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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
IN NORTHEAST ASIA, Russia's domestic and external interests are interconnected like in no other region. The guarantee of Russia's future as a great power lies in the economic, technological and social development of Siberia and the Far East. In regard to this vast region, the country's leadership has now set ambitious, far reaching goals whose accomplishment is to produce great results. There is no doubt that the stable development of Siberia and the Russian Far East with their natural and other resources will be comparable in its effects to the development of the West in the United States more than 100 years ago if it does not exceed them. It will, without a doubt, make an impact on all development processes both in the Asia Pacific region and outside.
The Legacy of the Cold War
THE RESOLUTION of domestic problems requires the absence of external threats. The main source of the military threat in Northeast Asia is the 60 year military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula. The Korean War started on June 25, 1950 between two Korean camps - the North, which strove to use the Soviet model for the country's unification, and the South, which committed itself to U.S. standards. In the context of the Cold War that local armed clash developed into a large scale military conflict which had almost put the world on the brink of a nuclear war. The great powers - the United States, Britain, the USSR, and China, as well as the UN, which started working on the Korean issue in 1947 and in 1950 actually became a party to the war - were directly or indirectly involved in the Korean War.
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