[학술논문] International Cooperation for the Promotion of North Korea’s Reform and Opening
...by promoting reform and opening of North Korea. Encouraging a more open and market-friendly economic system would benefit the North Korean people as a whole and generate a less confrontational foreign policy. Helping North Korea to join the international financial institutions would be the first step for promoting North Korea’s reform and opening. The very first thing for the international community...
[학술논문] North Korea’s Instrumentalization of Diplomacy: Passing Through the “Danger Zone” of its Nuclear Weapons Program
...imperial Germany embarked on a plan to build a major navy. In order to prevent preemption to be triggered by such a radical program, its leadership developed the so-called Tirpitz Plan, which German foreign policy wanted to become the instrument of this armament program and prevent preemption. By using the Tirpitz Plan as a matrix for analysis of North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy,new light is shed on...
[학술논문] 金正恩의 권력세습은 아직 未完成이다
Victor Cha could not be more correct to me when, in his essay entitled “Kim Jong Il Is No Reformer” carried by the September/October issue of the Foreign Policy, a U.S. bimonthly academic journal, he saw absolutely no hope for Kim Jong Un’s North Korea to take the path toward opening and reform. After 8 months from the passing of Kim Jong Il in December last year, Kim Jong Un, the...
[학술논문] The North Korean Nuclear Threat and South Korea’s Identity Politics in 2006
...“underbalancing” phenomenon. In the case of South Korea, it is impossible to generalize about how domestic politics is reflected in foreign policy with several domestic variables. In South Korea, inter-Korean relations are deeply linked to domestic politics, because policy toward North Korea includes cultural elements such as identity and norms. South Korea’s response to the North Korean nuclear...
[학술논문] China’s Anti-Access Strategy and Regional Contingencies: Implications for East Asian and Korean Security
...more than a dozen sources of foreign technologies are a nightmare for system integration and interoperability. • There exists asymmetry of military capability between China and its weaker neighbors. While the PLAN is weak in several important aspects, many of its neighbors’ navies are weaker still. • Some have argued that China’s foreign policy behavior apparently became more...