[학술논문] ROK–U.S.–Japan “Operational” Security Cooperation for Responding to a Two-Front Crisis

...security cooperation without formal integration of theaters. This strategy focuses on diplomatic coordination to institutionalize a shared threat perception of a potential two-front crisis, conducting joint exercises tailored to simultaneous contingencies with a view to enhancing trilateral interoperability, and expanding multi-domain cooperation—particularly in nuclear, cyber, and space domains—to...

[학술논문] 중국의 동북지역개발과 한중 협력 구상

This paper is the first step that will provide a total and long term project of Korea’s seeking cooperation space toward China. For these points, it analyzes China’s projects and growing possibilities about North-Eastern regional development, and influences to the Korean Peninsula. It reaches the result that China’s North-Eastern regional development plan will offer Korea challenges as well as opportunities...

[학술논문] From a Buffer Zone to a Strategic Burden: Evolving Sino-North Korea Relations during Hu Jintao Era

...threatening peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, the more China would positively think over North Korea’s contingency intensifying cooperation with the United States. In such transition,the stronger the rising great power thinkers, the less the diplomatic space for North Korea exists. North Korea would stop being a buffer zone but a strategic burden in their perspective, transforming China’s relationship...

[학술논문] 동아시아와 책임의 사회인문학-1 ― 자기 성찰로서의 동아시아론 ―

...“response,” which means to react to a certain call in a particular way. An introspective or critical East Asia discourse discussed by the Changbi circle has always been reminded of characteristic space of Korea since the end of the Cold War to accomodate the painful modern and current history of East Asia, and developed the discussion to form the East Asian community. The idea that the people on...

[학술논문] 두만강 과경권역(跨境圈域)의 ‘개발’과 조선족의 이동성― 월경적 사회자본과 복수의 경계넘기/이웃하기

...border-crossing since the border(s) became porous. Rather than reducing all the changes to the government policy, the cultural contestation in everyday life of Korean-Chinese in the changing urban space is highlighted. Moreover, the everyday practices and tactics by Korean-Chinese are investigated through the concepts of neighboring and social capital. The research has several implications. First...

[해외] DPRK and Russian Collaboration in Cyberspace as a Driver for UK-ROK Cyber Cooperation

...meeting will seek to reaffirm their commitment to the UK-ROK Strategic Cyber Partnership and enhance cooperation between the two countries on cyber security issues. One decisive question, however, remains: what does impactful collaboration look like when partners confront different adversaries? Can cooperation be effective if partners do not prioritise the same threat actor? Evidence of growing alignment...

[해외] A Closer Look at the Yelabuga UAV Factory

...associated facility area at the Yelabuga SEZ has expanded from two buildings under construction to a 17-facility complex comprising up to 116 buildings, encompassing over 2,820,000 square meters of space (2,82 km2), and 67 finished housing units that could house approximately 20,000 workers. Our analysis shows that approximately 15% of the entire Yelabuga SEZ’s facilities are now likely involved in...

[국내] KDI 북한경제리뷰 2025년 12월

...infrastructure―including new bridge construction and the modernization of railways and ports―that point to the emergence of a restructured economic space in the Russian Far East. These developments highlight a dual reality in which closer North KoreaRussia cooperation adds constraints to the regional security environment while also generating geoeconomic opportunities linked to the Arctic shipping route and...

[해외] North Korea Revised its Space Law to Permit Military Use

...revised its Space Development Law (우주개발법) in 2022 to allow for use of space for national defense purposes. Specifically, it removed sentences that previously committed to only peaceful uses of space and opposed the militarization of space and now threatens countermeasures on countries that attempt “unfriendly acts” on its space program. It expands the scope of international cooperation and codifies...

[국내] 김정은 시기 북한의 우주 능력 평가 및 시사점

...Korea’s space capabilities and space assets during the Kim Jong-un era and draw implications. North Korea has secured various launch vehicle technologies needed for long-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, ostensibly for the peaceful use of space development. In addition, Kim Jong-un laid the foundation for space development through the ‘Space Development Act’, ‘National Space Development...