[학술논문] Survivability of North Korea’s Military-First Policy and Prospects for the ROK-US Security Alliance Format
...region include North Korea’s juche ideology of self-reliance, autarkic economic mismanagement, and ever-lasting security/insecurity dilemma. The best-case scenario is to support North Korea’s reform through economic and diplomatic channels rather than to perpetuate the continuation of military confrontation, which forces North Korea to view South Korea as a mortal enemy instead of a source for...
[학술논문] When Authoritarianism Survives: North Korea vs. Libya
The North Korean regime has managed to survive for three generations of leaders without essential changes. The regime’s long survivability has been explained by its intrastate factors, such as Juche ideology, unrestricted power of the leader, reliance on military, dependence of interest groups on the regime, limited liberal reforms, or the degree of country’s isolation from the outside...
[학술논문] 반복(Echoes)에서 선택(Choices)으로: 불가능한 조건 하에서 한반도 냉전해체의 문을 연 지도자들의 선택
... Korea summit meetings. First, I will reveal the myth of North Korean “collapsism” and explain why the North Korean regime has shown exceptional survivability against the prediction of the collapsists. Second, I will explore the motivation of the North Korean regime to develop nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War and the process of completing the development of nuclear weapons...