Seoul and Tokyo fall out again – to Pyongyang’s benefit



Analysis Seoul and Tokyo fall out again – to Pyongyang’s benefit Cancelled sub drill highlights how history hamstrings a fragile alliance Aidan Foster-Carter January 12, 2017 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Kremlin.ru Unity is strength, division portends weakness. Few truths are more elementary, or obvious. Is the whole world united against North Korea, as Western rhetoric would have us believe? Six unanimous UN Security Council resolutions in a decade condemning the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests, with ever more stringent sanctions attached, might suggest as much. But look more closely. UNSCR 2321, the latest and toughest, is dated November 30 – almost three months after the object of its censure, North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, on September 9. What took them so long? Unity is not spontaneous: it has to © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Seoul and Tokyo fall out again – to Pyongyang’s benefit

Cancelled sub drill highlights how history hamstrings a fragile alliance

Aidan Foster-Carter January 12, 2017

Seoul and Tokyo fall out again – to Pyongyang’s benefit

Kremlin.ru

Unity is strength, division portends weakness. Few truths are more elementary, or obvious.

Is the whole world united against North Korea, as Western rhetoric would have us believe? Six unanimous UN Security Council resolutions in a decade condemning the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests, with ever more stringent sanctions attached, might suggest as much.

But look more closely. UNSCR 2321, the latest and toughest, is dated November 30 – almost three months after the object of its censure, North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, on September 9.

What took them so long? Unity is not spontaneous: it has to

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Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

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