[학술논문] North Korea: Policy Failures, Human Insecurity, Consequences, and Prescriptions
This article seeks to examine the causes and consequences of domestic and international policy failures in North Korea through the lens of human security, and to suggest several alternative policy options for the future. Human security is an emerging multi-disciplinary paradigm for understanding vulnerabilities at the level of individual human beings. It incorporates methodologies and analyses from...
[학술논문] North Korea and Crimes against Humanity: A ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Perspective
...‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). The R2P doctrine affirms that each state has the responsibility to protect its population from four mass atrocity crimes including ‘crimes against humanity’. As such, this article focuses on North Korea’s fundamental responsibility to protect its citizens from crimes against humanity, and the international community’s commitment to assist...
[학술논문] [Special Issue] The Responsibility to Protect and Northeast Asia: The Case of North Korea
The Responsibility to Protect in international relations and international law has been widely debated during the past decade. However, relatively few commentators have focused on Northeast Asia as a whole and analyzed whether the Responsibility to Protect applies to North Korea. Therefore, the following article examines the Responsibility to Protect from the perspective of Northeast Asia and elaborates...
[학술논문] [Special Issue] Lessons Learned for Promoting Human Security in North Korea
...a moral obligation to aid the most vulnerable in North Korea—not only because of the latter’s entitlement rights due to a shared humanity, but also because of the negative impact of some of the policies that have been adopted toward the DPRK by actors on the international stage. This moral obligation is linked to principles underlying the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) paradigm. In the...
[학술논문] 리비아에 대한 ‘보호책임(R2P)’ 적용 사례 연구: 북한에 주는 교훈과 시사점
2001년 캐나다 정부가 주도한 ‘국가 주권과 개입에 관한 국제위원회(ICISS)'가 대규모 비인도적 인명 살상행위가 자행되는 상황에서 해당국가와 국제사회의 시민보호 책임 문제를 정리한 소위 ‘보호책임(Responsibility to Protect: R2P)’이라는 개념을 국제사회에 제시한 이래 현재 이 개념이 중요한 국제규범으로 정착되고 있는 과정에 있다. 특히 2011년 UN 안전보장이사회는 리비아 사태에 R2P 원칙을 준용하여 군사작전을 포함한 모든 조치를 승인함으로써 향후 국제관계에 중요한 시사점을 주었다. 이 논문에서는 리비아 사태를 참고하여 앞으로 북한에서 민중 봉기가 일어난다면 UN 안전보장이사회가 북한에 대해 R2P 원칙을 적용할 수 있을 것인가, 그리고...