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Skand Tayal
About the AuthorSkand Tayal
The writer, a retired diplomat, has served as India�??s ambassador to South Korea
    War clouds gather in Persian GulfOpinion
    War clouds gather in Persian Gulf

    Any turmoil in the Persian Gulf will adversely affect the oil prices and would have major negative consequences for...

    15 May 2019 7:35 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Photo: AP/File)Opinion
    2nd Trump-Kim meet fails, amid Hanoi distrust

    President Trump continues to assess Chairman Kim as a constructive interlocutor and is ready to give him the benefit of...

    2 March 2019 1:53 AM IST

    Another tough nut to crack would be the nature and contents of the future security guarantees to North Korea. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Trump-Kim courtship full of uncertainties

    The roadmap for reaching these objectives has, till now, been laid out in three bilateral agreements.

    5 Feb 2019 2:21 AM IST

    Donald Trump and Kim Jong UnOpinion
    A dealmaker and a strategist in battle of wits

    Chairman Kim announced that a military agreement to create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula had been adopted.

    29 Sept 2018 1:41 AM IST

    Donald Trump and Kim Jong UnOpinion
    Expect the unexpected at Trump-Kim meet

    It is widely believed that a peace treaty in some form would be finalised between the US and North Korea.

    12 Jun 2018 12:44 AM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    US must talk to Tokyo, Seoul & Beijing on how to tackle Kim

    US needs to coordinate its North Korea policy at least with Seoul, Tokyo and China, if not with all other members of the...

    4 April 2018 7:21 AM IST

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in takes off his jacket at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday. South Korean internet users have shared photos of Moon waving off a presidential employee and taking off his own jacket at a luncheon, projecting an image that hes a down-to-earth President. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    Moon's Seoul to take a softer line

    Moon served as a respected human rights lawyer in the difficult days of authoritarian rule in the 1980s.

    16 May 2017 3:25 AM IST

    Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Keep Central Asia stable & secular

    The five CARs are predominantly Muslim-majority nations.

    30 Sept 2016 12:52 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A dissent channel?

    The creation of a formal Dissent Channel is unlikely to encourage senior Indian diplomats to air contrarian views.

    8 July 2016 3:28 AM IST

    The SCO summit held in Ufa in Russia last year approved inclusion of India and Pakistan to the list. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    In Tashkent, charting a new course?

    The SCO's six founding members aren't members of the nonaligned movement.

    20 Jun 2016 12:56 AM IST

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