[학술논문] UN Security Council’s Action against North Korean Nuclear and Missile Test
The United Nations Security Council adopted not only Resolution 1695 against the North Korean missile test on July 5, 2006 as well as Resolution 1718 on October 9, 2006 and 1874 on June 12, 2009 against its nuclear tests. The Security Council also adopted a presidential statement against North Korea's long-range rocket launch on April 5, 2009. The Council’s endeavor has focused on restraining...
[학술논문] The North Korean Nuclear Issue and the United Nations
...unstable situation on the Korean peninsula, especially during the succession period apparently underway in North Korea. Therefore, resolving the North Korean nuclear issue through the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)could help the resumption of the Six-Party Talks (6PT). However, the complex and intermingled goals of the 6PT are further limited by the new uranium enrichment program. During the present...
[학술논문] [Special Issue] The Responsibility to Protect and Northeast Asia: The Case of North Korea
The Responsibility to Protect in international relations and international law has been widely debated during the past decade. However, relatively few commentators have focused on Northeast Asia as a whole and analyzed whether the Responsibility to Protect applies to North Korea. Therefore, the following article examines the Responsibility to Protect from the perspective of Northeast Asia and elaborates
[학술논문] North Korea’s Second Nuclear Test: Neoclassical Realism Perspectives
Pressures coming from external sources, such as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) presidential statement along with additional pressures were combined with North Korea’s internal logic, which required it to conduct the second nuclear test as a nuclear power in response to changing international circumstances. Firstly, North Korea maintains the position that it has the status of a nuclear...
[학술논문] North Korea and the Use of Force in International Law
...examines the various legal justifications that might be offered to justify military action against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It claims that in absence of United Nations Security Council authorization, or an imminent armed attack triggering the right of self-defense, or an invitation of the North Korean government to intervene, any other category of force including the right to...