Pyongyang’s missile tests and Seoul’s response

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)

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on August 3, 2006 at 2:48 am, filed under Inter-Korean Issues, North Korea, South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. TheBDF your flag
    Posted August 3, 2006 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    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 your flag
    Posted August 3, 2006 at 10:28 am | Permalink

    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?

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