[뉴스] North Korea claims another successful test of its hypersonic glide missile tech
...the world’s fastest and most accurate weapons – with the potential to ultimately be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
Kim Jong Un’s regime successfully tested a hypersonic glide vehicle that was fired aloft using solid-fueled engines on Sunday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, marking the fourth such test claimed by Pyongyang and the first with a potentially...
[뉴스] North Korea claims to test underwater nuclear-capable drone after US, South Korea and Japan show off naval might
Seoul, South KoreaCNN — North Korea on Friday claimed it had successfully tested an underwater nuclear weapons system earlier this week in response to naval drills by the United States, South Korea and Japan.
[학술논문] Europe and North Korea: Competing Security and Humanitarian Impulses
...approach in the past and, very likely, in the future. It is useful to further dissect the key issues for both hard and soft power or security impulses. Hard security comprises five major issues: nuclear weapons and missiles; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missiles off the Korean Peninsula; the use of force; scenarios for sudden change, destabilization or even collapse; and cyber security. These...
[학술논문] 북한의 핵 미사일 위협에 대한 일본의 군사 외교적 대응
... The only remaining missing link in determining whether North Korea’s nuclear weapons have become usable is in the issue of miniaturization. On this point, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA) assessed in 2009 that North Korea “may be able to successfully mate a nuclear warhead to a ballistic missile.”Capable of covering almost the entire territory of Japan, the medium-range...
[학술논문] International Cooperation for the Promotion of North Korea’s Reform and Opening
Coping with the miserable economic situation since the collapse of the former Soviet Union and to secure regime stability, North Korea opted for the “Military-First Politics”and secret development of nuclear weapons. International sanctions under the U.N. Security Council resolutions have not succeeded in altering North Korea’s behavior. Further sanctions would not work without the...
[학술논문] [Special Issue] Security Governance Norms and North Korea
...both a normative and rational concern for external actors. The implications of such reformulation for dealing with North Korea are that universal entitlement rights impose obligations on all those who govern, even in East Asia; and that internal human insecurity in North Korea should be as great a concern for regional international security governance as North Korean nuclear weapons and brinksmanship...
[학술논문] North Korea’s Instrumentalization of Diplomacy: Passing Through the “Danger Zone” of its Nuclear Weapons Program
...using diplomacy to deflect threats of coercion or possibly preemption from its nuclear weapons program. After the decision was made to acquire nuclear weapons capability,Pyongyang decided to use the process of nuclear crisis diplomacy that unfolded in the early 1990s in ways that would allow it to weather any repercussions and counter any efforts of coercion. Pyongyang did not, it seems, negotiate in...