[해외자료] 38 North Director Jenny Town Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Regarding Security on the Korean Peninsula

...Asia and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Scott Snyder (Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations) and Jenny Town (Senior Fellow, Stimson Center and Director, 38 North) testified on security challenges on the Korean Peninsula and the importance of the US-ROK alliance before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and...

[해외자료] South Korea’s Surprisingly Successful China Policy

...South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, entered office last year, the odds rose that a frostier bilateral relationship with China might take hold. After all, Yoon on the campaign trail talked tough on China, and conservative South Korean politicians typically deepen the US alliance and are suspicious of Chinese support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). Even...

[해외자료] Mr. and Mrs. Kim Go to Beijing

... with Xi, attended a welcoming banquet and luncheon hosted by Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan, watched an art performance, and visited an exhibition showcasing the accomplishments of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The meeting came as a surprise because relations between China and North Korea had been tense for months.

[현안분석] 미국의 한반도 확장억제 평가

...than for the ROK-US alliance despite continued UN sanctions being imposed on the recalcitrant North Korea. This kind of situation could make a negative impact on the U.S. extended deterrence for ROK. As a short-term measure, the ROK government might consider making a ROK-US joint operation plan for extended deterrence and relying on the state of the art conventional weapon system of the United States...

[현안분석] 동맹 결속변화의 비구조적 외생변수 추적: 중국·북한의 회색국가화 공세와 한미동맹의 디커플링

... the declining cohesion of the ROK-U.S. alliance. The worsening plight of the ROK-U.S. alliance springs from a non-structural exogenous variable, the-gray-state strategic offensive towards alliance decoupling. North Korea and China have taken offensives under the gray-state-oriented strategy while aiming at weakening the cohesion of an alliance in their opponents and then decoupling the alliance....

[현안분석] 하노이 북미 정상회담 이후 북중·한중 관계 변화와 한반도 평화체제 구축

... Korea and China has been recovered. However, North Korea's economic dependence on China has risen. South Korea should not only seek China's active role and cooperation by strengthening diplomatic and security cooperation with China, but also bring North Korea back to U.S.- North Korea denuclearization negotiation table by utilizing this restoration of North Korea- China relations. In conclusion...

[학술논문] Conditions for Achieving Strategic Integration between the U.S. and South Korea

...beyond the Korean peninsular. This study proposes the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the U.S. and South Korea’s position towards it, with the issue of establishing trilateral cooperation between the U.S., South Korea, and Japan, and the North Korean nuclear problem being the three factors that will determine the level of strategic integration of the ROK-U.S. alliance. Given these challenges, the article...

[학위논문] 후견국의 동맹 관리 딜레마 - 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인에 대한 연구 -

본 논문은 후견국으로서 중국의 대북한 동맹 관리를 분석하였고, 중국이 북한 비핵화의 목표를 달성하지 못한 원인을 중국의 낮은 협상력에서 찾았다. 동맹과 핵확산의 이론적 논의를 바탕으로 북중동맹의 사례를 비교 분석함으로써 가설을 검증하는 이론기반 사례연구 방법을 통해 이를 고찰하였다. 동맹 관리와 핵비확산 간의 관계를 다룬 이론에서 얻은 통찰력으로 본 논문은 북한의 대중국 군사적 의존도를 하나의 변수로 놓고, 중국의 대북한 이익 공약의 강도를 또 다른 하나의 변수로 간주하여 그 변수들간 결합이 중국의 대북한 협상력을 결정한다는 분석 틀을 제시하였다. 동맹 관리의 결과는 동맹국 간 상대적 협상력에 따라 결정한다. 이러한 틀 속에서 중국이 북한의 핵무기 개발을 저지하지 못한 원인을 설명하고자 했다.