[학술논문] North Korea’s South Korea Policy: An Evaluation of Determining Variables and Prospects for 2012
... strategies toward South Korea, North Korea will need to build tensions for internal consolidation,closing the door on the South’s North Korea policy. With upcoming presidential elections both in South Korea and the U.S. overlapping for the first time in 20 years, North Korea will also exert its utmost efforts to foment negative public sentiment in the South toward the existing policy and to...
[학술논문] North-South Korea Relations under the Lee Myung-bak Administration: The North’s Provocations and the South’s Principled Response
Since the Lee Myung-bak administration came to office, the deterioration of the North-South Korea relationship and heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula are the direct consequence and responsibility of North Korea and its provocations. North Korea has chosen confrontation with the South, dictated by its own internal interests, skewed perceptions and the desire to bully the South into concessions...
[학술논문] South Korea’s Tough Stance towards the North - Why it has to continue -
...open-door policy. Facing with Korea’s new policy, Pyongyang regime has consistently challenged against Lee’s new North Korean policy with a series of provocations and threats. But Korea’s principles North Korean policy has produced substantial outcomes thus far in terms of North Korean domestic changes. Due to its chronic economic plight, the North has stopped its ration system,...
[학술논문] China’s Position on North Korea’s Provocations
... Korea as a geopolitically vital buffer zone to avoid direct confrontation with the U.S. China prefers peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, keeping a military balance between South and North Korea, and avoiding any war that could involve China and the U.S. in a major military conflict. This article aims to understand China’s position toward and role in a series of North Korean military...
[학위논문] 北韓의 先軍軍事戰略에 관한 硏究
...the need to develop new military strategies. Second, is the limits of conventional armed forces. As North Korea's deteriorated equipment are relatively inapt in quality or management perspective for modern warfares, in addition to the fact that North Korea is losing in arms race with South Korea, North Korea needed to develop a strategy to keep its military superiority over South...