The Asia Institute’s senior associate Markku Heiskanen spoke with Finland’s leading journal\u00a0Suomen Kuvalehti \u00a0about his insights into the current Korean crisis.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPYONGYANG\u2019S SELF-CONFIDENCE IS INCREASING\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Interview with Markku Heiskanen<\/p>\n Senior Associate<\/p>\n The Asia Institute in Finland\u2019s leading journal<\/p>\n Suomen Kuvalehti<\/p>\n March 15, 2013.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSanctions lead nowhere,\u201d says North Korea expert Markku Heiskanen<\/strong><\/p>\n \n By\u00a0Susan Heikkinen<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n Suomen Kuvalehti<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNorth Korea abrogated the Armistice Agreement of 1953 with South Korea this time. How serious is this crisis?\u201d<\/p>\n Markku Heiskanen<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe rhetoric North Korea is using is in line with what we have seen already for years and decades. This crisis is not terribly serious at the moment, but there is a difference of degree compared with previous ones. The further North Korea\u2019s nuclear and rocket programs advance, the more self-confidence it will have and the more it will flex its muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Full text<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Asia Institute’s senior associate Markku Heiskanen spoke with Finland’s leading journal\u00a0Suomen Kuvalehti \u00a0about his insights into the current Korean crisis. \u201cPYONGYANG\u2019S SELF-CONFIDENCE IS INCREASING\u201d Interview with Markku Heiskanen Senior Associate The Asia Institute in Finland\u2019s leading journal Suomen Kuvalehti March 15, 2013. \u00a0 \u201cSanctions lead nowhere,\u201d says North Korea expert Markku Heiskanen By\u00a0Susan … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[651,9657613,10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia-institute","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}