Abstract Two factors such as nuclear weapons and Military First system have been supporting Kim Jong-il’s administration. By estimating where two factors will go, we…
Country or Region: North Korea
Abstract The Korean peninsula is crucial to China’s political, economic and security interests because of a combination of geographic, historical, and political circumstances. China’s economic…
Abstract A peace regime in the Korean peninsula has been a largely unfamiliar issue among U.S. policy makers until recently. Remarks on a Korean peace…
Abstract Japan’s reemergence as a “normal” military power has been accelerated by the “super-sizing” of North Korea: a product of the North’s extant military threat, multiplied…
Abstract Following North Korea’s second nuclear test, the U.N. Security Council tightened sanctions. However, North Korea has tilted its relations toward partners uninterested in such measures. Since 2005, it…
Abstract Two nuclear crises recently haunted the Korean peninsula, one in 1993/4, the other in 2002/3. In each case the events were strikingly similar: North…
Summary In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal…
Abstract The summit meeting between the two Korean heads of state, which took place in Pyongyang in June 2000, constitutes a major turning point in…
Abstract Northeast Asia is a nuclear tinderbox that could easily be set off, given rising regional tensions, widespread nuclear power capabilities, and the absence of…
Summary Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean…
Abstract Victor Cha of Georgetown University explains why President George W. Bush should continue U.S. engagement with North Korea, contrary to the opinion of hard-liners…
Summary Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, and the recent…
Abstract China criticized North Korea’s nuclear test in 2006, but Beijing refused to condemn Pyongyang’s provocations in 2010. When will China punish North Korea’s belligerence?…
Abstract Russia had two objectives in its relationship with North Korea. One was denuclearization and the other was to promote influence on the Korean Peninsula to…
Abstract Since the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework in 2002, the Bush administration has failed to restrain North Korea’s nuclear weapons ambitions, principally because of…
