[뉴스] North Korea claims another successful test of its hypersonic glide missile tech

...one of the world’s fastest and most accurate weapons – with the potential to ultimately be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
Kim Jong Un’s regime successfully tested a hypersonic glide vehicle that was fired aloft using solid-fueled engines on Sunday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, marking the fourth such test claimed by Pyongyang and the first with a potentially...

[정치/군사] The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea

...power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea’s extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state. Not a reassuring story’ – Sir John Scarlett, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Written by Dr Sung-Yoon Lee, a scholar and specialist on North...

[학술논문] The Structural Elements of North Korea’s Insecurity Applying the “Regional Security Complex Theory”

...focus of this paper. Kim Jong Un’s ship left the foggy port without a modified navigation chart from his father. The main elements of a track chart are maintaining the dictatorship, the nuclear-weapon policy, and the military-first policy. In this sense, Barry Buzan’s Regional Security Complex Theory is appropriate because security complexes in this region are action-reaction phenomena...

[학술논문] Beyond Security towards Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Strategies for Transforming A Nuclear Conflict

Keyword: The Second Nuclear Security Summit (Seoul, March 26-27, 2012) aimed at moving beyond security towards peace. It was held against the backdrop of increased tensions with North Korea, the only state to have abandoned the NPT, and in the face of a pending multi-stage rocket launch and potential future third nuclear weapon test by Pyongyang. All forms of strategic engagement with North Korea...

[학술논문] Leadership and Multilateralism in the Recent North Korean Crisis

...Korean quasi-nuclear weapon state(QNWS)''s strategic intentions and leadership characteristics, I compare two Koreas from the angle of effective leadership by suggesting three kinds: de-securitizing, persuasive and empathetic cooperation leadership. The most significant condition for another summit between Park Keun-hye and Kim Jung-un. rests upon the question about nuclear crisis settlement...

[학술논문] The Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula and Directions to Resolve North Korea’s Nuclear Issues

...with nuclear threats. Now that North Korea claims the status of a nuclear weapon state, it becomes more difficult to achieve North Korea’s denuclearization through negotiations. This paper intends to draw major lessons from the European confidence building of the Helsinki Process to apply to the Trust-building Process on the Korean Peninsula in order to resolve North Korea’s nuclear issues...

[학술논문] 한반도 신뢰프로세스가 성공하려면: 국방안보 관점에서

...Korea’s nuclear program must be halted and its nuclear-weapon-state status should not be recognized. President Obama offered full support to President Park’s North Korea policy of Korean Peninsula Trust Process, while reassuring United States’ security commitment to Korea with possible employment of various U.S. military capabilities, including potential use of nuclear weapons when...