[학술논문] [Special Issue] Lessons Learned for Promoting Human Security in North Korea
North Korea is a conflict-affected state facing the inter-related challenges of underdevelopment and human insecurity, as well as poor governance structures and policies. The international community has 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
[학술논문] Russia's Security Priorities in Northeast Asia
...but in much wider region, which is stretched to Western borders of Krasnoyarsky Krai – half way between Vladivostok and Moscow. Russia is also trying to strengthen political umbrella for its engagement with Pacific Asia region through participation in multilateral forums –from APEC to East Asia Summit (EAS). This complicated and quite challenging picture will require from the Russian authorities...
[학술논문] The UN’s Human Rights Policy towards North Korea: The Limit of the Neoliberal Approach
This paper argues that North Korea needs an outside “Two-track engagement” to enhance Human Rights for its people because the regime has a systemic limit. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) takes advantage of repression and violence as an instrument to secure the regime’s stability. Major North Korea’s Human Rights issues which are reflected in the UN Human...
[학술논문] Beyond Security towards Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Strategies for Transforming A Nuclear Conflict
...multi-stage rocket launch and potential future third nuclear weapon test by Pyongyang. All forms of strategic engagement with North Korea aimed first at persuading the regime not to acquire nuclear weapons, and later at getting Pyongyang to renounce them have thus far failed. This paper contends that such strategic interaction, whether focusing primarily on conflict management through increasing the costs...
[학술논문] The Disappointments of Disengagement: Assessing Obama’s North Korea Policy
...Barack Obama boldly promised to enhance US engagement with North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; DPRK). But in his first term as president, his administration was determined 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...