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Yoon Young-kwan

Yoon Young-kwan, a former foreign affairs minister of the Republic of Korea, is the chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

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Opinion: What to make of the new Russia-North Korea alliance

by Yoon Young-kwan
Not content with disturbing the peace in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un. As troubling to China’s leaders as it is to Western officials, the deal is shaking up the geopolitics of Northeast Asia and sending reverberations around the world. Despite the strategic unease that Putin has provoked, the West must be careful neither to overestimate nor underestimate the treaty’s importanc