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...of the 1990s, known as the "Arduous March." The analysis also extends outward, dissecting North Korea's formidable military, its destabilizing nuclear program, its sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities, and its fraught foreign relations with China, the United States, and its estranged sibling, South Korea. Ultimately, this work provides an indispensable guide to understanding the forces of change...
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Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was 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.S. president angrily refers...
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세계에서 가장 고립된 국가 북한은 어떻게 핵무기 보유국이 되었나 핵물리학자가 보고 겪은 북미 핵협상의 결정적 순간들 『핵의 변곡점』(원제: Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program)은 세계적 핵물리학자이자 핵무기 전문가인 시그프리드 헤커(로스앨러모스국립연구소 명예소장)가 수년에 걸쳐 북한 영변의 핵시설을 방문하며 관찰한 사실과 통찰을 모아 엮어낸 북미 핵협상 역사의 복원이다. 헤커는 로스앨러모스국립연구소에서 수십년간 일해온 플루토늄 과학 전문가로 냉전 말기에는 소련의 붕괴가 초래한 핵 위기 완화를 위해 힘썼고, 중국·인도·파키스탄 등의 핵무기 보유국에서 일어날 핵 테러를 방지하기 위한 연구와 활동을 지속적으로 해왔다. 이 책에는 헤커가 2004년...
[학술논문] Gathering Storm or Silver Lining Out of the Clouds? The North Korean Nuclear Issue and the Case for Coercive Diplomacy
...North Korea to decide on and implement the abolition of its nuclear program; and at the same time, the means of punishment used by the U.S. were limited due to the Iraq War, North Korea’s military capability, and the lack of coordination among the multiple coercers. This paper proposes that while the U.S. and its allies prepare a multi-faceted set of threats and incentives to persuade the North that...
[학술논문] Barak Obama and North Korea: A Study in Presidential Transition
...policy of the incoming administration of Barak Obama toward North Korea’s nuclear program as a case-study in presidential transitions. Obama did not give much prominence to North Korea during the campaign, but he clearly framed the talks on the DPRK nuclear question in the broader contexts of promoting international law, strengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and pursuing broad multilateral...
[학위논문] 북한의 핵인식과 정책 변화 동인 연구: 6자회담 이탈 전후 시기를 중심으로
...the Six-Party Talks, and delays in North Korea’s delisting from the U.S. terrorism sponsor list-as well as internal instability stemming from Kim Jong-il’s stroke and leadership succession concerns. Perceiving the collapse of denuclearization efforts, North Korea escalated nuclear development, conducting a second test and unveiling its uranium enrichment program. The third phase(December 2011-March...
[학술논문] The North Korean Nuclear Program: From a Conditional Bargaining Chip to the Ultima Ratio in Deterrence
...remaining members of the Six-Party-Talks that would rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons capabilities in return for normalized relations and economic aid, has long passed. There remains little if any hope in rolling back North Korea's nuclear weapons program and have Pyongyang give up its nuclear arsenal. Over the course of the last decade North Korea's viewpoint of seeing its atomic bomb not as a bargaining...
[학술논문] The Right Approach to Change North Korea: Consistent Pressure as Learned from Chicken Game Theory
... to realize the unchanged zero-sum nature of South-North relations. He demanded that North Korea demonstrate its sincerity for the welfare of its people in return for the assistance and dismantle its nuclear weapons program. The US President, Barack Obama, also quickly realized the true nature of North Korea and joined in President Lee's policy. As a result, a glimpse of hope started to be seen until...