[학술논문] North Korea;Apparel Production Networks and UN Sanctions: Resilience through Informality

...of apparel on the basis of consignment-based processing arrangements. Official trade data shows a sharp drop in North Korean exports of clothing since the sectoral ban in 2017. There is evidence to suggest;however;that exports have continued on a more informal and clandestine basis. North Korea’s integration into apparel production networks has also taken the form of the dispatch of workers to...

[현안분석] Breakdown in China-North Korea Relations: Caused Not by the Third Nuclear Test but by Failed Economic Cooperation

Many have argued that the Sino- North Korean relationship deteriorated due to the latter’s defiant act of not giving face to the former by conducting a series of nuclear tests and China’s continuous embrace of successive UN resolutions against the North, not to mention China adopting its own sanctions measures. However, this article argues that the rift already had begun when the negotiations...

[현안분석] 북한의 핵·미사일 위협과 동북아 국제관계: THAAD 배치의 정치동학

...one or the other. This situation no longer allowed South Korea’s ‘diplomacy of suspended thinking,’ which was an outcome of strategic ambiguity. South Korean government’s decision to deploy THAAD is the result of over-concern with the Sino-US relations in the midst of increasing North Korean nuclear threat and consequently has led to confusion over the issue at stake.

[현안분석] 동상이몽: 한국전쟁 시기 중국과 북한의 동맹관계 - 한국전쟁 정전 70주년을 맞아

...“external threat.” As such, the Chinese- Korean alliance fared as “bedfellows at oddst” The Chinese intervention in the Korean War rescued the Kim Il-sung regime, but the wartime partnership also caused tremendous grievances and suspicions on the Korean part. As soon as the Korean Armistice was established in 1953, the Sino- Korean relationship turned cold. This historical episode...

[학술논문] Uncertain Prospects for Engagement with the DPRK

...competitive state of Sino-American relations, the Biden administration should continue to press China to use its influence in Pyongyang to bring the North Koreans to the negotiating table. It should also do what it can to promote stronger enforcement of existing U.N. sanctions, maintain U.S.-ROK solidarity in the face of DPRK efforts to split the allies, and demonstrate that the North’s refusal to...