[학술논문] Security Challenges and Policy Dilemmas of South Korea in 2012
...,there remains a high possibility of recurrence of a crisis situation on the Korean peninsula due to accumulated internal conflicts and the unproven leadership of the North’s new leader. Concerning the North’s nuclear program, it is difficult to expect it will be settled in the way intended at the time of launching the Six-Party Talks. Under such circumstances, the international community’s...
[학술논문] Organizing International Security in Northeast Asia: Hegemony, Concert of Powers, and Collective Security
Compared with the first North Korean nuclear crisis in the mid-1990s, the second North Korean nuclear crisis of the early 2000s reveals very different features. The second crisis led to dialogues on how to manage a regional security issue. Moreover, the crisis underwent three diverse phases that can be used to test the assumptions behind three models of security studies: hegemony, concert of powers...
[학술논문] North Korea and the Use of Force in International Law
Although states in Northeast Asia have experienced a long period of prosperity and peace, the Korean peninsula appeared to be on the brink of war in 2013. In addition to the 2013 crisis, there is growing concern about the human rights situation inside North Korea and the collapse of the North Korean state, which may also lead to outside military intervention. This article examines the various legal...
[학술논문] Leadership and Multilateralism in the Recent North Korean Crisis
...conflict to cooperation. Northeast Asians rely far more on military alliances than on multilateral regimes for national defense. The current North Korea question emerges new threatening the Northeast Asian security. Concerning finding ways for the solution for the North Korean nuclear crisis, scholars tend to focus more on systemic or structural variables or some political reasons. In light of the fact...
[학술논문] 북한의 여성고등교육과 남북한 통합과제
...are being marginalized in the heavy industries- and military-centric political and economic policies. As the national patriarchal system works as the power hierarchy even in the family, women are experiencing the limitations of their roles as an assistant. With the deepening economic crisis in North Korea, women are forced to take more responsibility in the family livelihood through private economic...