[학술논문] What Does North Korea Want from China? Understanding Pyongyang’s Policy Priorities toward Beijing
What influences the role domestic policy priorities and ideology play in NorthKorea’s enactment of foreign policy toward China? Historically, both NorthKorea and China are communist nations that share cultural characteristics. Currently, the Sino-North Korea alliance still seems effective and valid. Whenlooking at China, North Korea does not perceive any struggle with regard tosecurity and regime...
[학술논문] Military Alliances and Reality of Regional Integration: Japan, South Korea, the US vs. China, North Korea
...South Korea may regard the U.S. as a closer ally than vice versa. The U.S. regards Japan as a closer ally than Korea. South Korea’s demand for defense goods has not been increased by the threat from the China–North Korea alliance but American and Japanese demand has recently been increased by the threat, implying that South Korea has not regarded the China–North Korea alliance as a...
[학술논문] 아베 정권의 우경화와 동북아 안보 향배-집단적 자위권 추진과 대응방향을 중심으로-
...Japan under the presupposition that Japan is both “common nation” and “nation of great military power.”Second, attentively observing the possibility of a US-Japan alliance shifting its recognition of a threat from North Korea to China, the ROK government should strategically approach ROK-Japan and ROK-US-Japan cooperation. Third, the ROK government should analyze the competition...
[학술논문] Rising China and the Evolution of China-North Korea Relations
China’s foreign policies and behaviors with respect to the North Koreannuclear crises are conflicting or inconsistent, and therefore warrant scholarlyexplanation. China’s policies and behaviors toward North Korea tend tofluctuate within a duplexity composed of the traditional alliance relationshipand a newly evolved strategic cooperative relationship. Through analysis ofChina’s policies...
[학술논문] 북한의 4차 핵실험 이후 중국의 대응 - ‘왕이 이니셔티브’의 배경과 함의
...in the Korean peninsula. This article argues that the Wang Yi initiative is a China's strategic consideration to address its dilemma between the United States and North Korea. For its stable economic development, China has to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue lest it should undermine the relations with the United States. By contrast, China also has to keep a stable relations with North Korea...