[정치/군사] Nuclear North Korea

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...

[학술논문] ROK–U.S.–Japan “Operational” Security Cooperation for Responding to a Two-Front Crisis

In the context of intensifying U.S.–China strategic competition in the Indo–Pacific, the security of the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait are inextricably linked. A simultaneous two-front crisis in these subregions would pose a grave threat to regional stability, as China and North Korea could coordinate to exploit vulnerabilities in the United States and allied postures—triggering a “strategic...

[학술논문] Building Conditions for Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Prioritizing Countervalue over Counterforce

This article asks how a stable peace can be built on the Korean Peninsula amid persistent DPRK nuclear expansion, an escalatory doctrine, and explicit rejection of denuclearization. First, I assess North Korea’s current and near-term capabilities and plans, and the implications of a dual-capable, increasingly diversified nuclear force for crisis stability. Second, I weigh the assured-retaliation (countervalue)...

[학술논문] 조중연합사(朝中聯合司)가 '조선인민군' 재편성에 미친 영향

...carefully with a deeper analysis in twofold respects. The Sino-North Korean military alliance nowadays is a key factor to understand the current security structure of the north east asia that is symbolized by the North Korean nuclear crisis and Cheonan-warship attack. Moreover, this helps us to prepare for the Contingencies in North Korea. In this sense, the subtle analysis on the above mentioned...

[학술논문] The Limited Influence of the Kim Young-sam Government on U.S. Policy: Causes and Factors

This article examines the Kim Young‐sam government’s policies in terms of the North Korea‐U.S. talks on the first North Korean nuclear crisis. This paper argues that the Kim government (1993‐1998) was unsuccessful in influencing U.S. policy because it tried to take advantage of outdated realist policy tools in the post‐Cold War era. The world order in the post‐Cold War era is different from that of...

[학술논문] 중국의 “책임대국” 외교와 북핵문제

...analyzes China's recognition of and response to the North Korean nuclear issue on the basis of the Chinese “responsible power” diplomacy, and attempts to understand its strategic intent by examining the relationship between the six-party talks and the Northeast Asian security system China is mapping out. Since October 2002 when the second nuclear crisis occurred, China has promoted six-party talks in...

[국내] 러시아-북한-중국 삼각관계'의 전략적 함의: '미국 요인'과 한국에의 시사점

...Korean triangle has strategic significance in North East Asian geopolitics in light of the fact that they have been cooperating, albeit loosely, to deal with key issues such as the North Korean nuclear issue.

[국내] 핵 포기 국가에 대한 국제사회의 경제개발 지원경험이 북한에 주는 시사점

...resolve North Korea’s nuclear crisis, it has remained an ongoing challenge. North Korea’s nuclear crisis is a significant and impending task for the international community, in terms of enhancing security on not only the Korean peninsula but also in Northeast Asia while simultaneously achieving consistent economic development in that region. The crisis has become even more serious once the North withdrew...

[국내] U.S. Contingency Plan for North Korea’s Regime Collapse

.... The U.S. priorities in North Korean contingency will include 1) security and elimination of North Korea’s WMD capabilities including nuclear program and missile system, 2) stabilizing the crisis inside North Korea, 3) alliance management with South Korea and Japan during and after the contingency, 4) preventing conflicts with China, and 5) supporting a reunification of Korea through free markets...

[국내] A Sixties Comeback: Restoring U.S. Nuclear Presence in Northeast Asia

The nuclear balance of power in Northeast Asia is in crisis. North Korea, China, and Russia are using their nuclear arsenals as cover to undermine the regional order. Meanwhile, South Korea and Japan must rely on the promise of U.S. extended nuclear deterrence commitments that can only be called upon in the event of nuclear war and which are otherwise ineffective at stopping the current nuclear arms...

[국내] 북한 군사력 강화 정책의 딜레마

...measures to manage the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula and prevent the spread of the war in the short term due to the deepening security dilemma. In the mid to long term, it is necessary to prepare a response strategy that can neutralize North Korea's strategy. For example, considering the characteristics of the North Korean strategy, which is highly dependent on North orea-China relations, management...