[해외자료] Manpo Unha Factory Part 1: A Missing Piece in North Korea’s Nuclear Puzzle

...enriched uranium (HEU) at Yongbyon. Aside from supporting the nuclear program, the Manpo Unha Factory has reportedly occupied a significant position in the research and production of liquid rocket fuel and chemical weapons at various times. The importance of the Manpo Unha Factory to North Korea’s nuclear, chemical, and ballistic missile programs is indicated by its ongoing...

[해외자료] Manpo Unha Factory Part 1: A Missing Piece in North Korea’s Nuclear Puzzle

...enriched uranium (HEU) at Yongbyon. Aside from supporting the nuclear program, the Manpo Unha Factory has reportedly occupied a significant position in the research and production of liquid rocket fuel and chemical weapons at various times. The importance of the Manpo Unha Factory to North Korea’s nuclear, chemical, and ballistic missile programs is indicated by its ongoing...

[해외자료] The Markets: Private Economy and Capitalism in North Korea?

The growth of markets is the single most significant socioeconomic development to occur in North Korea over the last 20 years. An understanding of this change is critical for the formulation of North Korea policy, but the underlying issues have been relatively understudied in comparison to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and prospects for denuclearization.

[해외자료] Negative Security Assurance and Nuclear Diplomacy: Implications for the Complete Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

...elimination of its nuclear program, there has been no clear and consistent understanding of what “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” (“CDKP”) actually means. Someinterpretit as the unilateral disarmament of North Korea, entailing the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons, related facilities...

[해외자료] North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Center: Plutonium Production Continues Despite Heavy Rains

Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center from July 5, 2022 indicates that despite heavy rains over the past several weeks, the 5 MWe Reactor continues to produce plutonium for the country’s nuclear weapons program. Moreover, smoke is observed emitting from the Thermal (Steam) Plant at the Radiochemical Laboratory, which may signal early...

[학술논문] China’s Policy Towards North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program: From A Free Rider To A Controller?

This study analyses China’s policy towards North Korea’s nuclear weapons program by using the concepts of free rider, mediator, controller, and vetoer. Most scholars have argued that China has played a more and more important role in controlling North Korea’s nuclear problem. However, I argue that China’s policy towards North Korea has never changed; it has continued acting...

[학위논문] 韓半島 平和體制 構築에 관한 硏究: 北核解決과 多者協力을 中心으로

...relations during the past decades and there are still many obstacles and challenges to establishing an enduring peace on the Peninsula. Moreover, since the emergence of North Korea's nuclear weapons development program in past years, peace on the Peninsula has become measurably more precarious. This study looks into the causes and challenges that undermine peace on the Peninsula and tries to...

[학위논문] 대북방송의 정체성 변화와 프로그램 편성 연구

...signing of the South-North Basic Agreement, and the establishment of South Korea-China diplomatic ties. However, inter-Korean relations soured following the 1993 crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the 1994 death of former North Korean President Kim Il-sung. During this period Radio Liberty strengthened news and economic programs like Germany's DLF. In addition, programs on human...

[학위논문] 北韓의 先軍軍事戰略에 관한 硏究

...deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads and by increasing mass production of nuclear weapons to achieve a "powerful and prosperous country" objective by 2012. And if succession of power to the next leader Kim Jung Eun does not go smooth in a stable form, there is a possibility of military adventures such as additional nuclear experiment and local provocation around the...

[학위논문] Between Entrapment and Proliferation : Alliance Management of the US and China over Two Koreas' Nuclear Weapons Programs

...보고 핵확산의 위험을 높게 인식했다. 미국은 핵확산을 회피하기 위해 연루의 위험을 감수했고, 한국은 핵개발을 종료했다. 이와 대조적으로 1993년부터 2009년까지 중국은 핵확산보다 연루를 더 두려워했기 때문에 북한에 대한 공약을 감소했다. 중국은 북한 체제 붕괴 및 대규모 난민 유입 가능성을 보고 연루의 위험을 높게 인식했다. 중국은 연루를 회피하기 위해 낮은 수준의 공약을 유지했고, 결과적으로 북한은 핵실험을 감행하고 핵협상으로부터 철수했다. 이러한 연구 결과는 연루와 핵확산의 위험을 구별함으로써 안보 공약에 대한 지식을 확장하는데 기여하며, 핵 제지( nuclear restraint)를 위한 적극적 안전보장(positive security assurance)의 역할을 강조한다.