Dealing with North Korean Provocations: A Chinese Perspective
For a variety of reasons, North Korea at times behaves in a provocative fashion. This chapter starts with a discussion of the concept of provocation…
Defense Cooperation Among Japan, the United States, and the ROK: Dealing with the DPRK
This chapter is about how Japan prepares to respond to provocations from North Korea. As background factors, we need to consider how Japan is altering…
Reinforcing Deterrence: The U.S. Military Response to North Korean Provocations
When speaking to a Korean audience, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) invariably inserts the Korean phrase katchi kapshida ( 같이 갑시다), “we go…
A South Korean Perspective on Dealing with North Korean Provocations: Challenges and Opportunities
Despite President Park Geun-hye’s efforts to improve inter-Korean relations, Kim Jongun’s North Korea has never shown any willingness to give up its nuclear ambitions and…
Introduction | Dealing with North Korean Provocations
Provocations by North Korea can take various forms: weapons tests, acts of direct violence, cyber attacks, threatening force buildups, etc. Individually and as a group,…
South Korea’s Development Assistance and Economic Outreach Toward Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the region where Japan has been most deeply engaged in the postwar era. Japan has provided over half of its official development…
Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP)
Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP), launched in 2004, is a policy-oriented development cooperation program in which Korea shares its development experience and knowledge to support…
Introduction | Developmental Assistance by South Korea and Japan
The states of Southeast Asia are on the front lines of competition not only in regard to the balance of military and political power, as…
Japanese National Identity and the Search for Realism Toward North Korea and Russia
North Korea and Russia are seen as posing an increasingly dangerous military threat as we enter 2015, and the responses of other states to them…
Ethnic Brothers or Migrants: North Korean Defectors in South Korea
Over the past sixty years, the two Koreas have embarked on completely different paths in almost every respect. One developed into a successful example of…