[학술논문] North Korea’s Nuclear Decision-making and Plausible Scenarios
North Korea continues to enhance its nuclear capability. The plenary meeting of the Korean Workers Party’s Central Committee, held on March 31, 2013, ended with a declaration of North Korea’s commitment to perfecting all its military and operational strategies, for deterrence and warfare alike, in a way that emphasizes the pivotal role of its nuclear weapons. In other words, North Korea...
[학술논문] North Korean Nuclear Armament and Perspective on Nuclear Domino in Northeast Asia
North Korea had shown its nuclear capability through three nuclear tests. This threatens peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. When North Korea increases nuclear warheads with its miniaturization and has transportation measure, it is to intimidate neighboring countries directly, being under situation to be received nuclear horror and menace. If a nuclear-armed DPRK is not...
[학술논문] Game Changer: North Korea under the Obama-Lee Partnership and Beyond
...actually retaliate against North Korea is responsible for the successive failures to deter North Korea’s repeated limited-aim attacks, not a lack of capability. The author argues that credible intimidation lies at the core of “Proactive Deterrence.” Case studies in this paper also show that inconsistency in policy toward North Korea should be considered an important factor in the failure...
[학위논문] 北韓의 對美 非對稱 抑止.强制 戰略 : 핵과 미사일 사례를 중심으로
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Third, the ultimate goal of the North Korean asymmetric deterrence and compellance strategy is the regime survival. Namely, North Korea wants to deter security threat from the United States and then exact economic reward through the nuclear threats and deals. It may be true that North Korea possesses deterrence capability through its nuclear and missile program that makes the cost of U.S...
[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
...critical interests of the US. Especially since the 9.11 terrorist attacks, the US focused on interdicting connections between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction(WMD), surpassing the scope of deterrence and implying willingness to conduct preemptive strikes if needs be. An interesting note here is that the same tonality persists even after the historic South-North Summit Talks in June, 2000, the...