[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.

[학술논문] The Future of the U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Increasingly Off-Peninsula

...economic, and pressure tools, North Korea remains an existential threat to South Korea and a security challenge to the alliance. Indeed, Pyongyang has stepped up its efforts in recent years to augment and improve its nuclear and missile threats against South Korea, Japan, and the United States. Through missile launches and parades the regime has revealed over a dozen new nuclear-capable missile systems...

[학술논문] Strengthening ROK-U.S.-Japan Cooperation in Response to North Korean Nuclear Threats and Indo-Pacific Security Challenges

...(UJK) trilateral relations and the broader goal of eliminating North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat. Nevertheless, for South Korea, UJK relations remains not only important for addressing North Korean threats, but in providing a major platform for cultivating deeper roots to cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, every effort should be made to strengthen and expand UJK trilateral relations...

[학술논문] The Growing DPRK Nuclear Threat and the U.S.-ROK Response

...paper discusses progress North Korea has made in advancing its nuclear and missile capabilities, examines the shift in DPRK nuclear strategy that these advances have permitted and signaled, addresses key dangers posed by the DPRK’s nuclear and missile programs and the shift in its nuclear strategy, and outlines possible U.S.-ROK responses to the growing North Korean threat, including reinforcing...

[학위논문] 북 김정은 체제의 핵외교 행태 연구 : 핵능력 변천과 대외정책의 상관관계를 중심으로

...In 2010-2015, however, North Korea focused on various nuclear and missile tests to complete nuclearization, mainly using hard-line policies such as pressure and threat in foreign and inter- Korean policies, and the North Korean regime also used combined carrot and stick policy to solidify power in the domestic politics. From 2016 to 2018, when North Korea proclaimed the completion...

[학위논문] 북한의 대남도발 양상과 정전체제의 유용성 연구

...reality that currently became invalidated, and because the agreement shows limitation in regulating military hostilites such as nuclearㆍ missile provocations and in easing military tensions, the 9ㆍ19 military agreement holds legitimacy that is needed in establishing trust between the North and the South. However, the 9ㆍ19 military agreement, unlike the Korean Armistice Agreement, is not an international...