[뉴스] The most significant ambassador jobs in Trump’s second term
...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 with — or comments about — the country.
[뉴스] North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through IT Jobs Companies are unknowingly hiring North Koreans for hundreds of low-level jobs, giving Pyongyang access to cash and IP
WASHINGTON—When cybersecurity company KnowBe4 was filling a remote IT job in July, it hired a highly skilled applicant who gave his name as Kyle and spoke accented English. He asked the company to ship his company laptop to an address in Washington state.
[뉴스] The ‘Axis of Evil’ Is Overhyped
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in July, longtime U.S. intelligence official John McLaughlin described the threat posed by China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as “the distinguishing characteristic of our world right now.” McLaughlin, the former acting director of the CIA, warned that the United States’ adversaries had “formed a group” and were increasingly cooperating...
[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.
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...때이고, 다른 하나는 중국의 대만침공 시점에 북한이 전술핵무기를 사용했을 때이다. 보고서는 두 가지 상황 모두에서 핵전쟁을 우려한 미국이 북한에 핵보복을 하지 않는다고 결론을 내렸다. 곧이어 주한미군을 1만 명 수준으로 감축해야 한다고 주장하는 「미국의 이익에 부합하는 글로벌 군사 태세(Aligning Global Military Posture with U.S. interests)」라는 보고서가 기사화되었다. 이 보고서의 핵심은 대만 유사시 주한미군이 신속히 투입될 수 있어야 하며, 중국과 북한의 선제타격에 노출되지 않도록 주한미군을 감축해서 일본이나 괌으로 재배치해야 한다는 것이다. 그런데 보고서 작성자 중 한 명은 2월 25일 Foreign Affairs에 기고한 논문인 “대만 집착: 미국의 전략은...
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...David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily...
[학술논문] China’s Dilemma on the Korean Peninsula: Not an Alliance but a Security Dilemma
...source of China’s attitudes toward North Korea’s provocations for two reasons: The first is that China reckons the cost of entrapment would be greater than any gain—a constraint that has the opposite effect for North Korea. The other is structural, in that neither China nor North Korea can afford to abandon the alliance against the South Korea-U.S. and U.S.-Japan alliances. An abandonment...
[학술논문] On the Non-Use and Abuse of Nuclear Proliferation Intelligence: The Cases of North Korea and Iran
...respond in ways that would complicate their preferred policy agenda. This essay examines key instances of the non-use or abuse of proliferation intelligence on North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear programs, when U.S. policymakers appeared to overrate their preferred policy response to North Korean and Iranian nuclear misbehavior, but also to be disinclined to further pursue intelligence that...
[학술논문] A South Korean Progressive Outlook on the Middle East Conflict: Contextualizing Hankyoreh’s Coverage of the Gaza War
...dichotomy between the “conservative” and the “progressive”camps. This discourse relies on commonly held perceptions related to domestic issues and to South Korea’s relations with the U.S. and with North Korea. However, what does “progressivism” mean when the context is neither of these issues? With this question in mainstream-”conservative” press, there...
[학술논문] 한국전쟁 휴전에 대한 공산측 지도부의 입장
...States suggested to release only a limited number of Chinese POWs. Stalin took a careful stance not to lose the communist cause in negotiations with the U.S. He had chosen to continue the war rather than accepting disadvantageous truce as POW's issue entered into dispute. In sum, the communists were not so entirely satisfied with the armistice because they failed to attain the withdrawal of foreign...
[학술논문] 미국 냉전정책의 부메랑(boomerang) -2006년 북한의 제1차 핵실험의 정치-
...nuclear threats is a necessary evil for U.S. strategy goals. This is why reason the U.S. would not accept North Korea's demands for ensuring the preservation of regime, ending of the Korean War, normalization between two. To sum it up, North Korea' nuclear threats is U.S. policy' boomerang from the early Cold War to October 9, 2006. Without changing U.S. approach, North Korea will has more...