[뉴스] Yes, North Korea is preparing for war — in Ukraine and the Middle East
A recent series of erratic moves by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is leading many in Washington to speculate that he is preparing for waron the Korean Peninsula. But there’s another, more plausible explanation for the despot’s behavior — that...
[학술논문] 북한의 핵 미사일 위협에 대한 일본의 군사 외교적 대응
In response to nuclear-armed North Korea, Japan has taken extensive non-nuclear military measures in order to cope with the North Korean threat while being less active in using diplomacy. Analysts estimate that North Korea had possessed 33 to 55 kilograms of plutonium enough for 6 to 13 nuclear devices. Two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 proved that North Korea had successfully produced nuclear devices...
[학술논문] 국방정책 2012 회고와 2013 추진방향
본 연구는 한국의 국방정책 2012년 추진형황을 분석하고 2013년 추진방향을 제시하고 있다. 2012년 한국의 국방은 북한의 김정은 체제 정립과 미사일 발사 등 북한위협과 지역 해양분쟁에 따른 잠재적 위협에 직면하였었다. 남북관계는 군사적 긴장관계를 지속하였으며 일본과도 역사 및 독도 문제로 인해 갈등이 심화되었다. 중국과는 한중수교 20주년을 맞이하여 관계발전을 위한 노력이 지속되었지만 해양 및 북한문제로 인해 갈등관계가 노정되었다. 한미관계는 어느 때보다 긴밀하게 유지되었으며, 미사일 지침의 개정 등 안보현안을 효과적으로 타결하였다. 국방은 국방개혁 2012-2030을 추진하기 위한 노력을 지속하였지만 큰 성과를 얻지 못하였으며, 북한군 병사 노크귀순 사건은 경계태세의 허점을 노출시키기도 하였다. 2013년
[학술논문] The North Korean Nuclear Threat and South Korea’s Identity Politics in 2006
...policy with several domestic variables. In South Korea, inter-Korean relations are deeply linked to domestic politics, because policy toward North Korea includes cultural elements such as identity and norms. South Korea’s response to the North Korean nuclear issue, particularly the Roh administration’s countermeasures to North Korea’s first nuclear test, shows the merits of constructivism...
[학술논문] 1. Addressing the North Korean Nuclear Threat: 2. A Strategic-Pragmatic-Comprehensive Perspective and its Policy Alternatives
The purpose of this paper is to propose the “strategic-pragmatic-comprehensive (SPC)” approach that can facilitate North Korean denuclearization. In the paper, the dangers posed by a nuclear North Korea, the poverty of the non-SPC policy approaches that were pursued by both Obama and Lee administrations, and policy alternatives based on that SPC perspective are discussed.
[학술논문] Contemporary Inter-Korean Relations, Cultural Transformations and Strategic Consequences
...Korea’s national security and defense against a belligerent North Korean state which shares similar beliefs in ethnic homogeneity. North Korea has been politically and ideologically ‘othered’ as a ‘foreign’ Korean state and therefore a threat. The representation of the foreign is intrinsic to South Korean identity and multicultural initiatives are generating competing narratives...