[학술논문] From a Buffer Zone to a Strategic Burden: Evolving Sino-North Korea Relations during Hu Jintao Era
...its alliance with North Korea, seek to weaken the South KoreaU.S. alliance, and induce South Korea to cooperate with China, while preventing North Korea from getting close to the United States. However, it is noteworthy that even in China, there exist various groups of strategic thinking in international relations on China’s roles in North Korean issues. North Korea’s incessant provocations...
[학술논문] NORTH KOREAN STRATEGIES IN THE ASYMMETRIC NUCLEAR CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES
...accounting for North Korea’s nuclear strategies. Contrary to conventional wisdom, North Korea has been engaged in balancing acts against the United States, employing internal balancing,soft balancing, and omnibalancing strategies, while deviating from bandwagoning, the dominant strategy of small states. The present analysis of the North Korean case also demonstrates that a state’s behavior is...
[학술논문] NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR STRATEGY AND THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC POLITICS
Pyongyang’s nuclear strategy has been significantly shaped by the perceived U.S. nuclear threat since the early 1950s, portending a quest for a self-reliant existential nuclear deterrent for the DPRK. This article tracks and explains how Washington’s nuclear threat cast a long shadow that underpins the evolution of North Korea’s nuclear thinking and strategy over the years. North Korea’s nuclear...
[학술논문] Transformation of Korea-U.S. Alliance and North Korean Threat: A South Korean Public Perspective
...bilateral cooperation in general, and how it affects the North Korean issues specifically are to be examined. To explore the South Korean’s appreciation of the ROK-U.S. alliance and its relations to their attitudes toward North Korean nuclear issues, this study examines survey data conducted by the East Asia Institute (hereafter EAI) in Korea in June 2008. The statistical analysis of the polling...
[학술논문] 전두환·노태우 정권과 한미관계 ― 광주항쟁에서 6월항쟁을 거쳐 6공화국 등장까지
...by the U. S. during this period. There has been wide spread suspicion in South Korea over the U. S. position taken during 12․12 mutiny in 1979 and Kwangju massacre in May 1980. Through declassified U. S. governmental documents, American News Papers and the memoirs of former U. S. ambassador and U. S. military commander in South Korea, this paper compares the selectivity of the U. S.’s mode of...