[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, could take some form of lethal military action against South Korea in the coming months after having shifted his policy to one of open hostility, U.S. officials say.
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...명 수준으로 감축해야 한다고 주장하는 「미국의 이익에 부합하는 글로벌 군사 태세(Aligning Global Military Posture with U.S. interests)」라는 보고서가 기사화되었다. 이 보고서의 핵심은 대만 유사시 주한미군이 신속히 투입될 수 있어야 하며, 중국과 북한의 선제타격에 노출되지 않도록 주한미군을 감축해서 일본이나 괌으로 재배치해야 한다는 것이다. 그런데 보고서 작성자 중 한 명은 2월 25일 Foreign Affairs에 기고한 논문인 “대만 집착: 미국의 전략은 이길 수 없는 전쟁에 의존해서는 안 된다(The Taiwan Fixation: American Strategy Shouldn’t Hinge on an Unwinable War)”에서...
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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] Analysis of the Causes of South Korea’s Foreign Policy Change -Analysis Based on the Foreign Policy Change Theory-
...the Moon and Yoon governments, suggesting that it is the interpretation of public opinion by the chief policymaker that matters more than public opinion. The translation of opinion into policy is what shifted dramatically between the Moon and Yoon administrations. Furthermore, President Yoon’s reinterpretation of South Korea’s top national interest – ensuring South Korea’s...
[학술논문] 鳩山政権の『東アジア共同体』構想
... balance between the foreign policy toward Asia and the foreign policy toward the U.S. has been the key subject on the foreign policy of Japan, for the long time. Japan had suggested many conceptions of the foreign policy in the past. For example, ‘An Arc of Freedom and Prosperity’(PM Taro ASO), ‘The Synergy between the Japan‐U.S. alliance and Japanese Diplomacy toward Asia’(PM...
[학술논문] U.S. Northeast Asia Policy: Revitalizing Alliances and Preserving Peace on the Peninsula
...Russia, and the U.S.), discussing how this Korean Peninsula denuclearization process both informs and impacts U.S. attitudes toward broader regional security cooperation. One central conclusion is that the current primary role of Northeast Asia regional cooperation, as manifested in the Six-Party Talks and from a U.S. perspective, is more to deal with (and balance) bilateral issues – U.S.-DPRK denuclearization...
[학술논문] 1970년대 초 남북대화의 종합적 분석 ―남북관계와 미중관계, 남북한 내부 정치의 교차점에서―
...East Asia, U.S.-PRC rapprochement, with their own initiative and purpose. In this context, inter-Korean talks could have some linkage with U.S.-PRC relations at the time. Even though two Koreas' governments started inter-Korean talks to react to the international change, two leaderships in North-South Koreas also utilized inter-Korean talks for internal politics. Park Chung-hee in the South built...
[학술논문] HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMMING IN THE DPRK, 1996 TO 2009: THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS
...partially addressed. The article explores various,possibly overlapping, explanations for U.S.-DPRK disagreement over monitoring protocols, such as different expectations and cultural learning curves. It concludes with recommendations for the U.S. government to explore food-security programming in the DPRK and to reconsider the laws and theories guiding U.S. aid to countries with which the United States does...