[정치/군사] Nuclear North Korea

Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Koreawas first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U...

[현안분석] 2021년 김정은 연설 분석과 전망 및 정책 고려사항

...expected that it will be easy to make a breakthrough in improving relations between South Korea and North Korea for the time being. However, considering several factors, such as the prolonged Corona 19 crisis, the continued fixation of the denuclearization egotiations, and the launch of a new government in South Korea, it is expected that there will be a room for improvement in the situation. Therefore...

[현안분석] 인구절벽 문제와 한국의 자체 핵무장 옵션

...will undermine its efforts to maintain the current national power and growth engine. Thus, the paper first covers pessimism about overall South Korean demographic structure and the expected lack of military manpower as the state's core security problems. Also, the paper argues that the demographic change would be ignite a critical security crisis in the future, explaining about the qualitative and...

[학술논문] 북한정치의 종교적 특성과 ‘인간중심’개념

...responds quickly and actively to security and safety when the nation is in crisis. Such a collective security defense mechanism tends to be strengthened the more powerful it is;and through its policy of antagonizing the world's most powerful U.S.;North Korea has completed its nuclear capabilities that have gathered all its national capabilities. Also;loyalty to the leader will be sanctified and easily...

[현안분석] 안보·경제 딜레마와 북한경제의 새로운 길

...to reflect the situation in which investment in civilian sectors willinevitably decrease more than defense sectors in the face of the deadlock in U.S.-North Korea relations and the economic crisis. However, given that it is unlikely that the U.S.-North Korea relations will make progress within a short period of time, we cannot rule out the possibility that the tactical elements will be stuck...

[학술논문] The DPRK’s Triple Disaster: Failure of Governance, Flooding, and Drought

The citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), already enduring many human rights violations, further suffer because of recurrent natural disasters, which have often led to humanitarian crises. Vulnerability to these disasters has increased as the DPRK regime has continually failed to manage post-disaster situations adequately. This paper examines humanitarian crises in the