[학술논문] Kim Jong Un’s Military Provocation Strategy and Its Adjustment Potential under Changing Strategic Environments
...becoming more refined and selectively adjustable, with some factors suggesting conditional room for de-escalation. Based on these findings, South Korea’s policy should shift from reactive responses to shaping structural conditions that influence North Korea’s strategic choices. Priorities include denying provocation legitimacy, minimizing political triggers, offering conditional incentives,...
[학술논문] The Roh Tae-woo Administration’s Nordpolitik and Its Diplomatic Intervention in North Korea-Japan Relations
This article examines the role of the South Korean government in the diplomatic normalization process between North Korea and Japan during the early 1990s, with a particular focus on the Roh Tae-woo administration’s Nordpolitik. While initially supportive of cross-recognition and improved North Korea– Japan ties as part of Nordpolitik, South Korea gradually shifted to a more cautious and...
[학술논문] Dilemma of South Korea’s Trust Diplomacy and Unification Policy
...Park’s trust diplomacy is met with strong suspicion from Pyongyang who criticized South Korea’s unification as a plot to instigate a regime change, if not collapse, in the North. As the tension and mistrust remains high on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea needs to make it clear that the policy priority is to ensure peace and stability between the two Koreas. At the same time, South Korea needs...
[학술논문] The U.S.-ROK Alliance in Coping with North Korea’s Nuclear Threat
...a non-nuclear power, South Korea faces difficulty indeveloping effective countermeasures against the nuclear threat from the North. Although the United States has confirmed its commitment to defending SouthKorea, Seoul cannot dispel its own anxiety of a potential peril of nuclear attackfrom the North. This paper investigates what feasible policy options are availableto the U.S.-ROK alliance in the...
[학술논문] The Chinese Civil War and Sino-North Korea Relations, 1945–50
... to alleviate security risks, China continued to oppose North Korea’s pending attack on South Korea. In conclusion, China’s basic attitude towards Korean Peninsula was to prevent a conflict between its own realistic and ideological interests; this attitude became the basis for the policy of the “stabilization of the Korean peninsula” that China implemented following its reform...