[학술논문] North Korea’s Nuclear Decision-making and Plausible Scenarios
... the losses resulting from using nuclear weapons. In the meantime, the advancement and enlargement of the nuclear arsenal can help reduce the risks associated with using them. The Kim Jong Un regime, with its expanding nuclear program, is thus growing all the likelier to use nuclear weapons in possible future wars, and also to increase the number of nuclear weapons it would employ in such wars.
[학술논문] 미국 냉전정책의 부메랑(boomerang) -2006년 북한의 제1차 핵실험의 정치-
...their purpose continued to remain so. In other words, North Korea' nuclear threats is a necessary evil for U.S. strategy goals. This is why reason the U.S. would not accept North Korea's demands for ensuring the preservation of regime, ending of the Korean War, normalization between two. To sum it up, North Korea' nuclear threats is U.S. policy' boomerang from the early Cold War to October...
[학술논문] The Park Geun-hye Government’s Role in a Needed New Strategy toward North Korea
...prospect that North Korea soon will produce nuclear warheads for its Nodong missiles. Nuclear warheads on the Nodongs will give North Korea a new instrument to pursue provocative acts against South Korea. It signifies the death of denuclearization as a credible policy priority for South Korea and the United States. The paper contends that a new strategy is needed to replace denuclearization. South...
[학술논문] The Disappointments of Disengagement: Assessing Obama’s North Korea Policy
...to significantly lower the foreign policy priority of North Korea and carried out a policy of concerted disengagement, an approach the administration called “strategic patience.” The strategy of disengagement showed disappointing results by late 2010, and so the United States made a begrudging,tactical adjustment by starting tentative bilateral talks with the DPRK. When the preliminary...
[학술논문] Myth and Reality in Trust-Building in the Korean Peninsula
...difficulty trying to build trust given the nature of U.S. and South Korean military strategy for a war with North Korea. Simply put, the way that the Combined Forces Command (CFC) intends to fight a Korean war is highly escalatory; it exacerbates the incentives that North Korea already faces to resort to nuclear use in a conventional war. This paper describes how the modern “way of war”...