[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] 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...

[학술논문] Enhancing Allied Deterrence against North Korea’s Nuclear Growing Arsenal

North Korea’s nuclear, missile, and conventional forces are a formidable threat to the United States and its allies in northeast Asia. Pyongyang’s history of provocation and intimidation is a consistent indicator of the regime’s intent to achieve its political objectives through the threat of execution of force. Greater North Korean nuclear capabilities could undermine the effectiveness...

[현안분석] 한미 확장억제 태세 평가 및 발전 방향

... Integration (CNI) Plan.” However, differences in threat perceptions between the U.S., which is focused on strengthening deterrence against the growing nuclear capabilities of China and Russia and implementing trilateral deterrence (U.S.-China-Russia), and South Korea, which is concentrated on North Korean denuclearization, may create tensions in the implementation of integrated extended deterrence...