[학술논문] From a Buffer Zone to a Strategic Burden: Evolving Sino-North Korea Relations during Hu Jintao Era
...preventing North Korea from getting close to the United States. However, it is noteworthy that even in China, there exist various groups of strategic thinking in international relations on China’s roles in North Korean issues. North Korea’s incessant provocations have effects on mobilizing the Developing Country Diplomacy School as well as the Rising Great Power Diplomacy School against North Korea...
[학술논문] NORTH KOREA’S BRINKMANSHIP AND THE TASK TO SOLVE THE “NUCLEAR DILEMMA”
...the nuclear dilemma: Technically, North Korea made advances in nuclear development as the talks progressed,and domestically the prolonged talks made it difficult if not impossible for the North Korean regime to move sequentially from the resolution of nuclear issues to domestic reforms for survival. Second, the Six Party Talks are not an effective format for resolving North Korean nuclear issues due...
[학술논문] The North-South Korean Basic Agreement of 1992 and Russia-North Korea Relations
...for the inter-Korean dialogue should be elaborated: Two countries (until the unification) – one system as a vital prerequisite for any kind of progress. Second, Medvedev’s policy towards North Korea seems to be tougher than it was before. Medvedev clearly expressed his vision that “nuclear North Korea is absolutely unacceptable” after the North Korean nuclear test in 2009....
[학술논문] Transformation of Korea-U.S. Alliance and North Korean Threat: A South Korean Public Perspective
...affects the North Korean issues specifically are to be examined. To explore the South Korean’s appreciation of the ROK-U.S. alliance and its relations to their attitudes toward North Korean nuclear issues, this study examines survey data conducted by the East Asia Institute (hereafter EAI) in Korea in June 2008. The statistical analysis of the polling data shows that positive South Korean views of...
[학술논문] Stalemate and Beyond: The North Korean Nuclear Impasse and Its Future
...positions. Meanwhile, domestic political factors in other would-be Six-Party participants during 2012 – including leadership succession issues in almost all the other parties –are likely, on the whole, to encourage attitudes less favorable to resumed nuclear negotiating. Yet this impasse has not stopped the East Asian region from continuing its rapid course of politico-economic change and development...