[학술논문] Is China the Boss on North Korea?

China is not North Korea’s boss, though Pyongyang is heavily reliant on Beijing. China wants North Korea to remain stable, and fear of instability has made China reluctant to exercise leverage over Pyongyang. Pyongyang understands that it can get away with its misbehaviors by taking advantage of its strategic importance. And the combination of a monolithic leadership system, juche ideology, and...

[학위논문] 미국의 대북한 위기관리 행태 연구

...conflict between its disapproval of nuclear armament and the drive towards nuclear armament by North Korea. This means that unless North Korea shows veracity in their will of denuclearization, the leverage of incentive by the United States should stay relatively low due to the asymmetry of motivation. Though the United States is in absolute superiority in terms of delivering...

[현안분석] One Month of Trump 2.0 and the Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Progress and Prospect

...this backdrop, South Korea needs to effectively offset Trump’s transactional approach and induce a preventative effect of Pyongyang’s misjudgments by maintaining the bonds of the ROK-U.S. alliance through Korea’s leverage assets against the U.S., such as the bilateral cooperation in shipbuilding. This requires Korea’s thorough analysis of the first 30 days of Trump 2.0.

[학술논문] Uncertain Prospects for Engagement with the DPRK

...others to press the North to negotiate seriously. But realistically, U.S. leverage to bring North Korea to the negotiating table is limited. Prospects for getting talks underway in 2022 will depend mainly on Kim Jong Un and on his calculations of whether negotiated sanctions relief is essential to alleviate the North’s economic predicament; whether he can count on continued support from China (including...

[학위논문] 북한의 가격개혁과 시장가격 결정요인 분석

...the price information by participant of business. However, these policies cannot solve the fundamental economic problems before the increasing of commodity supply in the market. To sum up, North Korea’s government can make the price stabilization in the market until limit leverage before currency reform in 2009. However, these adjustment programs cannot solve the fundamental problems...