Diplomacy Journal Lee Sung Jun | South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs convened an emergency task force meeting at 10:30 p.m. on 26 August, chaired by Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, following the loss of contact with nine South Korean nationals employed by Korea Southern Power and Doosan Enerbility after a sudden flash flood struck the Rasuwa region of Nepal on the morning of 26 August, local time. The workers had been involved in the construction of a hydropower plant in the area. The meeting was attended by officials from the South Korean Embassy in Nepal, the National Police Agency, the Min
Diplomacy Journal Lee Sung Jun | NEW DELHI — When India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty on September 19, 1960, it was widely hailed as a landmark achievement in international water diplomacy, brokered by the World Bank amid one of the world's most fraught bilateral relationships. More than six decades later, however, the agreement faces mounting scrutiny — not for what it accomplished, but for what critics describe as a fundamentally inequitable architecture that systematically disadvantaged India from the outset. A detailed analysis of the treaty's negotiating history and operatio
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo “Tajikistan stands ready for strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation with the Republic of Korea in such areas as hydropower, textile, light, chemical and food industries, mining and processing of mineral ore and rare metals, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, transport and tourism,” said Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Republic of Korea Salohiddin Kirom on March 14. In an exclusive interview with Diplomacy Journal held at the Embassy of Tajikistan in Hannan-dong, Seoul, Amb. Salohiddin Kirom said, “Tajikistan is open to