[뉴스] The most significant ambassador jobs in Trump’s second term
...announced two of the highest-profile ambassador jobs — but many of the most significant ones are still to come.
While several foreign posts are important in any administration because the country is a close U.S. ally or a neighbor to an adversary, some ambassadorial jobs will take on heightened significance in Trump’s second term because of the incoming president’s existing relationship...
[뉴스] North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through IT Jobs Companies are unknowingly hiring North Koreans for hundreds of low-level jobs, giving Pyongyang access to cash and IP
WASHINGTON—When cybersecurity company KnowBe4 was filling a remote IT job in July, it hired a highly skilled applicant who gave his name as Kyle and spoke accented English. He asked the company to ship his company laptop to an address in Washington state.
[뉴스] The ‘Axis of Evil’ Is Overhyped
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in July, longtime U.S. intelligence official John McLaughlin described the threat posed by China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as “the distinguishing characteristic of our world right now.” McLaughlin, the former acting director of the CIA, warned that the United States’ adversaries had “formed a group” and were increasingly cooperating...
[뉴스] Friday Briefing: Will North Korea Attack?
Watching North Korea for signs of lethal military action
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/north-korea-war-kim.html" title="">could take some form of lethal military action against South Koreaa> in the coming months after having shifted his policy to one of open hostility, U.S. officials say.
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...셋째, 7월 15일 「동아시아에서 떠오르는 이중 핵 위협(A Rising Nuclear Double Threat in East Asia)」이라는 워게임 보고서가 국내 언론을 통해 기사화되었다. 이 보고서는 두 가지 상황을 상정했다. 하나는 북한의 서해 도발이 확전되면서 북한이 전술핵무기를 사용했을 때이고, 다른 하나는 중국의 대만침공 시점에 북한이 전술핵무기를 사용했을 때이다. 보고서는 두 가지 상황 모두에서 핵전쟁을 우려한 미국이 북한에 핵보복을 하지 않는다고 결론을 내렸다. 곧이어 주한미군을 1만 명 수준으로 감축해야 한다고 주장하는 「미국의 이익에 부합하는 글로벌 군사 태세(Aligning Global Military Posture with U.S. interests)」라는 보고서가 기사화되었다. 이 보고서의...
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...David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily...
[학술논문] Balance-of-Fear Theory and Korea-Japan-U.S. Relations, 1945-1953
...allies. Each state’s main incentive for supporting (or increasing commitment to) the alignment partner(s) can be abandonment fear (or fear of deterrence failure) while each state’s main incentive for defecting from (or decreasing commitment to) the alignment partner(s) can be entrapment fear (or fear of losing autonomy). For instance, during the Cold War period the U.S. concern for Korea and...
[학술논문] 반환미군기지 기능별 토양오염특성에 관한 연구
There are U.S. troops with a force about 290,000 strong stationed all around the world, approximately 150 countries. Among the troops, USFK has performed principal part with its stationing for 50 years against the military threat of North Korea. However, as a result of an investigation made into environmental contamination of several bases which were restituted from US to ROK by the Land Partnership...
[학술논문] Alliance Theory and Northeast Asia: Challenges on the 60th Anniversary of the Korea-U.S. Alliance
... The problem, however, is that while the Korea-U.S. alliance has evolved into a relationship that encompasses economic, social and cultural cooperation in the post-Cold War period, South Korea’s core security interest—the improvement of inter-Korean relations and the realization of peace on the Korean Peninsula—cannot be attained. This is because the strengthening of Korea-U.S. military...
[학술논문] A Study on the U.S.A’s Evolving Policy and Possible Interactions of the U.S.A - China in the Korean Unification Process
최근 오마바 정부의 북한정권에 대한 ‘전략적 인내정책’은 한반도의통일정책 범주 내에서 바라보면 실질적으로 상당한 인식의 변화를 동반하고 있음을 엿볼수 있다. 즉 한반도의 분단상황이라는 시각에서 보면 이는 분단의 ‘평화적 관리’를 넘어 장차 ‘통일한국’에 적합한 통일정책으로 수정한 것이다. 한반도에서 통일과정이나 통일후의 주변국들의이해관계가 첨예하게 얽혀 있기 때문에 이 정책은 이명박 정부시기의한반도의 ‘분할관리’ 정책에서 ‘통일준비’라는 전략적 패러다임의 변화를 추구함으로서 통일정책을 구상하고 추진하는데 강력한 영향을 미쳤다. 한국과 미국간의 새로운 통일정책에 대한 공동인식은 북한정권의비핵화와 호전적인
[학술논문] China-U.S. Relations and the Security of the Korean Peninsula
... on the effects of North Korea’s latest nuclear test in February 2013 on their respective interests and attitudes. In conclusion, the authors offer some practical approaches that might be jointly implemented by China and the United States in their handling of Korea-related issues. The authors argue that, despite the complexities of China-U.S. bilateral relations and some potential sources of...