[학술논문] Regional Powers Grapple with North Korea’s New Leader Kim Jong Un
...the new DPRK leadership has become a vital security issue for the East Asian region. The Korean peninsula represents the one global hotspot where the direct interests of all the Asia-Pacific powers—China, Japan, Russia, and the United States—intersect. The new generation of leaders in Pyongyang, led by Kim Jong Un, has not fundamentally departed from Kim Jong Il’s policies. At the...
[학술논문] The Structural Elements of North Korea’s Insecurity Applying the “Regional Security Complex Theory”
North Korean insecurity is the focus of this paper. Kim Jong Un’s ship left the foggy port without a modified navigation chart from his father. The main elements of a track chart are maintaining the dictatorship, the nuclear-weapon policy, and the military-first policy. In this sense, Barry Buzan’s Regional Security Complex Theory is appropriate because security complexes in this region...
[학술논문] A Historical Contingency?: North Korea’s New Leadership Meets the Rise of China and the U.S. Re-engagement Policy
...China suggest an increasing possibility of conflict due to the U.S. re-engagement policy and China’s vigorous rise. From the perspective of the Korean peninsula,this historical transitional period occurs ironically alongside a huge transformation in North Korea, with the death of Kim Jong-il and the emergence of the new Kim Jong-un regime. If North Korea attempts to expand its economic relations...
[학술논문] Kim Jong Un’s First 500 Days: Consolidating Power and Clearing Political Space for National Revival
...influence of Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek and the emergence of Kim’s wife, Ri Sol Ju as a factor in family politics, as well as the regime’s efforts to preserve and modernize the Kim monarchy. The article will also discuss how the regime seeks to strengthen the socialist party-state, reinvigorate the party’s central leadership institutions, tighten the party’s control...
[학술논문] 김정은의 홀로서기와‘백두산 칼바람’⋅‘최첨단 돌파’의 과제 - 『조선문학』 소재 북한소설을 중심으로
...first year for Kim Jong Un, the chairman of the National Defense Committee to show his own politics in earnest, finishing ruling with dying instruction 3 years after his father, Jong-il Kim, died. Kim Jong Un directly announced ‘New Year’s Address of trying Standing-alone,’ selecting his grandfather, Kim Il Sung’s style rather than his farther, Jong-il Kim’s reclusive style...