[학술논문] Japan’s Power Shift and Its DPRK Policy
Many serious issues exist between Japan and North Korea (DPRK), such as nuclear, missile, abduction, and colonial issues. Progress on their resolution has been limited. Consequently, the two countries have remained unfriendly neighbors. Their relations recently deteriorated as a result of the DPRK’s satellite launch and its second nuclear test in the first half of 2009, and Japan’s strong response...
[학술논문] 북한의 핵 미사일 위협에 대한 일본의 군사 외교적 대응
...properly addressed nuclear as well as other issues of Japanese concern. When North Korea informed Tokyo that many of the Japanese abductees had died and presented fake death certificates, however, the Japanese general public was outraged. Since then, the abduction issue has become a big political issue and the Japanese government has had no alternative but to take a tough position toward the North.
[학술논문] The UN’s Human Rights Policy towards North Korea: The Limit of the Neoliberal Approach
...North Korea’s Human Rights issues which are reflected in the UN Human Rights Resolutions are related to the Neoliberals’ way of exhortation over the matters of reunion of separated family members, abduction, food control, freedom of speech, arbitrary detention, and human trafficking etc. In North Korea, domestic societal opposition is too weak and/or too oppressed to present a significant challenge...
[학술논문] 휴전협정 제59조 ‘실향사민(失鄕私民, displaced civilians)’ 조항을 통해 본 전시 민간인 납치문제의 쟁점과 귀결
The "civilian kidnapping(abduction) during wartime" was a hot issue that was debated for a long time, not only when the cease-fire was being negotiated between South and North Koreas, but also today, 60 years later after the war was finally discontinued. The issue of people who were taken to the north against their own will during the war was discussed in the POW(Prisoner of War) negotiations, but...
[학위논문] 북한이탈주민의 일본생활 정착과정에 미친 정치적·사회적 요인에 관한 연구
...place from 1958 to 1983; I examined the life of those defectors who had just returned from the DPRK amidst the severely affected state of the Japan-DPRK relations due to the unresolved issues of abduction of the Japanese nationals. The following methodologies and approaches taken in this study include but are not limited to 1) the contents of dictation collected from a series of interviews taken during...