[뉴스] Kim Jong-un’s move to drop Korea reunification goal raises fears of return to war
A mere two weeks into the new year and the Korean peninsula has seen major, worrying developments that are raising concerns of a possible resumption of war.
[뉴스] North Korea’s Kim vows to dismantle father’s unification arch as he declares South Korea ‘principal enemy’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday vowed to remove a massive monument to the possible reunification of the Korean Peninsula that his father constructed in Pyongyang, calling it an “eyesore.”
[학술논문] Resolving the North Korean Question: A Constructivist Perspective
...the Korean Peninsula. This paper argues that as long as the two Koreas hold onto a shared sense of ethnic homogeneity and believe in the possibility of national unification, the vicious cycle of the division structure will not cease; it thus proposes a paradigm shift that globalizes a vision of national unification to overcome the current division structure.
[학술논문] 분단의 전이 : 재일(在日) 분열과 남북관계 함수
...Korean residents in Japan. The Koreans in Japan have been divided, because the Korean peninsula has been divided. The division between South and North Koreas was directly reflected in the inner dynamics of the Japan-based Korean communities. When governments were installed separately in the peninsula's South and North in 1948, and during the Korean war that broke out in 1950, and also during the subsequent Cold...
[학술논문] Reconstructing Korean Reunification Using Multiculturalism and Diaspora Perspectives: A Preliminary Study
...‘Diaspora’ formed during the history of the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia. The concept of ‘Korean reunification’ is not just an ideology to overcome the national division but is a requirement to understand the perspectives of multiculturalism and diaspora. This study suggests a number of theoretical points on how to reconstruct the concept of national reunification contingent...
[학술논문] The Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance
... surrounding the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia until around 2030. As a result, this paper finds the fact that maintaining the ROK-U.S. alliance is the optimal choice for both countries until 2030, despite the various strategic changes in Northeast Asia, including a possible national reunification of the Korean Peninsula and presents a long-term vision for the ROK-U.S. alliance based on this fact...
[학술논문] Planning for the Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance: A Joint Vision for Today and Post-Reunification
...is hard to predict how and when the Korean Peninsula will finally become reunited, there is no doubt that the best means to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula is through maintaining a strong ROK-U.S. alliance, both today and after reunification. A new approach with a midterm goal of peaceful coexistence is needed to keep Pyongyang positively engaged and to set the stage for eventual reunification...