[학술논문] An Arms Race between South and North Korea: A Causality Test
This study explores a possibility of an arms race between South and North Korea using Granger causality test for the period 1953-2002. An error correction model in a multivariate framework including South Korea’s GDP is employed. The estimation results indicate no existence of an arms race between two Koreas but a unidirectional causality running from defense spending of North Korea to that of...
[학술논문] The Reinforcement of Military Capability and Its Effects in Asia
With these major countries military movement, Asian countries have no option but improve their military capability in response to the environmental changes though. Each country has inevitably put more money into military sector year by year, meanwhile North Korea went to build nuclear capability economically. Each country’s effect to modernize its military capability has made up security escalation
[학술논문] A Strategic Cooperation between the ROK and the US under the New Operational Cooperation Design
...operational control has, however, faced severe opposition from conservative groups who claim that it may make the ROK security situation more un-stable by weakening the ROK-US alliance and by provoking an arms race amongst neighboring states. In addition, it could, they argue, cause an economic crisis due to the heavy expenditure involved in replacing US forces with Korean ones. Nevertheless, the transfer is...
[학술논문] Rethinking the Helsinki Peace Model in Northeast Asia: Lessons, Limits, and Prospects
...Korea’s advancing nuclear capabilities, recurring historical and territorial disputes, and the absence of an inclusive regional security framework. As the risk of interstate conflict and a large-scale arms race grows, the need to develop cooperative security mechanisms becomes more urgent. This study argues that while the direct application of the Helsinki model to 21st-century Northeast Asia is neither...
[학위논문] 韓·美 安保協力體制下에서 美國의 韓半島 危機管理戰略 硏究
.../> Second, resolving North Korea's WMD problems, including nuclear and missile issues. North Korea's WMD problems not only pose threats to inter-Korean progresses, but may also trigger arms-race in the Northeast Asia and undermine the regional stability. Especially given the implication of 9.11 terrorist attacks, WMD have garnered main attraction from the US, further driving the Korean peninsula...