[뉴스] Friday Briefing: Will North Korea Attack?

Watching North Korea for signs of lethal military action North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, could take some form of lethal military action against South Korea in the coming months after having shifted his policy to one of open hostility, U.S. officials say.

[학술논문] 「이명박 정부」 대북정책과 지속가능한 남북체육교류협력정책

...the sustainable sports exchange and cooperation between South and North Korea which is possible. Such as, policy development of the sustainable sports exchange and cooperation between South and North Korea . Second, it is necessary to activation and regular base creation a sustainable sports exchange and cooperation between South and North Korea. Such as, legal institutional system construction. Third...

[학술논문] Kidnapping Politics in East Asia

...adversary,North Korea (DPRK), violated the sovereignty of neighboring states. I use a comparison of South Korean and Japanese reactions to political captivity to assess institutional performance in democratic states and ways in which these dynamics are connected to international politics. We see how “captivity narratives”can be differentially constructed and deployed and how policy capture can be achieved...

[학술논문] 中ㆍ美관계에 있어서의 북한 변수

...respective party will escalate the crisis to the level whereby military conflict will be inevitable. Hence, the paper seeks ways to prevent conflicts arising between the U.S. and China over North Korea’s collapse by making policy suggestions based on the finding and readings from the work of those who are supposedly to have some input into or influence over foreign policy decision making process in China.

[학술논문] 동북아 주요 국가의 탈북자 정책 : 재외 탈북자문제와 대량탈북 가능성을 중심으로

...Korea, can precipitate the mass refugee problem, the North Korean regime’s loss of power and control over its citizen lapse can be caused by the large-scale refugee flow in combination with the uprising of the discontented North Korean people. No matter which scenario is more plausible, if the contingency and/or mass defection happen, the consequences will be astounding. Therefore, close policy coordination...

[학술논문] The Limited Influence of the Kim Young-sam Government on U.S. Policy: Causes and Factors

...containment policy toward North Korea and tried to alter U.S. policy by using realist policy tools, such as manipulation and taking a neutralist position, while dispensing with liberal policy tools, such as consultation norms and transnational coalitions. The Kim government’s limited impact on U.S. policy implies that the South Korean government had better make use of liberal policy tools to influence...

[국내] 한국의 핵무장론과 비대칭동맹의 딜레마:연루와 방기의 비등가성

...abandonment risks are equivalent, this study adopts the inequivalence hypothesis to reinterpret the emergence of nuclear armament discourse in South Korea. Theoretically, the study challenges the symmetry assumption in existing alliance theories. From a policy perspective, it suggests that enhancing the credibility of U.S. entrapment (commitment) and reducing the perceived risk of abandonment are critical...

[국내] 한국의 핵무장시 핵심 전력 건설 및 운용방향

...force-building and operational directions premised on the assumption of South Korea’s nuclear armament, thereby deriving strategic preparatory tasks and policy implications for deterrence and response to North Korea and other potential threats. The most critical security challenge facing South Korea is the continued advancement of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and the possibility of its use in contingency...

[국내] The trust-building process and korean unification

...Geun-hye administration’s policy towards North Korea. Trust is a new concept in South Korea’s North Korea policy, and the Trustbuilding Process emerged as a new paradigm for policies on North Korea. The current government has diverged from the pathways of the previous governments. Since the end of the Cold War, South Korea’s economic superiority has been utilized as a major policy leverage against the...

[국내] 러시아-북한-중국 삼각관계'의 전략적 함의: '미국 요인'과 한국에의 시사점

...are entering the age in which the Northern trilateral relations are indispensible to the peaceful unification of the North and South Korea and the diplomacy of coexistence through trust, upon which Park’s administration places special emphasis. The Russo-Sino-North Korea triangle which was established in the 2000’s has become less institutionalised and the interaction among three parties involved...

[국내] The North Korean Contingency Plan: Japanese Policy Outlook and Countermeasures

...United States and China, Japan has not shown direct concern for a contingency situation in North Korea. Under Japan’s so-called “peace constitution” and related laws which have restricted any aggressive military posture toward other countries, Japan has maintained a passive attitude in terms of security policy. Despite the strict restrictions on its military posture under the present constitution, Japan...