[학위논문] 김정은 시대 북한의 ‘핵 강압외교’에 관한 연구

...Korea attempted to communicate and negotiate with the United States, but the United States rejected it, and during this period, North Korea focused on strengthening its defense capabilities rather than improving its relations with the United States. Finally, as a time when legal and institutional devices were in place, economic and nuclear routes were declared and laws and regulations of nuclear countries...

[현안분석] 한국전쟁 및 그 이후 시기 북한의 ‘신해방지구’ 정책 : 동화와 억압

... consciousness of the residents through culture and education projects. The means of coercion and deterrence were mobilized to treat dissident elements that were not resolved through education and culture. Tolerance was given to those who surrendered, but for traitors, even their families were at a disadvantage. From the beginning, Kim Il-sung reiterated that North Korean families of those...

[학술논문] The Growing DPRK Nuclear Threat and the U.S.-ROK Response

...shifted from a doctrine aimed at deterring coercion and attacks against North Korea to a more offensive nuclear strategy that envisions nuclear warfighting and would allow the North to pursue its own coercive agenda. Especially worrisome is the North’s stated willingness to use nuclear weapons preemptively if it believes its leadership is threatened and its emerging capability to threaten U.S....