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A Real Deal or a Political Masquerade? The North Korean Nuclear Question Revisited

In less than a year, the fate of the six-party talks has swung around from the lowest ebb when North Korea conducted its nuclear test...

Lee Jung-hoon

May 25, 2011

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Korea’s Domestic Base for Alliance with the United States

The past decade in the Korea-U.S. alliance relationship has not been smooth. Since the late 1990s, Koreans have been raising issues related to the past...

Lee Sook-Jong

May 25, 2011

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The North Korean Nuclear Program and Peace Process

The history of the first of North Korea’s nuclear proliferation crises has received considerable attention and analysis. The regional implications of a nuclear North Korea...

Scott Snyder

May 25, 2011

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The North Korean Nuclear Program and Peace Process: Past, Present, and Future

Kim Byungki

May 25, 2011

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U.S. and ROK Strategic Doctrines and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

The year 2006 witnessed increasing concern among both Americans and South Koreans that their alliance of more than 50 years might be in jeopardy. Differences...

David Straub

May 25, 2011

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Changing Dynamics of the North Korean System

North Korea has recently shown signs of rapprochement with the outside world by agreeing to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula at the six-party talks....

Paik Haksoon

May 25, 2011

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Engagement on the Margins: Capacity Building in North Korea

The year 2008 saw a reversal of a long-lasting policy constellation in the international community visà- vis the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)....

Bernhard Seliger

May 25, 2011

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North Korea’s External Resources and Constraints

During the 1972 U.S. presidential campaign, “Deep Throat,” later revealed to be Associate Director Mark Felt of the FBI, counseled Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward...

Marcus Noland

May 25, 2011

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Preparing for Change in North Korea: Shifting Out of Neutral

This study was undertaken to assess possible futures for the North Korean regime and the Korean peninsula that could affect U.S. and regional interests, and...

Michael J. Mazarr

April 1, 2011

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China-ROK Trade Disputes and Implications for Managing Security Relations

This paper compares Sino–South Korean management of bilateral economic and political tensions; it argues that China’s WTO entry has provided an external institutional framework for...

Scott Snyder

September 25, 2010

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North Korea, Libya, and Iran: Economic Sanctions and Nuclear Proliferation

On 19 December 2003, the leader of Libya, Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi, shocked the world by abruptly stating that his country was renouncing its attempts to...

Randall Newnham

September 25, 2010

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The Republic of Korea and the Middle East: Economics, Diplomacy, and Security

South Korean–Middle Eastern relations have been neglected in the literature throughout the years, mainly owing to the focus on Korea’s relations with the United States...

Alon Levkowitz

August 25, 2010

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Maintaining a Rogue Regime: Kim Jong-il and the North Korean Succession Process

In Northeast Asia and the United States during the later months of 2008 a great deal of attention was paid to the health of Kim...

Bruce Bechtol

July 29, 2009

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Ploughshares into Swords: Economic Implications of South Korean Military Spending

South Korea is currently engaged, once again, in a large-scale, expensive modernization of its military that aims to provide the country with a more robust...

John Feffer

February 2, 2009

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The King from the East: DPRK-Syria-Iran Nuclear Nexus and Strategic Implications for Israel and the ROK

In the field of international security, few connections have been made between the Korean peninsula with the Middle East. Traditional regional studies literature focuses on...

Christina Y. Lin

October 25, 2008

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