble by both fans and critics of the US administration’s policy of engagement with “states of concern”. While Clinton’s primary aim is to secure the release of two American journalists arrested last March, this unexpectedly bold demarche will inevitably be viewed strategically as yet another attempt by Washington to bring the enigmatic panjandrums of Pyongyang in from the cold.
US policy towards North Korea is more circular than… Seguir leyendo
By Roberta Cohen, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in humanitarian and human rights issues, and a board member of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/07/09):
The now-defunct six-party talks in which the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China participated focused almost exclusively on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But with a struggle for succession underway in Pyongyang and some of the country’s internal controls reportedly beginning to erode, it’s time to rethink the near-exclusion of human rights from the U.S.-North Korean dialogue.
The fear of raising human rights… Seguir leyendo
Por Xavier Boltaina, profesor de la facultad de Derecho. Universitat de Barcelona (LA VANGUARDIA, 21/06/09):
Se atribuye a Churchill la frase de que la Unión Soviética era un “enigma dentro de un misterio envuelto en un acertijo”. Las noticias sobre Corea del Norte, oficialmente denominada República Popular Democrática de Corea (RPDC), han sido constantes en los últimos meses, pero la opacidad del régimen hace dudar de la veracidad de muchas de aquellas y nos recuerdan la frase del líder inglés.
La RPDC, fundada en 1948, ocupa 120.000 km2de la península coreana y su población se sitúa alrededor de 23-25 millones.… Seguir leyendo
Por Mijail Gorbachov, ex presidente de la URSS y Nobel de la Paz en 1990. Distribuido por The New YorkTimes Syndicate (EL PERIÓDICO, 21/06/09):
Las noticias de la prueba nuclear en Corea del Norte el 25 de mayo llegaron cuando yo estaba visitando la zona desmilitarizada en la península de Corea. Había sido invitado a la ceremonia de inauguración de una campana de la paz en el paralelo 38, la línea de tregua donde las hostilidades entre el norte y el sur de Corea cesaron en 1953.
Escuchando a los surcoreanos, sentí su alarma y preocupación por su propia… Seguir leyendo
By Henry A. Kissinger, national security adviser to President Richard M. Nixon and secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Gerald R. Ford (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/06/09):
The Obama administration entered office determined to give negotiations with North Korea every opportunity. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted that she was seriously considering a visit to Pyongyang. Stephen Bosworth, a distinguished scholar and moderate diplomat, was appointed principal negotiator.
These overtures were vituperatively rejected. Pyongyang refuses to return to the negotiating table and has revoked all its previous concessions. It has restarted the nuclear reprocessing plant it had mothballed and has… Seguir leyendo
Por Gustavo de Arístegui, portavoz de Asuntos Exteriores del Grupo Popular en el Congreso (EL MUNDO, 02/06/09):
El reciente ensayo con misiles de largo alcance del estrafalario y anacrónico régimen de Corea del Norte, unido a la amenaza directa que ha formulado contra Corea del Sur y el no reconocimiento del armisticio entre ambos países, ha vuelto a poner en la primera página de la preocupación de la opinión pública mundial la amenaza nuclear y el riesgo de una grave y galopante proliferación, que muy bien podría abrir camino a una muy peligrosa carrera armamentística en regiones especialmente… Seguir leyendo
Por Mateo Madridejos, periodista e historiador (EL PERIÓDICO, 30/05/09):
El conflicto de Corea (1950-1953), paroxismo de la guerra fría, terminó en un armisticio ahora en entredicho dictado por el cansancio de los contendientes, la muerte de Stalin, su brutal instigador, y el temor de China a las furias atómicas del presidente Eisenhower tras la sonada destitución del general MacArthur por Truman en el ocaso del mandato de este. Casi 60 años después, el statu quo en el Extremo Oriente está alterado por el empecinamiento de Corea del Norte de dotarse del arma nuclear, de modo que Seúl y Tokio se… Seguir leyendo
By Richard Lloyd Parri (THE TIMES, 29/05/09):
Korea has been such a huge and intractable problem for so many decades now that it is easy to think of it as just an unpleasant fact of life, like drizzle or midges or the aches and pains of age. There it lies on the far side of the world; we know something’s wrong over there, but we can’t always remember what.
The Korean War was the one that our grandfathers were too old for, and our fathers too young. We could probably find it on an atlas, but it would take a… Seguir leyendo
By Norman Dombey (THE GUARDIAN, 27/05/09):
A framework agreement between Washington and Pyongyang reached under the Clinton administration specified that the US, with Japan and South Korea, would build two light-water reactors to supply power in North Korea and that fuel oil would be provided until the reactors were operating. In return, North Korea would shut down the plutonium-producing reactor and reprocessing line at Yongbyon and sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) as a non-weapon state.
When George Bush took office in 2001, he refused to confirm his administration was bound by a “no hostile intent” statement, declared North Korea… Seguir leyendo
By dan Blumenthal, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Kagan, a monthly columnist for The Post and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/05/09):
The North Korean launch of its Taeopodong-2 missile and its second nuclear test have laid bare the paucity of President Obama’s policy options. They have exposed the futility of the six-party talks and, in particular, the much-hyped myth of China’s value as a partner on strategic matters. The Obama administration claims that it wants to break with the policies of its predecessor. This is one… Seguir leyendo