[학술논문] North Korea’s Instrumentalization of Diplomacy: Passing Through the “Danger Zone” of its Nuclear Weapons Program
...German foreign policy wanted to become the instrument of this armament program and prevent preemption. By using the Tirpitz Plan as a matrix for analysis of North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy,new light is shed on nearly two decades of denuclearization efforts. Pyongyang’s strategic thinking about nuclear weapons and its instrumentalization of diplomacy come into clear focus. The findings open...
[학술논문] 1. Addressing the North Korean Nuclear Threat: 2. A Strategic-Pragmatic-Comprehensive Perspective and its Policy Alternatives
The purpose of this paper is to propose the “strategic-pragmatic-comprehensive (SPC)” approach that can facilitate North Korean denuclearization. In the paper, the dangers posed by a nuclear North Korea, the poverty of the non-SPC policy approaches that were pursued by both Obama and Lee administrations, and policy alternatives based on that SPC perspective are discussed.
[학술논문] 시진핑시대의 대외정책과 대한반도정책 전망
...strengthening influence toward the Korean peninsular and denuclearization of the Korean peninsular. But Chinese policy toward the Korean peninsular will be affected very important factors as Chinese status in the international society, Sino-America relations, relations between the South and the North of Korea, an sudden behaviour of the North Korea and the south Korean policy preference of the next administration...
[학술논문] Kim Jong-un’s North Korea: What Should We Expect?
...expect any significant change in Pyongyang. The North Korean leaders will continue diplomatic maneuvers aimed at extracting foreign aid, and they will stubbornly avoid domestic reforms and will not consider denuclearization. All these policies might be annoying and even dangerous to the outside world, but from the point of view of North Korea leaders, such things make perfect sense, so one should not...
[학술논문] In Search of Balance between Inducements and Sanctions: Evaluating the Lee Myung-bak Administration’s North Korea Policy
... Korean administrations have strived toward the common goal of encouraging change in North Korea (denuclearization, reform, and liberalization). But the policy measures that the South Korean government could realistically employ were limited to two economic measures, namely inducements and sanctions. These two measures are like two sides of the same coin. Excessive utilization of one inevitably reduces...