[해외자료] South Korea as a Nuclear State: Trade-offs and Choices

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[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.

[정치/군사] Nuclear North Korea

... U.S. president angrily refers to Kim Jong-un as “Rocket Man,” Nuclear North Korearemains an essential guide to the difficult choices we face. Coming from different perspectives—Kang believes the threat posed by Pyongyang has been inflated and endorses a more open approach, while Cha is more skeptical and advocates harsher measures, though both...

[학술논문] North Korea’s Nuclear Threat and the Strategic Response by the ROK-US Alliance

...Pyongyang. Concurrently, South Korea needs to continue to strengthen its own domestic capabilities, including considering the potential benefits and drawbacks of developing its own nuclear weapons. Given the recent political instability in the United States, Seoul needs to consider the best way to balance the ROK-US alliance with its own capabilities to address North Korea’s nuclear threat.

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

...announced additional weapons that is developing, including a new generation of smaller tactical nuclear weapons for battlefield use. In September 2022, it announced a new nuclear doctrine which lowered the threshold for its use of nuclear weapons. To address the growing nuclear, missile, and conventional force threat, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan resumed combined military exercises after a four-year hiatus...

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

...enhanced cooperation are as ripe as ever, several challenges still loom ahead regarding U.S.-Japan-Korea (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...

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

...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 the U.S. extended nuclear deterrent.

[현안분석] The Costs and Benefits of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

...current divided state has served as a hindrance in the political and social realms in the South Korean society. Acute military confrontations on the Korean Peninsula, including the North's nuclear threat have made people of both Koreas carry the fear for war with them all the time and served as a main reason for the so-called Korean discount the notion that international investors undervalue the...