[해외자료] Milestones and Momentum: A Banner 2023 for the US-ROK Alliance and the Path Forward

...throughout the year, driven largely by the combination of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s vision for the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) as a “global pivotal state,” and the United States’ clear commitment to extended deterrence, resulting...

[해외자료] 38 North Director Jenny Town Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Regarding Security on the Korean Peninsula

...Victor Cha (Senior Vice President for Asia and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Scott Snyder (Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations) and Jenny Town (Senior Fellow, Stimson Center and Director, 38 North) testified on security challenges on the Korean Peninsula and the importance of the US-ROK alliance before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee...

[해외자료] South Korea’s Surprisingly Successful China Policy

...South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, entered office last year, the odds rose that a frostier bilateral relationship with China might take hold. After all, Yoon on the campaign trail talked tough on China, and conservative South Korean politicians typically deepen the US alliance and are suspicious of Chinese support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). Even...

[해외자료] Mr. and Mrs. Kim Go to Beijing

...com/english/2018-03/28/c_137070598_2.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank" North Korean leader Kim Jong-un traveled with his wife Ri Sol-ju to Beijingto meet Chinese president Xi Jinping. This was Kim Jong-un’s first foreign visit as the head of state and his first visit to China since becoming North Korea’s supreme leader in December 2011. During the 4-day unofficial visit...

[현안분석] 미국의 한반도 확장억제 평가

...denuclearization of North Korea and consult with the U.S. to make those supplementary measures possible rather than being obsessed with a declaratory peace such as the end of war declaration. It would be very hard for the United States to perceive its strategic interests being shared with ROK if the ROK government demonstrated its preference for inter-Korean cooperation than for the ROK-US alliance despite continued...

[현안분석] 동맹 결속변화의 비구조적 외생변수 추적: 중국·북한의 회색국가화 공세와 한미동맹의 디커플링

...cohesion of the ROK-U.S. alliance. The worsening plight of the ROK-U.S. alliance springs from a non-structural exogenous variable, the-gray-state strategic offensive towards alliance decoupling. North Korea and China have taken offensives under the gray-state-oriented strategy while aiming at weakening the cohesion of an alliance in their opponents and then decoupling the alliance. This strategy becomes...

[현안분석] 하노이 북미 정상회담 이후 북중·한중 관계 변화와 한반도 평화체제 구축

... been recovered. However, North Korea's economic dependence on China has risen. South Korea should not only seek China's active role and cooperation by strengthening diplomatic and security cooperation with China, but also bring North Korea back to U.S.- North Korea denuclearization negotiation table by utilizing this restoration of North Korea- China relations. In conclusion, in order to establish...

[학술논문] Conditions for Achieving Strategic Integration between the U.S. and South Korea

... the U.S. stresses out the importance of the alliance cooperation. This suggests a possible swift in Americas alliance strategy to direction of balancing. But despite this outlook, to fortify an level of strategic integration in the ROK-U.S. alliance, the U.S. should take much more active interest in North Korea nuclear problem as well as South Korea must pay much more attention to regional diplomatic-security...

[학위논문] 후견국의 동맹 관리 딜레마 - 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인에 대한 연구 -

본 논문은 후견국으로서 중국의 대북한 동맹 관리를 분석하였고, 중국이 북한 비핵화의 목표를 달성하지 못한 원인을 중국의 낮은 협상력에서 찾았다. 동맹과 핵확산의 이론적 논의를 바탕으로 북중동맹의 사례를 비교 분석함으로써 가설을 검증하는 이론기반 사례연구 방법을 통해 이를 고찰하였다. 동맹 관리와 핵비확산 간의 관계를 다룬 이론에서 얻은 통찰력으로 본 논문은 북한의 대중국 군사적 의존도를 하나의 변수로 놓고, 중국의 대북한 이익 공약의 강도를 또 다른 하나의 변수로 간주하여 그 변수들간 결합이 중국의 대북한 협상력을 결정한다는 분석 틀을 제시하였다. 동맹 관리의 결과는 동맹국 간 상대적 협상력에 따라 결정한다. 이러한 틀 속에서 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인을 설명하고자 했다.