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Chapter 3 - Russia and the Two Koreas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2009

Samuel S. Kim
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To industrialize our country, the primary issue before us is to learn from the Soviet Union…. we must set going a tidal wave of learning from the Soviet Union on a nationwide scale, in order to build up our country …‘follow the path of the Russians.’

– Renmin ribao [People's Daily], 14 February 1953

One cannot say that, as it stands, the post-1991 Russian Federation is really a nation-state. It is more a bleeding hulk of empire: what happened to be left over when the other republics broke away.

– Geoffrey Hosking, 1997

And all our decisions, all our actions must be designed to secure Russia a place among strong, economically developed and influential countries in the foreseeable future…. I believe that Russia's return to the community of rich, developed, strong, and respected countries of the world must be our fundamental goal.

– Vladimir Putin, 2003

The Russia Factor

What is most striking about the new identity and role of Russia in Korean affairs is not that there have been no situation-specific turns and twists – for indeed there were many, as we discuss later in the chapter – but that in the transition from the Cold War to post–Cold War era Moscow, more than Washington, Beijing, or Tokyo, started with a bang and ended with a whimper.

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The Two Koreas and the Great Powers , pp. 102 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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