[해외자료] South Korea’s New Minister of Unification, Cho Myung-gyon

Cho Myung-gyon is South Korea’s new Minister of Unification. He was nominated by President Moon Jae-in on June 13 and took office on July 3, 2017.

[해외자료] Global Leaders Forum Address by His Excellency President Moon Jae-in

n June 30, 2017, His Excellency Moon Jae-in, President of the Republic of Korea, delivered a Global Leaders Forum address to a Washington D.C. foreign policy audience of more than 250 at CSIS headquarters. This occasion marked several firsts: President Moon's first foreign policy address abroad, his first visit to the United States as president, and his first summit meeting with the Donald J....

[해외자료] Powering the Korean Peninsula: Economic and Strategic Considerations

Negotiations between North and South Korea have revived prospects for reconnecting the Korean peninsula. South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un came to an agreement in 2018 to advance broader inter-Korean relations. A critical aspect of connectivity is energy infrastructure, which will require analysis and technical planning to make the most of any future political openings...

[해외자료] Geopolitics and President Moon’s Economic Policy Development

South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, in his first two months in office is trying to ease the country’s relations with North Korea just as his liberal predecessors, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, sought to do. Moon opened the door to negotiations and even a summit with the North’s Kim Jong-un, but he has also spoken critically of the North’s missile tests and, with a missile...

[해외자료] Making Solid Tracks: North Korea’s Railway Connections with China and Russia

...the re-connection of the railways in North and South Korea, the rail networks of the Korean peninsula can then be joined with those across the Eurasian continent through China and Russia. President Moon has been building on South Korea’s longstanding, albeit intermittent, conversations and aspirational cooperation commitments with China and Russia to plan for future integration of their railway...

[학술논문] Past, Present, and Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance in the Indo-Pacific Era

...change. This paper evaluates such regional and domestic political shifts in the ROK-US alliance in the Indo-Pacific era. The first section of the paper evaluates the ROK-US alliance under President Moon Jae-in with the onset of the US Indo-Pacific strategy initiated by the Trump administration and carried forward by the Biden administration. The second section examines where the alliance stands under...

[학술논문] Convergence and Tensions in the ROK-U.S. Alliance: Policy Differences Require Deft Alliance Management

...end-of-war declaration, wartime operational control (OPCON) transition, North Korean policy, an expanded South Korean security role of the Indo-Pacific, and improving South Korean-Japanese relations. The Moon administration has called for reducing UN and U.S. sanctions, signing an end-of-war declaration, and providing additional concessions to North Korea simply to induce the regime back to the negotiating...

[학술논문] What Differentiates Kim Jong-Il from Gaddafi : Problems of Nuclear Development Factor Analysis Methods and Proposal of Alternatives

...paper makes clear the implications of North Korea's nuclear policy for the future not only of North Korea but for both North and South Korea, the entire Korean peninsula. During the presidency of Moon Jae-in, there was a widespread perception that the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs should treat those who contributed to the establishment of the North Korean regime as subjects of national...

[현안분석] South and North Korean Integration and North Korea’s Adaptability

Previous studies on inter-Korean integration have proposed the basic frameworks for the integration of system in each sector in the context of institutional integration. In particular, the researchers have mainly dealt with the details of integration for each sector - which forms of system will be applied to the integration in the institutional integration process. However, the studies on a specific

[현안분석] The Costs and Benefits of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

At the New Year’s press conference in January 2014, President Park Geun-hye coined the term “unification bonanza” and launched the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation (PCUP) as a follow-up measure to Dresden Initiative. The notion of unification bonanza and a series of steps taken afterward have significant implications since those measures are not just about partial