[뉴스] 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 existing relationship...

[학위논문] 김정은 정권의 핵정책 분석, 2011~2021 -북한 지배연합의 선택과 관계국의 대응을 중심으로

...the elite to explain North Korea’s nuclear policy and examined state-level action-reaction dynamics to understand why the negotiations failed to resolve the nuclear issue. The launch of Trump's second administration in 2025 has reignited expectations for renewed North Korea-U.S. negotiations. While it is impossible to predict future developments on the Korean Peninsula, this research may offer some...

[학술논문] Future Warfare Dynamics and Response Strategies on the Korean Peninsula: Insights from the Russia–Ukraine War

Since the inauguration of the Trump administration’s second term in January 2025, a new normal in the international order has taken shape, leading to a level of global security uncertainty greater than at any point since the end of the Cold War. As the Ukraine war has shifted into a prolonged war of attrition lasting over three years, Russia—facing the limits of its war-sustaining capabilities—has...

[학위논문] 보호책임(R2P) 및 군사개입관여의 한반도 적용 문제 분석

...new NK government? I believe it is too early to say 'no' to these questions If we can effectively prepare for unification through analyzing Syrian case, it may lead us to the optimum solution Trump administration insists that they will implement an new isolationism foreign policy, but I think that American foreign policy of engagement to the world issues and military engagement under the multilateralism...

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

...explores 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

...roadmap, 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...

[국내] The Asan Security Quarterly Vol.1 Issue 1 "One Year of Trump 2.0"

...this Asan Security Quarterly issue aims to do instead is gauge how like-minded strategic partners have dealt with the disruptive and transformative foreign and security policy agenda of the Trump administration. In doing so, we hope that policymakers can read this issue and absorb comparative experiences, lessons, and warnings. Too often, U.S. allies tend to be consumed by their dealings with the United...

[국내] 한국의 핵무장론과 비대칭동맹의 딜레마:연루와 방기의 비등가성

...abandonment. This perception has been reinforced by the North’s advancing nuclear capabilities, deepening military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, and alliance skepticism under the Trump administration. Rather than relying on the traditional assumption in asymmetric alliance theory that entrapment and abandonment risks are equivalent, this study adopts the inequivalence hypothesis to reinterpret...

[국내] North Korea’s Missile Provocations: Not just a Gambit but an Imminent Threat

...South Korean government officials just reiterate that the projectiles are “short range” missiles and refuse to confirm whether they are a new type of ballistic missile or not. As usual, the Trump administration’s evaluation of North Korean missiles is inconsistent. On May 24, John Bolton, the White House National Security Advisor, characterized the North Korean weapon tests as short-range ballistic...

[국내] The 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue and Indo-Pacific Security

Utilizing the platform of the 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue, the U.S. under the leadership of the second Trump administration, proclaimed its full reorientation towards the Indo-Pacific region. Primarily, the U.S. government clarified that its intention to pivot to the region lies in countering China’s aspirations for regional hegemony. Simultaneously, while embedding the belief that an objective for such...

[국내] Diplomatic Security Implications of North Korean Troop Deployment to Russia

...participating in multiple battlefields of the Ukraine-Russia War, neither the North Korean Leadership nor the Kremlin officially acknowledged this fact. Nevertheless, the initiation of the second Trump administration prompted dialogues aimed at the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, while Russia achieved a prominent position in the Kursk; both parties disclosed the deployment of North Korean military personnel...