[학술논문] U.S. Northeast Asia Policy: Revitalizing Alliances and Preserving Peace on the Peninsula
...relationships and the prospects and priorities for building a Northeast Asia security architecture. It focuses in particular on U.S. Korea policy (South and North) while also assessing the prospects for the currently ill-fated Six-Party Talks (involving North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.), discussing how this Korean Peninsula denuclearization process both informs and impacts U.S. attitudes...
[학술논문] THE CLASH OF SOFT POWERS BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN: SYNERGY AND DILEMMAS AT THE SIX-PARTY TALKS
This article argues that during the Six-Party Talks on North Korea, China adroitly used its diplomacy to produce “soft-power synergy” while Japan became stuck with a “softpower dilemma.” Soft-power synergy refers to an outcome within which a success of an outward (foreign) soft-power strategy brings about simultaneous success of inward (domestic) soft-power strategy. On the...
[학술논문] 분단과 전쟁의 디아스포라-재일조선인 문제를 중심으로
...the war. And then it is to consider how the division and the war had influence on Korean residents in Japan and why they, especially, came to be repatriated to North Korea from 1959 to 1984. Their repatriation to North Korea was due to the secret talks and conspiracy between North Korea and Japan. Another accomplice was the strange connivance of super states, that is, U.S.A, former Soviet Union, and...
[학술논문] 1950년대 후반 북송문제에 대한 한·미·일의 인식과 대응
The issue of Koreans resident in Japan in the latter half of the 1950s was handled under an out of ordinary practice of sending them to North Korea, rather than being discussed within the framework of the Korea-Japan Conference (1951-1964). An observation of how the issue was raised during the bilateral talks and the actual execution of the repatriation plan provides a window into the logic behind...
[학술논문] NORTH KOREA’S BRINKMANSHIP AND THE TASK TO SOLVE THE “NUCLEAR DILEMMA”
...positions of China and South Korea, on one hand, and the United States and Japan, on the other. Instead, a combination of bilateral and multilateral negotiations needs to be adopted. Third, the nuclear talks should go beyond the resolution of nuclear issues to deal with “normalizing North Korea,”which includes a future regional order, system reforms in North Korea, and peaceful coexistence...