[학술논문] The Rise and Fall of Inter-Korean Rapprochement: Shock, Leadership Change, Threat Perception and Strategic Calculation
...typically require a significant external or internal stimulus. Environmental disruptions, such as shocks or leadership transitions, often serve as catalysts for this recalibration. In three out of four instances of rapprochement initiation, a major shock played a role. Similarly, leadership change was evident in three of the four cases. However, these variables were not prominent in the termination of...
[학술논문] Jasmine Does Not Bloom in Pyongyang: The Persistent Non-transition in North Korea
...struck the Middle East and African regions. Following the Arab Spring or Jasmine Revolution, many pundits stated that North Korea could be the next to be affected by this wind of change, and the North Korean dictatorial leadership could collapse soon. This assumption acquired further validity soon after Kim Jong-il’s death. This paper draws on the democratic transition and consolidation literature...
[학술논문] Stalin’s Death and the Implications for Ending the Korean War
...Korea would serve as a diversion to help USSR win in Europe insisted that the Korean War continues in despite the misgivings of Chinese and North Korean leaders. By May 1953, no one in the Soviet leadership doubted any longer that the time had come for a settlement in Korea. Thus Stalin’s death opened a way for a group of high-ranking political leaders to carry out a flurry of political reforms...
[학술논문] 1945~1948년 북한 소비조합 정책의 전개
...that came directly from colonial days. Changes in political and economic conditions since the liberation also enabled new entities like the consumer cooperatives to enter the market. North Korean leadership may have blindly adopted the Soviet model out of an ideological initiative, but under the handling of the North Korean Socialists, they were bound to evolve, or, of course, not. The North Korean...
[학술논문] Acculturation as a frustration-negotiation cycle: North Korean women defectors in South Korea
Ever since the corrupt leadership of North Korea stopped distributing wages and food, men’s role as breadwinners was upended and the family structure has altered. Wives tended to take on both roles, as breadwinners and homemakers because their husbands became unable to provide financial security for their families. North Korea has had a male-dominated family structure, where a man’s authority...