[뉴스] Can America Live with a Nuclear North Korea?
If the United States has decided to live with North Korean nuclear weapons, it should take some actions to reduce the risks of those weapons.
[뉴스] North Korea claims another successful test of its hypersonic glide missile tech
North Korea on Monday claimed to have again tested a missile that could become one of the world’s fastest and most accurate weapons – with the potential to ultimately be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
Kim Jong Un’s regime successfully tested a hypersonic glide vehicle that was fired aloft using solid-fueled engines on Sunday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)...
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...yet less understood, than North Korea. In the global consciousness, it exists as a caricature of goose-stepping soldiers and nuclear ambitions-the "Hermit Kingdom." This book cuts through the curtain of propaganda and misinformation to assemble a comprehensive and nuanced picture of the world's most isolated state. Drawing on the three pillars of North Korean analysis-the vital testimony...
[경제/과학]
...questions based on their experiences or perceptions earned while living in North Korea and organized the data by the final defection year of the respondents so that one can understand the reality of North Korea as experienced by North Korean defectors over time. However, exceptions were made when assessing the North Korean economy and society since Kim Jong Un took power, asking questions of those...
[정치/군사]
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...
[학술논문] Does Political Generation Matter for Foreign Policy? South Korea’s Foreign Policy Changes, 2003 to 2007
...the alliance ties with the United States and North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons, the Roh government sought to redefine relations with the former, while deepening economic and political engagement with the latter to an unprecedented extent. I argue that the rise of what I call the “democratization generation” in Korean politics is the key to understanding why Korea’s...
[학술논문] 존폐위기의 개성공단: 현황과 전망
An ambitious ten-year-long Korean experiment, the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), has now been frustrated by the increased level of inter-Korean conflict attributed to Pyongyang’s rocket launches in April and December 2012 and third nuclear test in February 2013. On April 3, North Korea suddenly blocked the entrance to the KIC while leaving open the exit. On April 8, 2013, shortly after a visit...
[학술논문] A Comparative Study on the inter-Korean Relations and the Cross-Strait Exchanges after the 2000s
... identity’ approach – i.e. Taiwanese nationalism, or separatism. International relations and the role of the United States also cannot be ignored. Whereas in inter-Korean relations, the United States continues to play an important role because of North Korea’s nuclear program, it has become a more peripheral player in Cross-Strait relations.
[학술논문] 6 · 25전쟁기 대통령 트루먼의 전쟁지도 : 제3차 세계대전 방지
...billion dollars during the Korean War and has steadily increased since. However, the Korean War did not end as readily as President Truman had hoped. When the United States forces unexpectedly faced massive military forces of the Communist China, General Douglas MacArthur insisted that the United States bomb China's northern territories with conventional weapons and even nuclear bombs, if necessary....
[학술논문] China’s Status-Quo-Plus Policy toward the Korean Peninsula and Its Implications
...dealing with the North’s nuclear ambitions. And China’s recent expansion of economic influence in terms of trade and investment in the North seems to be contributing to North Korea’s dilapidated economy. But the most important factor is North Korea’s sincerity regarding dismantling its nuclear devices on the diplomatic table, and the question is whether the North will initiate...