ABSTRACT
Relations with South Korea became a priority in Russia's Asian-Pacific foreign policy. After emergence of the democratic regime in Russia in 1991 92, relations between Moscow and Seoul continued to develop. Up to the present, exchanges between Russia and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have remained relatively dynamic. At the end of summer 1992, the Russian Foreign Ministry advanced a thesis that Moscow should seek balanced relations with both South and North Korea, and that it was important for Russians and Americans to maintain their security arrangements on the peninsula in order to ensure stability. In political relations, the Russian foreign minister in 1993 denounced demands by certain South Korean officials that Moscow renounce military clauses in the Soviet North Korean alliance treaty of 1961. Military cooperation between Russia and North Korea is being gradually restored. In June 1994 President Kim Young Sam paid an official visit to Russia, and the two sides confirmed their mutual desire to develop bilateral relations.
