The author believes that the signing of a peace treaty between the USSR and Japan is the paramount prerequisite for successful development of their relations. He examines Soviet-Japanese economic relations and notes that trade and economic relations with the USSR not only constitute an...

According to the author, the present state of the world as a whole, and of the Asia-Pacific Region (APR), in particular, appears to be developing mainly in a direction favouring positive shifts in the Korean Peninsula, on which the prospects for Soviet-South Korean relations largely depend. He...