[학술논문] Reconstructing North Korea’s plutonium production history with Bayesian inference-based reprocessing waste analysis

...scrutiny, estimates of its fissile material stockpiles remain fraught with uncertainty. In potential future disarmament agreements, inspectors may need to use nuclear archaeology methods to verify or gain confidence in a North Korean fissile material declaration. This study explores the potential utility of a Bayesian inference-based analysis of the isotopic composition of reprocessing waste to reconstruct...

[학술논문] Human Rights, Transparency and Transborder Collaboration in Korea: The Case for a Deliberative Approach at the Kaesong Industrial Complex

...South Korea and North Korea. By providing an analysis of ongoing developments and drawing upon recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, I argue that for Kaesong to reach its full potential and gain international credibility, its governance must be strengthened. The most promising way to achieve this aim, despite the seemingly long odds, is to launch a permanent forum in which representatives of...

[학술논문] The North Korean Nuclear Program: From a Conditional Bargaining Chip to the Ultima Ratio in Deterrence

...political, and economic problems has increasingly hardened. In this sense, North Korea essentially re-conceptualized its own nuclear weapons program as its ultima ratio for its policy and security needs. In the paper, I am using the term "ultima ratio" as an analytical tool and in order to frame Pyongyang's re-positioning of its nuclear weapons program, moving it out of the diplomatic context and placing...

[학술논문] The Politics of Economic Sanctions against North Korea: the Bush Administration’s Strategy toward a Multilateral Governance

On October 12, 2008, as a successful result of Six-Party Talks, the U.S. government de-listed North Korea from the terrorism sponsoring states which was the one of main reasons of economic sanctions against North Korea. Although it could not be viewed as an imminent and irreversible one, the softening of the Bush administration’s positions represents a major change in distrustful interactions between

[학술논문] The Fluctuation of Inter-Korean Relations and Theoretical Perspectives: Neofunctionalism, Neorealism, and Neoliberalism

During the High-Level Talks period (1990-1992), the two Koreas showed their “good faith” to end antagonism and build the foundations of peaceful coexistence and ease tension. There was no real willingness to accept the other party’s position and no real agreements were reached at all. As a result, the High-Level talks and other related efforts to achieve greater inter-Korean cooperation were bound

[해외] America Needs an Alliance Audit

President Donald Trump is laying waste to the United States’ long-standing system of alliances. By extorting old friends for short-term gain, threatening to annex allied territory, and applying tariffs indiscriminately, he has squandered decades of cooperation that has served U.S. interests worldwide. When Trump eventually leaves office, the next president will have to decide whether to try to restore...