[학술논문] Security Challenges and Policy Dilemmas of South Korea in 2012
...unproven leadership of the North’s new leader. Concerning the North’s nuclear program, it is difficult to expect it will be settled in the way intended at the time of launching the Six-Party Talks. Under such circumstances, the international community’s interest is focused on what impact the new defense strategy adopted by the United States,including the planned cuts in the U.S. defense...
[학술논문] Organizing International Security in Northeast Asia: Hegemony, Concert of Powers, and Collective Security
Compared with the first North Korean nuclear crisis in the mid-1990s, the second North Korean nuclear crisis of the early 2000s reveals very different features. The second crisis led to dialogues on how to manage a regional security issue. Moreover, the crisis underwent three diverse phases that can be used to test the assumptions behind three models of security studies: hegemony, concert of powers
[학술논문] Leadership and Multilateralism in the Recent North Korean Crisis
...historical waves, generally from confrontation to cooperation. By actively utilizing persuasively communicating leadership and empathetic cooperation, President Park will be able to make huge contributions to the reopening of Six-Party Talks and inter-Korean summit. This change of leadership performance must start with de-securitizing the current crisis-ridden issues of unification and regional peace.
[학술논문] The Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula and Directions to Resolve North Korea’s Nuclear Issues
... Based on these three factors, a three-step approach to build trust in resolving North Korea’s nuclear issues with the international community has been developed. Before restarting the Six Party Talks to denuclearize North Korea, North Korea should show a positive attitude toward denuclearization including declaration of its will to denuclearize by setting a moratorium on its existing nuclear...
[학술논문] North Korea’s Perception of Multilateralism
As scholars and security specialists continue to call for a regional multilateral security framework for Northeast Asia, advocates of such a framework must contemplate the participation of the region’s most incorrigible actor, North Korea. However, one crucial question remains unanswered in the discourse: How does North Korea perceive multilateralism? To glean a better understanding I examine