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South and North Korea Studies
- Added April 28, 2008
- Type: Student (Carlisle) Papers
- Prospects from Korean Unification. Authored by Colonel, Australian Army David Coghlan.
- For a number of reasons, many of which are self-induced, the United States is in danger of losing, or may have already lost, the strategic initiative in Korea to the People's Republic of China. Given time, the ramifications of ceding the initiative to China may result in a unified Korea tilted toward Beijing.
- Added March 24, 2008
- Type: Monograph
- Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Regime. Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
- The author explores the future of the regime of Kim Jong Il, constructs a number of scenarios, and then identifies the most plausible one.
- Added February 25, 2008
- Type: Monograph
- The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program. Authored by Dr. Daniel A. Pinkston.
- North Korea has never officially abandoned its objective of “completing the revolution in the south” and has continued an alarming military buildup. The ballistic missile inventory now totals about 800 road-mobile missiles, including about 200 Nodong missiles that could strike Japan.
- Added November 23, 2007
- Type: Monograph
- East Asian Security: Two Views. Authored by Dr. Gilbert Rozman, Dr. Chu Shulong.
- The February 13, 2007 Joint Agreement accelerates multilateralism to which all states of Northeast Asia must adjust. The United States needs a regional strategy to prepare for the high stakes in the end game of the nuclear crisis.
- Added April 30, 2007
- Type: Monograph
- North Korean Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War World. Authored by Dr. Samuel S. Kim.
- North Korea’s foreign relations are a blend of contradiction and complexity. They start from the incongruity between Pyongyang’s highly touted policy of juche, or self-reliance, and North Korea’s extended and heavy reliance on foreign aid and assistance over the 6 decades of its existence.
- Added April 27, 2007
- Type: Monograph
- North Korea's Military Threat: Pyongyang's Conventional Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Ballistic Missiles. Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Captain USN John M Sanford.
- Although North Korea remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world’s largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special operations soldiers, the size of its submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its arsenal, or its substantial Weapons of Mass Destruction programs, Pyongyang is a major military power. North Korea’s latest act to demonstrate its might was the nuclear test on October 9, 2006.