[해외자료] The Devil’s Weapons: What Ordinary North Koreans Think about their Nuclear Program

Despite efforts at high-level diplomacy during the XXIII Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the United States and its allies emerge from these Games with the specter of more North Korea nuclear and intercontinental missile tests in the offing. Experts believe that Pyongyang maybe months away from demonstrating a credible threat to the U.S. homeland.

[현안분석] 북한 ‘새로운 전략무기’의 가능성과 한계 : MIRV, SLBM, SLV를 중심으로

...report aims to reveal the implications and limitations of MIRV, SLBM and SLV, whichare considered as strong candidates for North Korea’s “New Strategic Weapon.” Duringthe 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Korean Worker’s Party, heldin Pyongyang from December 28 to 31, 2019, Kim Jong Un warned the threat of “NewStrategic Weapon...

[학술논문] Choosing a Path to the Elusive Goal of DPRK Denuclearization

...of most first-stage deals that have been proposed. of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs and reduce the threat they pose to their countries and the security of Northeast Asia. Proponents of the much more ambitious effort to maximize pressures against North Korea in order to compel it to give up its nuclear deterrent completely and rapidly criticize such a long-term, incremental approach...

[현안분석] 가치의 구현과 이익의 실현: ‘규범적 유럽’과 북핵 문제

...security threat to Europe posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile program is not very significant, while Europe’s foreign policy identity is based on differentiation from the US, and while sanctions are known to be not very effective tool for inducing desired changes in target countries’ behavior, Europe has been consistent in its pursuit of hawkish policy toward North Korea. Why...

[현안분석] 북한의 핵·미사일 위협과 동북아 국제관계: THAAD 배치의 정치동학

...South Korean government’s decision to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) against North Korean nuclear threat using the theory of alliance dilemma. South Korea needs both the strategic alliance with the US and the economic relations with China. It thus had maintained a strategic ambiguity between the two. However, as the struggle for hegemony between the US and China in...

[현안분석] Will North Korea Join Russia and China in a Combined Military Exercise? A Game Changer for Northeast Asian Security Architecture

Under North Korea nuclear and missile development, trilateral security and military cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the U.S. and Japan seems unavoidable but only security option against North Korea threats. Threat assessments has much focused on existing threats like North Korean nuclear and missiles as well as new technology threats like Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, Drone and Cyber...