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Skand Tayal
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The writer, a retired diplomat, has served as India�??s ambassador to South Korea
    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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