[학술논문] The Park Geun-hye Government’s Role in a Needed New Strategy toward North Korea
This paper places President Park Geun-hye’s policy of building trust with North Korea in the difficult context of North Korea’s threats against South Korea and the United States, and the prospect that North Korea soon will produce nuclear warheads for its Nodong missiles. Nuclear warheads on the Nodongs will give North Korea a new instrument to pursue provocative acts against South Korea...
[학술논문] Reciprocity in South Korean Security Policy Vis-à-vis North Korea and the United States
...Diffuse reciprocity shaped Korean security policy starting with President Kim Dae-jung’s Sunshine Policy. The Lee Myung-bak government’s hard-line approach increased military tension and economic anxiety on the peninsula. The new South Korean government under Park Geun-hye should devise achievable policy measures rather than place excessive pressure or unrealistic demands on North Korea.
[학술논문] The Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula: A Paradigm Shift in Seoul’s North Korea Policy
The Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula can be seen as a shift in the North Korea policy paradigm. As to the North Korea policies in previous governments, discussions were mainly about policy measures, which included military force, negotiations, sanctions and strategic patience. However, the Trust-building Process emphasizes that it is upon trust where policy measures can have more stable
[학술논문] 격동의 동아시아: 박근혜 정부 대외정책의 과제
...attack both Seoul and Washington, the Park Geun-Hye Administration faces tough challenges in managing peace and stability in and around the Korean Peninsula. China’s willingness to actively implement the newly adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2087 is an important factor to slow down, if it cannot stop, the North Korean nuclear program, but the ROK government itself also should recall how consistent...
[학술논문] The Park Geun-hye Administration’s Unification Policy: Issues and Challenges
President Park Geun-hye popularized the notion of a unification bonanza during the 2014 New Year’s press conference. Visiting Dresden Germany on March 28, 2014, President Park gave a speech dubbed the Dresden Initiative detailing specifics of her unification policy that attempted to restore trust between South and North Korea. The so-called Trust-Building Process on the Korean peninsula has...