[학술논문] 한반도 신뢰프로세스가 성공하려면: 국방안보 관점에서
The ROK-US summit, held in Washington between Presidents Park Geun-Hye and Barack Obama on May 7th this year, has produced significant implications for future handling of North Korean issues by the Park administration. Above all, the two leaders agreed upon that North Korea’s nuclear program must be halted and its nuclear-weapon-state status should not be recognized. President Obama offered...
[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...
[학술논문] Who Takes North Korea Seriously? U.S. Congress and Policy toward Pyongyang, 2009–2012
...measures during the 111th and 112th U.S. Congress (2009–2012) and identifies the sources of legislative activism toward Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons threats and atrocious human rights records. Empirical analyses show that a group of congressional members use bill cosponsorship strategies and call on the Obama administration to revamp its policy concerning North Korea. The findings shed light...
[학술논문] 격동의 동아시아: 박근혜 정부 대외정책의 과제
...reunification. The ROK government should pro-actively initiate to the Obama Administration collaborating measures to inspire changes in North Korean society. The ROK and the U.S. should promote strategic talks with the Xi Jinping leadership, leading it to consider alternative approaches to the North Korean nuclear issue and a future unified Korea. The tumult in East Asia is another challenge for the Park Geun-Hye...
[학술논문] 박근혜정부의 대중국정책과 한중관계의 과제
...the beginning of the Obama Administration. As the two most influential and powerful countries in the world, there have been increasingly strong suggestions within American political circles of creating a G2 relationship where the United States and China would work out solutions to global problems together. One possible reason for the G-2 to possibly be created is to prevent another Cold War. The informal...