[학위논문] North Korea as a revisionist state : leaders' political psychology of nuclear provocations

...geopolitical environment and relative power distribution in Northeast Asia in explaining and predicting its foreign policy behavior, this research further explores the intervening variables of leader psychology and national identity perceptions to see how the external operating environment has been perceived and translated into nuclear provocations. Researches on the regime’s foreign policy making...

[학위논문] The Persistence of US CVID Policy toward the DPRK : The Perceptual Spiral

...valid, cannot fully account for the long-term costs that chip away at the logic of maintaining CVID. Residing at the nexus between critical constructivism, Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), and political psychology, this thesis argues that the longstanding debate over the US’s foreign policy toward the DPRK has largely been driven by two beliefs about North Korea’s identity: North Korea as...