[뉴스] The most significant ambassador jobs in Trump’s second term
...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 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 against Washington and...
[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 이길...
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Victor D. Cha and 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 refers to...
[학술논문] 中ㆍ美관계에 있어서의 북한 변수
The paper attempts to read the North Korea’s prospect as a variable in the U.S.-China relations in case the country collapses. To date, the collapse of North Korea is perceived by Beijing as extremely unlikely, and thus, a foregone conclusion, while Washington, with firm conviction of the collapse, is gearing up to all possible scenarios and signals as evidenced in official statements, documents,...
[학술논문] 코리안 디아스포라 문학의 한 양상- 정철훈의 『인간의 악보』를 중심으로
『A sheet music of human』 by Jung Chul-hun, discriminate from other diaspora literature that is written in South Korea. This novel shows the journey 'South Korea-North Korea-Moscow(the U.S.S.R)-Almaty(Kazakhstan)' as a Korean ordeal history of diaspora is brought about division. This means division literature is locked in a time and space of Korea overcomes the Korean Peninsula. Missing part of Korean...
[학술논문] China’s Military Rise and Its Implications for Regional and Peninsular Security
...and domestic R&D on new weapons; 3) a strategic reassessment at the end of the 1990s; and 4) a success in a series of defense-industrial reform measures, which began in 1998∼99. Probably the most consequential aspect of PLA force modernization will be a change in the regional structure of power over which the U.S. maintains a leading role, especially when the PLA acquires a more extensive and sustained...
[학술논문] The Limited Influence of the Kim Young-sam Government on U.S. Policy: Causes and Factors
...international order and the attitude toward the U.S. The government adopted a containment policy toward North Korea and tried to alter U.S. policy by using realist policy tools, such as manipulation and taking a neutralist position, while dispensing with liberal policy tools, such as consultation norms and transnational coalitions. The Kim government’s limited impact on U.S. policy implies that the South Korean...
[학술논문] 알레고리 영화로서의 <마더> -영화에 나타난 대한민국 현대사의 비극성-
...North Korea and the U.S. over the issue of nuclear weapons. Like this, the film hides the layer of meaning of the tragic contemporary Korean history; the repetition of tragic history; and the relationship between them and our portrait as the people who are undemocratic and violent; who distort, hide and forget the truth under the surface layer of maternal affection. The director's view on the tragic...