[학술논문] Inter-Korean Relations in 2025: The Lee Administration's Pragmatic Recalibration after Yoon

...domestic political change within alliance and great-power dynamics, the article demonstrates that Lee's engagement efforts and pragmatic policies in 2025 functioned primarily as a risk management strategy aimed at stabilizing a deteriorating external environment surrounding the peninsula, rather than as a pathway toward denuclearization or a mechanism for facilitating substantive change in inter-Korean...

[학술논문] The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Paradigm Shift for Nonproliferation?

"The PSI is in substance a form of export control regime activities between and among major allies of the Unites States, which belongs to the typical supply-side approach in terms of the proliferation management. In short, the PSI is not possibly a new paradigm for the proliferation management, contrary to the expectation of some wishful thinking group in field of non- proliferation. In this respect...

[학술논문] The Right Approach to Change North Korea: Consistent Pressure as Learned from Chicken Game Theory

...President Lee's policy. As a result, a glimpse of hope started to be seen until the attack on the Cheonan warship. In order to change North Korea, democratic nations including South Korea and the US should keep cool-headed before warm-hearted and continuously compel North Korea to change. They should be united and tough in punishing North Korea's provocations. The warm-hearted engagement efforts for the North...

[학술논문] Impact of the Peace Regime Building on Security in the Korean Peninsula

...For a KPPR process, it proposed a two-step approach, that is,political CBMs through summit meetings and a peace treaty involving the U.S.,China, and the two Koreas (the actual parties to the Korean War). This examines the UNC and the USFK in connection with KPPR. This postulates that even after a KPPR is instituted the status of the USFK will not change although the UNC’s future will be uncertain...

[학술논문] 북한의 체제변화에 대한 미래예측 연구 : 통일비용 수준을 고려한 Dynamic Modeling 예측기법을 중심으로

...to system dynamics technique for analysis how will system change of south and north Korea and unity expense effect affect stability of Unification of South and North Korea. In particular, considering a sudden regime collapse time and after that time as the unification time and after that time respectively we approach with a focus on change process of North's system. In order to achieve the purpose...

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

...inconsistent approach the last time Kim engaged with Trump, when a mutual commitment to confidence building in 2018 was followed by the latter’s one-sided denuclearization demands in 2019, spoiling North Korea’s appetite for compromise. Trump’s policy towards Iran—which the USA has attacked twice during nuclear negotiations, with the goals suddenly shifting from non-proliferation to regime change—has likely...

[국내] 기후변화 대응을 위한 남·북·미 3각 협력 추진전략 - 해외 삼각협력 사례분석을 참고로

...한다. As climate change has become a major concern of the international community as a global security threat, the Biden administration is seeking the recovery of its leadership in the international community by leading the climate change issue in the global level as well as taking a approach to the issue in the national security level. North Korea has also recognized the climate change as an important...

[국내] 제8차 노동당 대회와 북한정치: 평가와 전망

... North Korean political system, we focus on the continuation and change at the 8th Party Congress. This report finds that the governing ideology, strategic approach, and power structure will continue and presents evaluations and prospects focusing on how the policy will be in the political area. After the 8th Congress, North Korea has pursued two primary policy goals in the political area. The first...

[국내] The Costs and Benefits of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

...benefits, into three parts - politics, society, and economy. This research seeks to overcome the limits of existing fragmented studies on unification costs and benefits through a temporal and spatial approach to unification costs and benefits depending on the three stages of unification - stage of resolving the division, stage of integrating the system, and the completion stage of building the nation....