[해외자료] The Unintended Consequences of NATO’s Drift Toward Asia

As one might expect, the July 11-12 National Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, concentrated predominately on the ongoing war in Ukraine, NATO’s continued military support to the Ukrainian army and how best to deepen the alliance’s strategic relationship with Kyiv. But as has become increasingly common over the last several years, NATO also

[해외자료] Countering the North Korean Threat: New Steps in U.S. Policy

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Representative Engel and distinguished Members of the Committee, it is a distinct honor to appear before this committee to discuss the challenges posed by North Korea to U.S. policy for the new administration.

[해외자료] Signals on U.S.-South Korea Cost Sharing Negotiations Outpace Those of Inter-Korean Talks

According toPredataanalytics, Korean internet users showed relative indifference toward the high level inter-Korean exchanges this week. Instead, they appeared to care more about upcoming talks with the Americans. On March 4, the Korean-language Wikipedia page for

[해외자료] South Korea’s President Park

In 2011, as she geared up for the 2012 presidential election in South Korea, Park Geun-hye told aides that she would like to reach out to some of the people her father fought and even imprisoned when he was the country’s authoritarian ruler in the 1960s and 1970s. A few years earlier, she developed a relationship with the man her father treated the worst, Kim Dae-jung, who as president in the

[해외자료] Mr. and Mrs. Kim Go to Beijing

On March 25-28,North Korean leader Kim Jong-un traveled with his wife Ri Sol-ju to Beijingto meet Chinese president Xi Jinping. This was Kim Jong-un’s first foreign visit as the head of state and his first visit to China since becoming North Korea’s supreme

[학위논문] 후견국의 동맹 관리 딜레마 - 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인에 대한 연구 -

본 논문은 후견국으로서 중국의 대북한 동맹 관리를 분석하였고, 중국이 북한 비핵화의 목표를 달성하지 못한 원인을 중국의 낮은 협상력에서 찾았다. 동맹과 핵확산의 이론적 논의를 바탕으로 북중동맹의 사례를 비교 분석함으로써 가설을 검증하는 이론기반 사례연구 방법을 통해 이를 고찰하였다. 동맹 관리와 핵비확산 간의 관계를 다룬 이론에서 얻은 통찰력으로 본 논문은 북한의 대중국 군사적 의존도를 하나의 변수로 놓고, 중국의 대북한 이익 공약의 강도를 또 다른 하나의 변수로 간주하여 그 변수들간 결합이 중국의 대북한 협상력을 결정한다는 분석 틀을 제시하였다. 동맹 관리의 결과는 동맹국 간 상대적 협상력에 따라 결정한다. 이러한 틀 속에서 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인을 설명하고자 했다.

[학술논문] Utsunomiya Tokuma (MP, 1906-2000) and the Abduction Case of Kim Tae-jung (1973) : Pushing Toward Policy Change in Japanese-Korean Relations

...Movement. As son of a military man, Utsunomiya chose a completely different career than his father albeit taking in his Asianist thought. Tokuma became a devout pacifist and negated Japan's alliances with militarist countries such as South Korea and Taiwan and opted for normalization with China and North Korea. Against this backdrop, he stayed the strongest supporter of Kim Tae-jung in Japan...

[현안분석] 미중 경쟁과 한국의 대응: 냉전의 역사로부터 교훈 찾기

...self-reliance, and diplomatic diversification. Under the current circumstances, Korea continues to need U.S. extended deterrence. Although Korea has been reluctant to get involved in the U.S.-led network of alliances, it had to accept that, if U.S.-China relations further deteriorate, the contraction of the Korea-China relationship would be somewhat inevitable. Watching closely the trend of U.S.-China relations...

[학술논문] Past, Present, and Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance in the Indo-Pacific Era

The Republic of Korea (ROK)-US alliance has remained robust and on solid footing for over 70 years. As with other alliances, however, the ROK-US alliance has also experienced its fair share of turbulence stemming from shifts in the regional security environment as well as domestic political change. This paper evaluates such regional and domestic political shifts in the ROK-US alliance in the Indo-Pacific...

[학술논문] Enhancing Allied Deterrence against North Korea’s Nuclear Growing Arsenal

...Korean diktats. North Korea’s increasingly viable ability to target the continental United States with nuclear weapons exacerbates long-standing allied fears of abandonment and decoupling of alliances, encapsulated in the oft-cited phrase – “would the U.S. really trade San Francisco for Seoul?” While South Koreans repeatedly demand greater U.S. efforts at proving its commitment...