[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] 박근혜정부의 대중국정책과 한중관계의 과제
...administration for China(People's Republic of China) in the era of G2(Group of Two). G2 is a proposed informal special relationship between the United States and China. Originally initiated by C. Fred Bergsten as primarily an economic relationship, it began to gain wider currency and scope from foreign policy experts as a term recognizing the centrality of the U.S.-China relationship near the beginning...
[학술논문] Transforming Korea-US Defenses: The Agenda Ahead
...question U.S. security guarantees to its allies. These new worries build on deeper difficulties between the United States and the Republic of South Korea (ROK) over what they need for their joint defenses against Pyongyang in the face of the evolving threat from the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK). These troubles encompass Washington’s plans to sharplyreduce the U.S. military...
[학술논문] Military Alliances and Reality of Regional Integration: Japan, South Korea, the US vs. China, North Korea
...consider the U.S. as a military ally in the context of the China–North Korea alliance by using the iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regression(SUR) method in estimating defense goods demand functions. The findings are that Japan considered the U.S. to be a closer ally than the U.S. did during 2000~2005 and South Korea may regard the U.S. as a closer ally than vice versa. The U.S. regards Japan...
[학술논문] Towards Gendering Northeast Asian Traditional Security: The Cases of the USS Pueblo and Juche Policy
... South Korean and U.S. responses to such maneuvers havefurther contributed to regional instability. Using the case of the 1968 Pueblo Incident,the paper examines the context of military provocation and reaction with the focuson a suspected gender-bias in regional security affairs. The paper investigatesPyongyang’s motivation for initiating a crisis and Washington’s and Seoul’sresponses...
[학술논문] 1950년대 재미한인 『독립』그룹의 非美활동조사위원회(HUAC) 청문회 소환과 추방
...the letter of 1948. The second point was on the anti-U. S. position of Korean Independence news during the Korean War period such as withdrawing the U. S. forces from Korea and so called Germ warfare by the U. S. forces. The third one was regarding the activities of Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born which was organized by U. S. Communist Party. HUAC and federal agencies wanted to...