[외교안보] The most significant ambassador jobs in Trump’s second term

Donald Trump has announced two of the highest-profile ambassador jobs — but many of the most significant ones are still to come. While several foreign posts are important in any administration because the country is a close U.S. ally or a neighbor to an adversary, some ambassadorial jobs will take on heightened significance in Trump’s second term because of the incoming president’s...

[해외자료] Global Leaders Forum Address by His Excellency President Moon Jae-in

...Excellency Moon Jae-in, President of the Republic of Korea, delivered a Global Leaders Forum address to a Washington D.C. foreign policy audience of more than 250 at CSIS headquarters. This occasion marked several firsts: President Moon's first foreign policy address abroad, his first visit to the United States as president, and his first summit meeting with the Donald J. Trump administration.

[해외자료] Peace in Korea? What You Need to Know about the Koreas Summit and the Trump-Kim Summit

...South Korea, to avoid the collision course that the United States and North Korea appeared to be on until the end of 2017, with 20 ballistic missile tests by North Korea and threats by the Trump administration to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea. The inter-Korean summit, and the upcoming North Korea–U.S. summit, have cooled tensions considerably, but for how long is uncertain...

[해외자료] U.S.-South Korea Cost-Sharing Negotiations Impacting Korean Public Support for U.S. Security Umbrella

...of alliance dissonance. While all negotiations over how much the two allies should pay annually for the non-personnel costs of stationing 28,500 U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula are difficult, this year’s is particularly so because the Trump Administration has called for a more-than-five-fold increase in payments from South Korea ($896 million in 2019 to $5 billion in 2020).

[해외자료] The United States Rejoins UN Human Rights Council: An Important Step to Combat North Korean Human Rights Abuses

...noted that “the Human Rights Council is a flawed body, in need of reform to its agenda, membership, and focus, including its disproportionate focus on Israel,” but he added that the Trump administration’s withdrawal from participation in the council “did nothing to encourage meaningful change” but rather “created a vacuum of U.S. leadership which countries with authoritarian...

[학술논문] Conditions for Achieving Strategic Integration between the U.S. and South Korea

...ways to strengthen the ROK-U.S. alliance under Biden administration, based on the concept of strategic integration. Strategic integration and disintegration between two countries is determined depending on how the great power’s grand strategy and the client ally’s military vulnerability are combined. During the Trump administration, the ROK-U.S. alliance experienced strategic disintegration...

[학술논문] Choosing a Path to the Elusive Goal of DPRK Denuclearization

...there would be a high probability of it pulling out of the deal at a future time of its choosing. This paper reviews the Trump administration’s efforts to achieve North Korean denuclearization, describes what appears to be the North Korea policy of the Biden administration, and analyzes what may emerge as a significant debate about which, if any, incremental approach to denuclearization is most...

[학위논문] 김정은 시기의 핵전략 변화 연구 -대외환경과 김정은의 선택-

...at the same time. In order to achieve the ‘Chinese dream’, China pursued the ‘new type of great power relations’ and the ‘One Belt One Road’ strategy. The Trump administration advocated the keynote of ‘peace through strength’, and in the 2017 US NSS report, China was defined as a revisionist force that was pushing out the United States from the Indo-Pacific...

[현안분석] 러우 전쟁 3년, 북한군 파병의 쟁점과 전망

...Russiadid not decisively impact the progression of the war, Russia has maintained an overalladvantage in the Kursk region since their arrival. With the recent inauguration of the second Trump administration in the United States, discussions of ending the Russia-UkraineWar—which began three years ago—have been gaining momentum. The success of futurenegotiations to end the...

[현안분석] Trump-Kim Bromance 2.0? The Differences between 2018 and 2025

...And another variable was added to this complexity with Trump’s return tothe White House. To forecast Trump’s policy toward North Korea in his second term, it is essential torecognize these changes and consider the administration’s shifting policy priorities. Simplypredicting a reemergence of the Trump-Kim “bromance” or revisiting the negotiation...