[뉴스] Can America Live with a Nuclear North Korea?

If the United States has decided to live with North Korean nuclear weapons, it should take some actions to reduce the risks of those weapons.

[뉴스] China urges US to ‘reflect’ on nuclear arms policy

China has suggested the United States should “reflect” on its behaviour and reduce its nuclear arsenal after a senior official said Washington may need more warheads.

[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.

[지리/관광] North Korea: What we know about the world's most isolated country (Paperback)

...1990s, known as the "Arduous March." The analysis also extends outward, dissecting North Korea's formidable military, its destabilizing nuclear program, its sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities, and its fraught foreign relations with China, the United States, and its estranged sibling, South Korea. Ultimately, this work provides an indispensable guide to understanding the forces of change bubbling...

[정치/군사] 북핵 퍼즐과 한반도 아마겟돈

...20년간 우리의 대북 정책은 북한이 동북아 지역에 가하는 위협을 줄이는 데 분명히 실패했다"는 로버드 갈루치(Robert L.Gallucci) 전 미 국무부 차관보의 발언과 "우리는 미국이 이 위험한 상황을 신속히 해결하기 위해 절대적으로 주의를 기울여야 한다고 믿는다(...we believe it is imperative that the United States turn its attention to quickly resolving this dangerous situation)"는 스티븐 보즈워스(Stephen Bosworth) 전 국무부 대북정책 특별대표와 로버드 갈루치(Robert L.Gallucci) 전 미 국무부 차관보가 「인터내셔널 뉴욕 타임즈」에서 한 공동의 주장에 대해 깊이 생각해보아야 할 것이다...

[학술논문] Strategic Costs and Russia’s Shifting Calculus on Nuclear Assistance to North Korea

...still discouraged nuclear assistance. Since 2017, two structural changes have altered this calculus. First, North Korea’s achievement of a minimal nuclear deterrent means further assistance would impose few additional costs on Russia’s already limited leverage. Second, Russia’s intensifying confrontation with the United States has increased the strategic value of North Korea’s nuclear advancement as...

[학술논문] South Korea-United States Relations in 2025: Lee Adjusts to Trump as the U.S.-China Conflict Deepens

...spending and burden-sharing, in exchange for the best-available access to the U.S. market (mostly, a 15 percent tariff level) and U.S. support for Korea enriching and reprocessing civilian nuclear fuel and building nuclear attack submarines. Lee supported Trump's preferences on trilateral relations with Japan, while Trump supported Lee's desire to re-engage with North Korea. The allies also reaffirmed longstanding...

[학술논문] 한미상호방위조약 체결을 위한 이승만 정부의 협상전략

...course of the ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty negotiation. However, despite the negative impact of these factors, Syngman Rhee Government used for resistance bargaining strategy in response to the United States's indirect pressure, such as brinkmanship and bluffing. The objective of this strategy for the US was trying to obtain maximum yield. In contrast, under direct pressure such as withdrawal of the US...

[학술논문] The Economic Rehabilitation of North Korea: Prospects after Kim Jong-il

Despite having signed or agreed to four formal weapon denuclearization agreements, the Kim Jong-il family regime in Pyongyang shows no fundamental willingness to give up its nuclear weapons. Therefore this article looks past the denuclearization issue, and examines the potential for a future rehabilitation of North Korea’s economy in a post -Kim era. Four economic sectors or challenges are analyzed...

[학술논문] Strategy Optimization of Peripheral Nuclear States: Hybrid Modality Deterrence in Confronting Regional and Extra-Regional Threats

Peripheral nuclear states face distinct strategic and technological constraints when compared to the established nuclear powers. North Korea illustrates how such states can simultaneously adopt different nuclear postures towards distinct adversaries, calibrated to their respective threat profiles, through what may be described as a Hybrid Modality Deterrence model. Within this model, two posture types...

[해외] North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs

...commander said in April 2025 that in return for North Korea's assistance in its war against Ukraine, "Russia is expanding sharing of space, nuclear, and missile-applicable technology, expertise, and materials to the DPRK." A trilateral statement of the United States, South Korea, and Japan reiterates their "steadfast commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea." North Korean leader Kim...

[해외] Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear

...key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry Kissinger predicted in 2023 that Japan would go nuclear within the decade. The international relations scholar John Mearsheimer has made the point that nuclearization by Seoul and Tokyo would be the “logical outcome” if the United States were to continue being distracted by conflicts in the...

[해외] Pyongyang’s northern turn is reshaping the Korean Peninsula

...for South Korea. Pyongyang now seeks to engage Washington with growing confidence derived from its northern diplomacy, bypassing and excluding Seoul. It aims to be recognized by the United States as a nuclear power on par with China and Russia, and to negotiate on that basis. In this evolving context, South Korea’s long-standing goals of denuclearization and unification are becoming increasingly...

[해외] Kim’s Dangerous Liaisons: Russia, China, and the Growing North Korea Threat

...Partnership the two men signed that day formalized a relationship that had been quietly taking shape since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022: a military alliance between two nuclear-armed pariah states. By October 2024, around 11,000 North Korean troops had been deployed to Russia, primarily in the Kursk region along Ukraine’s northeastern border, to support Russian combat operations....

[해외] From deadlock to dialogue on the Korean Peninsula: It is time to revisit the idea of North East Asian regional security talks

...inter-Korean reconciliation in the absence of engagement with the United States. Although both US President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have indicated openness to resuming engagement over the past year, the US objective of denuclearization is deeply at odds with North Korea’s heavy reliance on nuclear deterrence. Hopes for renewed diplomacy remain fragile against the backdrop...