[학술논문] ROK Policy on North Korea and Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation: Prospects and Analyses
This paper reviews the development of the ROK policy on North Korea and its relations with inter-Korean economic cooperation over the past 15years. It also briefly assesses the current status of inter-Korean economic cooperation and discusses its future development. In addition, the paper argues as follows. The ROK policy on North Korea consists of three parts: 1) the basic perceptions of the existing...
[학술논문] Europe and North Korea: Competing Security and Humanitarian Impulses
...a new South Korean engagement policy toward the North. However, given Europe’s present financial crisis, it may also be diverted from playing too forthright a role in such a distant region. Rather, the EU and European states are likely to stake their approach to North Korea on the basis of both South Korean and United States policy. Cleavages in approaches to North Korea need to be minimized...
[학술논문] The UN’s Human Rights Policy towards North Korea: The Limit of the Neoliberal Approach
This paper argues that North Korea needs an outside “Two-track engagement” to enhance Human Rights for its people because the regime has a systemic limit. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) takes advantage of repression and violence as an instrument to secure the regime’s stability. Major North Korea’s Human Rights issues which are reflected in the UN Human...
[학술논문] Strategies for Positive Engagement with North Korea
...“positive engagement” as a cooperative measure for reducing threats and facilitating the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Thus far, tactics for avoiding lethal confrontation on the Korean peninsula have been based heavily on coercion with a lack of genuine negotiation, and such measures are clearly unstable and conflict-prone. Instead, the positive engagement approach aims to achieve...
[학술논문] Reciprocity in South Korean Security Policy Vis-à-vis North Korea and the United States
...security policy with regard to North Korea and the United States and analyze how the principle fits with US security policy concerning South Korea. Diffuse reciprocity shaped Korean security policy starting with President Kim Dae-jung’s Sunshine Policy. The Lee Myung-bak government’s hard-line approach increased military tension and economic anxiety on the peninsula. The new South Korean...