[학술논문] Game Changer: North Korea under the Obama-Lee Partnership and Beyond
Existing theories of coercive diplomacy logically pinpoint missing elements in the negotiating process and resulting outcomes concerning North Korean issues. They do not, however, explain why we have failed to obtain the elements crucial for influencing North Korean leaders’ perceptions. This paper claims that a lack of will to actually retaliate against North Korea is responsible for the successive
[학술논문] North Korea’s Pursuit of Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Expanding Cyber and Counterspace Capabilities
...summits. By redefining the offense–defense theory within the context of the information age, this study addresses the underexplored role of cyber and space capabilities in North Korea's asymmetric warfare strategy. Specifically, it demonstrates how North Korea operates in these domains to exploit vulnerabilities in the interconnectedness of global networks to create new avenues for coercion...
[학위논문] 北韓의 對美 非對稱 抑止.强制 戰略 : 핵과 미사일 사례를 중심으로
...public opinions. If decision makers are free from public opinion or able to defy it, there are more possibility for them to choose audacious policy measures such as an asymmetric strategy. As we can see in Iraqi case, the asymmetric strategy can end up with a lopsided defeat and major catastrophe to its own practitioner if it fails to deter much more powerful enemy states. North Korean leaders are...
[학술논문] Critical Analysis on the Development of North Korea’s Nuclear/Missile Technology in the View of Strategic Theory
The Korean peninsula is a major hot spot of the 21st century where many different types of battles, including conventional provocations, asymmetric warfare, missile/nuclear threats, terrorist attacks, and cyber DDoS attacks, are still waged. While the peninsula is still under a grave threat of a new round of Korean War, it is still difficult to ‘explain’ (positivism) or ‘understand’...
[학위논문] 北韓의 先軍軍事戰略에 관한 硏究
...that Kim JungIL would not be able to initiate any reckless military provocation on the Korean Peninsula.
Keywords: Songun military strategy, Songun politics, "Powerful and prosperous nation", militaryfirst ideology, strategic weapons, weapons of mass destruction, asymmetric combat capability, mass destruction strategy, allout surprise attack strategy, cyber strategy.