[학술논문] Building Conditions for Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Prioritizing Countervalue over Counterforce
...I assess North Korea’s current and near-term capabilities and plans, and the implications of a dual-capable, increasingly diversified nuclear force for crisis stability. Second, I weigh the assured-retaliation (countervalue) tradition against the denial-centric (counterforce) perspective spurred by advances in sensing, accuracy, and military use of AI. Third, I revisit the late-1960s–1970s U.S.–Soviet...
[학위논문] 북한 핵 위협수준 분석과 맞춤형 재래식·핵통합(CNI) 억제방안
...assembly have a defensive intention in terms of management and operation. Although the nuclear posture is declaratively asymmetric retaliation, it maintains a hybrid nuclear posture that combines strategically ambiguous assured retaliation and asymmetric retaliation posture. Currently, North Korea's Nuclear threat level is 'medium', both in terms of capabilities and intentions considering quantitative...
[학술논문] 미중 패권 경쟁 시나리오와 북한의 대응 전략 분석
...시나리오에서는 비용 전가(buck-passing)형 동맹 외교, 선언적 공세와 실질적 억제를 병행하는 이중 핵전략(dual nuclear strategy), 그리고 제한적·국지적 도발을 활용하는 대북·대미 저강도 전략을 추구할 것으로 예상된다. 화해/콘서트(concert) 체제 복원 시나리오에서는 위험 분산형의 등거리 동맹 외교, 확증보복(assured retaliation)에 초점을 둔 핵 억제 전략, 한미동맹을 대상으로 도발과 유화를 병행하는 혼합 전략을 구사할 가능성이 있다. 현재 한반도 안보 환경은 신냉전 시나리오에 가장 근접해 있는 것으로 평가되나, 북한의 모험주의적 편승(bandwagoning) 전략은 상황을 열전 국면으로 확산시킬 수 있는 잠재적 위험을 내포하고 있다. 이에 따라 한국은 미·중 전략...
[학위논문] 핵개발 전략이 핵협상에 미치는 영향 : 이란과 북한 사례를 중심으로
...Soviet Union and China as a powerful sponsor. As long as North Korea does not deteriorate its relationship with China, it is unlikely to choose the strategies of assured retaliation or asymmetric escalation. In the case of assured retaliation, North Korea's leadership can pick it up because it is possible to take control of the military. However, not the actual use of nuclear weapons, but just the nuclear...
[학위논문] 김정은 시기의 핵전략 변화 연구 -대외환경과 김정은의 선택-
...in 2017, it developed a strategy of internal balancing against the US by completing its national nuclear force. The Kim Jong-un regime sought to secure nuclear deterrence through a limited assured retaliation nuclear strategy while pursuing negotiations with the United States. In December 2017, President Trump sent a message through UN Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman that he was willing to...