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...관한 것으로, 한국 성인 1,200명을 대상으로 설문조사 연구를 진행했다. 주목할 만한 발견은 미국 민주주의의 후퇴가 확장억제의 신뢰성 저하와 큰 상관관계를 가진다는 점이다. 그렇다면 우리는 과연 미국 민주주의의 회복탄력성을 믿어도 될까?
셋째, 7월 15일 「동아시아에서 떠오르는 이중 핵 위협(A Rising Nuclear Double Threat in East Asia)」이라는 워게임 보고서가 국내 언론을 통해 기사화되었다. 이 보고서는 두 가지 상황을 상정했다. 하나는 북한의 서해 도발이 확전되면서 북한이 전술핵무기를 사용했을 때이고, 다른 하나는 중국의 대만침공 시점에 북한이 전술핵무기를 사용했을 때이다. 보고서는 두 가지 상황 모두에서 핵전쟁을 우려한 미국이 북한에 핵보복을...
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... U.S. president angrily refers to Kim Jong-un as “Rocket Man,” Nuclear North Korea remains 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 STRATEGY AND THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC POLITICS
Pyongyang’s nuclear strategy has been significantly shaped by the perceived U.S. nuclear threat since the early 1950s, portending a quest for a self-reliant existential nuclear deterrent for the DPRK. This article tracks and explains how Washington’s nuclear threat cast a long shadow that underpins the evolution of North Korea’s nuclear thinking and strategy over the years. North...
[학술논문] Transformation of Korea-U.S. Alliance and North Korean Threat: A South Korean Public Perspective
...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 the ROK-U.S. alliance are strongly associated with their perceptions of North Korea’s military threat and development of nuclear capabilities. Alliance supporters...
[학술논문] THREAT TO THE FAMILY REVOLUTION IN NORTH KOREA: READING THE INDIVIDUAL IN PAEK NAMRYONG’S FRIEND
...issue of divorce into the narrative, but also because Paek creatively depicts the raw human nature and emotions through the characters. While the narrative attempts to maintain the harmony of the nuclear family as the Party desires, Paek leaves his readers in the chaotic world of unresolved marital problems. Paek Namryong’s Pŏt is one of the few novels in contemporary North Korean literature...
[학술논문] Nuclear Proliferation: Reassessing the Threat to Global Security
...against these states and points out their limitations. An assessment of the threat posed by such small nuclear arsenals leads to the conclusion that the threat or the use of military force is not an effective or advisable instrument of counterproliferation, but that instead traditional diplomatic tools of international law, sanctions, and deterrence are more appropriate to containing this threat.
[학술논문] US Policy Toward Rogue States: Comparing the Bush Administration’s Policy Toward Iraq and North Korea
The George W. Bush administration resorted to war to respond to the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, whereas it virtually ruled out the use of force to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue. By utilizing various strands of realist international relations theories, we trace motivations behind the administration’s divergent foreign-policy choices toward rogue states. That the United...