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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"North Korea"”.
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North Korea: Resolving the Threat
North Korea presently represents one of the gravest threats to international security and to United States national interests. North Korea has been pursuing a nuclear weapons capability and is nearing the ability to amass a militarily significant stockpile. Concurrently, North Korea has developed …
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"Who needs MacArthur?" : analyzing South Korea's counterinvasion capability against North Korea
Assuming there is another North Korean invasion; could the South Koreans counterinvade North Korea and prevail even without the United States' assistance? This paper studies the possibility of a South Korean counterinvasion against North Korea by looking at the qualitative combat dynamics and …
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NORTH KOREA, THE LEFT, AND THE RIGHT: FREEDOMS RESTRICTIONS IN SOUTH KOREA
How has the existence of North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) reduced freedoms in democratic South Korea (Republic of Korea)? Exploring what effect the North has had on freedoms in the South post-democratization, and the association between the threat from North Korea, whether the …
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North Korea: Transport and Logistics Scenarios and South Korean Enterprises' Location Decisions
North Korea is one of the world’s last remaining communist countries. Insistence on self-sufficiency has resulted in the stagnation of its economy and collapse of its transport distribution system. This research project examines how various scenarios for North Korea and the implications of South …
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Creating the Leader-centred Modernity: the birth of the successor in North Korea
… succession in the professedly socialist state of North Korea. Against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the general disillusionment with socialist ideals, I examine how North Korea self-consciously bypassed the transience of the charisma of the leader predicted by Max Weber. …
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North Korea through the Lens of Unification: Regime Legitimacy and Survival, 1980-1988
… investigates the nature and motivations behind North Korea’s efforts toward Korean unification from 1980 to 1988. Previous studies, limited by insufficient primary sources revealing the DPRK regime’s actions, relied primarily on official policy statements and concluded that Pyongyang had lost …
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Life and Seoul of the Party: South Korea’s Brief Occupation under Communist North Korea
This thesis analyzes the North Korean occupation of Seoul through the oral histories of the men and women who experienced the event. At the beginning of the Korean War, North Korean forces successfully captured and held the South Korean capital for three months. Despite the occupation’s interesting …
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Explaining Depravity through the Looking Glass: Political Prison Camps, North Korea, and Waltz's Three Images
<p>The political prison camps of North Korea are blatant violations of human rights within the state. They have recently received international attention within the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council. This paper examines these political prison camps through …
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Being Better at Doing Good: Organizational Engagement and Foreign Management Practices in DPR (North) Korea
Foreign organizations work in DPR Korea under multiple external and internal pressures, and these organizations try to respond to their working environment in their own ways. However, it is important that these foreign organizations are able to work effectively, in order for engagement with DPRK to …
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Examining the Six-Party Talks Process on North Korea: Dynamic Interactions among the Principal States
… principal states involved in nuclear talks on North Korea known as the Six-Party Talks (SPT). Despite the failure in achieving a primary objective of denuclearizing North Korea, the SPT were believed to provide interesting and informative cases to investigate dynamic interactions among states …
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Securing the Korean Peninsula with an Armed Nuclear North Korea: Identifying Pathways by Examining Past and Current Negotiations
The United States has been at war with North Korea since 1950, although hostilities have been on hold on the peninsula since July 27, 1953. Despite the cessation of active hostilities, the tensions on the Korean Peninsula increased in recent years when North Korea developed nuclear weapons. …
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Contemporary China-North Korea Bilateral Security Relations: Establishing the Role of Power and Ideas in Foreign Policy Decision-making
… toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). In contrast to existing studies that isolate state identity, security, or economic considerations in China’s decision-making, this thesis asserts Beijing’s North Korea policy is best understood by synthesizing realist …
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Strategic deferment: A study of the rogue state, status quo state relationship with a focus on the United States and North Korea
… a whole, overlooked rogue states, and especially North Korea. In the first half of this paper, I present a game-theoretic model that demonstrates the differences between how a rogue state acts with and without nuclear weapons. The second half of this paper is a case study focusing on North Korea, …
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Nuclear Proliferation: Assessment of the Nuclear Capabilities to the Year 2000 Among Selected Nth Countries--India, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea
… selected countries -- India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea -- that are considered candidates for nuclear proliferation. While these countries represent immediate challenges to U.S. non-proliferation goals, each one is at a different stage of nuclear development and each has its own peculiar …
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The Korean Peninsula: Perspectives on War and Proliferation
The Korean Peninsula is one of the last vestiges of the Cold War. It remains the setting for another war, and North Korea remains a source of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Currently South Korea continues its transformation to a free-market, democratic and open …
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The Responses of South Korean Presidents Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun toward North Korean Threats (1998-2006): A Comparative Case Study Analysis
There has been a long history of violence between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and North Korea is still a current threat to the South due to their missile launches and naval clashes. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the interactions between North and South …
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An assessment of North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities
In February of 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test. Speculations are that this test was conducted to further develop a warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile. This test further strained North Korea's relationship with the international community. …
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Individual and Collective Diaspora Remittances in the Philippines and Korea: An Interpretation of Narrative Identity, Communicative Action, and Recognition
… remittances supporting reunification of Korea with the intention of providing financial support for sustainable living and community projects. The research analyzes the narratives with reference to identity and culture of diaspora Filipinos and Koreans in the United States who are …
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The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States
… and develop nuclear weapons. In particular, North Korea's unrestricted development of nuclear weapons and Iran's continuing assertion of its 'inalienable right' to pursue peaceful nuclear activities in defiance of a number of UN Security Council resolutions have posed fundamental challenges …
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