East Asian Regionalization and North Korea: From Confrontation to Cooperation

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Frank
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
East Asian

Innocent Passage of Warships

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Duc Ton
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
North Korea ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Coastal State ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (losc) is well known as the “Constitution for the Oceans”; however, the passage of foreign warships through the territorial sea of a coastal State is not clearly addressed. All East Asian littoral States (except North Korea and Cambodia) are parties to the losc but their practices regarding the innocent passage of warships are different. This article provides an analysis of the innocent passage regime of the losc, the practice of East Asian littoral States regarding the innocent passage of warships as well as factors that have influenced the trends in their practices.

Why Nuclear? Explaining North Korea’s Strategic Choice of Going Nuclear and Its Implications for East Asian Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097133
Author(s):  
Min-hyung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Research Question ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Asian Security ◽  
East Asian Security ◽  
Regime Survival

This article seeks to provide a theoretically compelling account for North Korea’s strategic choice to go nuclear and explores its implications for East Asian security. Its main research question is as follows: despite the obvious risks of going nuclear, what makes North Korea so desperate in its pursuit of nuclear capabilities? Contrary to the extant accounts that only emphasize either nonsecurity variables or an “external security” factor, this article conceptualizes North Korea’s security considerations as “regime survival” and explains its strategic choice from it. The central thesis of this article is that North Korea’s decision to go nuclear is a strategic choice, of which the purpose is to achieve its goals of safeguarding independence from external powers as well as ensuring regime security. North Korea pursues nuclear weapons because they not only protect Pyongyang’s regime from foreign aggressions but also help to consolidate Kim Jong-un’s domestic power. North Korea also seeks nuclear weapons in order to safeguard its independence and autonomy from China because the removal of China’s influence is critical to ensuring its regime survival in the long run. North Korea’s strategic choice to go nuclear and its emergence as a de facto nuclear power have significant implications for East Asian security.

Korea: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Seth
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
North Korea ◽  
World History ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
China And Japan

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest. Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region. It considers what it means to be Korean, and analyses how the various peoples of the Korean peninsula became one of the world’s most homogeneous nations, before exploring how this nation evolved, in a single lifetime, into today’s sharply contrasting societies of North Korea and South Korea. It also discusses how Korea fits into the larger narrative of both East Asian and world history, economically, politically, and socially.

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