Pyongyang’s missile tests and Seoul’s response

by Robert Koehler on August 3, 2006

Here’s a paper by IFES professor Yang Moo-jin on, well, North Korea’s missile tests and Seoul’s response (.pdf format). Enjoy.

(HT to reader)

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 TheBDF August 3, 2006 at 6:41 am: Booooo for linking to a .pdf that took 2 minutes to open on my workstation. Booo!

And boooo to me for not checking before I clicked.
2 Gray Hat August 3, 2006 at 10:28 am: As I read it, the professor’s core position (or the one he wishes his readers to adopt) resembles a religious commitment: no conceivable event, not even the most hypothetical and extreme, could lead him to regard NK as a dangerous enemy. He would take such an event as something akin to a test of faith.

> The more difficult the situation, the more inter-Korean
> relations have to be maintained.

There are indications that the professor is being deceptive: while his rhetoric intones “the South Korean government has to take clear and decisive steps in response…,” his concrete recommendations only **rule out** possible responses.

So I’m curious: who is he, and what power center does he serve?