[학술논문] Europe and North Korea: Competing Security and Humanitarian Impulses
...supporter of a new South Korean engagement policy toward the North. However, given Europe’s present financial crisis, it may also be diverted from playing too forthright a role in such a distant region. Rather, the EU and European states are likely to stake their approach to North Korea on the basis of both South Korean and United States policy. Cleavages in approaches to North Korea need to be minimized...
[학술논문] North Korea’s Instrumentalization of Diplomacy: Passing Through the “Danger Zone” of its Nuclear Weapons Program
...is argued that until recently Pyongyang has been using diplomacy to deflect threats of coercion or possibly preemption from its nuclear weapons program. After the decision was made to acquire nuclear weapons capability,Pyongyang decided to use the process of nuclear crisis diplomacy that unfolded in the early 1990s in ways that would allow it to weather any repercussions and counter any efforts of...
[학술논문] Russian Influence on North Korea: Views of Former South Korean Ambassadors to Russia
...the North was signed. Moreover, the first trip for a Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, to North Korea was made in 2000. Third, since the beginning of the second North Korean nuclear crisis in 2002, Russia became an active participant in the Six-Party Talks. Russia realized that a balanced diplomacy toward the two Koreas works better for the interests of Russia rather than the pro-South Korean stance...
[학술논문] Inter-Korean trade and the 2002 nuclear crisis: Influence and Effect
...behavior by focusing on South Korean traders. It will conclude that substantial change of actors and dynamics that framed inter-Korean relations after the first-ever summit talks in 2000 enabled the traders to continue to engage North Korea even under the nuclear crisis. In terms of what actually motivated South Korean traders in these transactions, it will argue that South Korean domestic economic needs...
[학술논문] Restarting the Six-Party Talks: Russia’s Dilemmas and Current Perspectives
...produced great anxiety in Russia over the future of the Korean peninsula. Indeed, in September 2010, even before the attack on Yeonpyeong and the announcement of a uranium enrichment facility, Moscow’s representative to the sixparty talks stated that Korea was on the brink of war. This anxiety reflects that perhaps Russia, of the external non-Korean members of the six-party process, has the most to...