Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies
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Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012About Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies
For over twenty years, KEI has sponsored annual major academic symposiums at universities across the country and major academic conferences. Each year, papers are specially commissioned to fit panel topics of current policy relevance to the U.S.-ROK alliance and implications for the Korean peninsula. Following the symposium, KEI edits and publishes those papers in an annual volume entitled “Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies.”
Author: Stephen Blank, Andrew Scobell, Narushige Michshita, Taeho Kim
Region: Asia
Theme: Inter-Korean, Security
Location: Korea, North, Korea, South, Russian Federation, Japan, China
Published June 12, 2012
Download PDFNorth Korea poses the most serious security challenges for South Korea and Japan that they have faced in many decades as well as formidable challenges for the United States, and it is prompting China and Russia to reassess security concerns in a changing regional framework. The chapters in Part 2 cover these challenges from the separate perspectives of four front-line states. After the North’s aggressiveness in 2010 and the interlude in 2011 as Kim Jong-il exercised more restraint in return for much increased assistance from China and in the process of positioning his son, Kim Jong-un, to step into his shoes, the countries most concerned are preparing for security issues again to rise to the forefront. Their views on how to manage security on the peninsula offer a snapshot of a region gearing for an uncertain transition.
This section contains the following chapters:
- The View from China
Andrew Scobell, RAND Corporation - The View from Russia
Stephen Blank, U.S. Army War College - Japanese Security Strategy and the Korean Peninsula
Michishita Narushige,National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan - The View from South Korea
Taeho Kim, Hallym University