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

...own children are young. Readable and insightful, this book is an invaluable portrait of a woman who might yet hold the survival of her despotic dynasty in her hands. ‘A detailed, insightful study . . . Lee is excellent on the regime’s reliance on suppressing, distorting and manipulating information . . . His vivid account of surreal, intractable negotiations...

[학술논문] A Most Difficult Year: Will North Korea Survive Its Current Travails?

..., diplomatic dexterity, and uncanny survival skills. And the DPRK has the support of China, which is prepared to live with Pyongyang’s nuclear status and committed to keeping the regime on “life support.” North Korea is down, but hardly out. In the midst of this economic crisis, Kim Jong Un is gambling that by expanding his nuclear and missile arsenals, he can convince the United...

[학술논문] Survivalist North Korea’s Selective Tourism Development: Kim Jong Un’s Leadership Legitimacy

...functions to maintain rather than subvert the Kim-family system. More than merely a coping mechanism, I hypothesize tourism development’s multifaceted use under the Kim Jong Un regime. Externally, it served the regime as an instrument to indirectly engage the United States and pursue selective cooperation with North Korea’s powerful neighbor, China, not only to generate foreign exchange amid...

[학술논문] The Policy of Enforced Isolation in North Korea and Albania: Its Role in Regime Survival and Regime Collapse

...to analyze the North Korean regime’s isolationist policy, which is focused more towards its own population than towards other countries, as a key survival strategy. North Korea and Albania shared many historical and ideological similarities between the 1940s and the 1980s, but their fates diverged when Albania was eventually engulfed by protests and underwent regime change. Albania’s Stalinist...

[학술논문] Managing a Nuclear North Korea: Perils, Principles, and Policy Proposals

...Korea pay a steep price for its continuing pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. If the U.S. can convince Kim Jong Un that his policies are undermining the very thing he seeks – survival – he may reconsider the choices he has made. Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un must be made to understand that he is sentencing his people to a lifetime of privation and his economy to a hopeless future...

[현안분석] Understanding North Korea’s Nuclear Possession Strategies: A Comprehensive Analysis and Outlook

...pursuit of the official recognition of a nuclear arms state. The study seeks to unravel how the regime leverages nuclear weaponary in its external dealings to ensure regime survival, and to prognosticate its future maneuvers in this regard. To achieve its objectives, the study first evaluates the Kim Jong-un regime’s interpretation of recent developments on the Korean Peninsula and in the surrounding...