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• President Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Background, Assessment and Meaning IN Nam-sik Upload Date 2025-10-28 Hits 4036

  1. Backdrop of President Trump's Engagement 
  2. Assessment of Trump's Gaza Initiative
  3. Viability of the Proposal

  #GazaConflict #PresidentTrump
• Diplomatic Evaluation of S. Korea as Globally Responsible Power at UNGA 80 BAN Kiljoo Upload Date 2025-10-24 Hits 3363

  1. Introduction
  2. Launch of UNGA 80 amidst Crises
  3. Identification of Korean Diplomacy's Opportunity Elements at UNGA 80
  4. Diplomatic Evaluation of Korea as a Globally Responsible Power at UNGA 80
  5. Future Tasks and Policy Suggestions

  #UNSC #UNGA80 #GloballyResponsible #DiplomaticStrategy #DPRKNuclearProgram
• North Korea’s Parade Politics: Pyongyang’s Strategic Calculations and Policy Implications from the WPK’s 80th Anniversary Celebrations BAN Kil Joo Upload Date 2025-10-23 Hits 2772

  1. Introduction 
  2. Analyzing the Politics of Military Parades in the Kim Jong Un Era
  3. Characteristics and Strategic Calculations of Parade Politics Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) 
  4. Policy Implications

  #NorthKorea #HyperStrategy #MilitaryParade #WPK80thAnniversary #DPRKChinaRussia #Hwasong20
• Significance and Key Discussions of the 2025 World Emerging Security Forum: Emerging Technologies and Rising Hybrid Threats SONG Tae-Eun Upload Date 2025-09-29 Hits 10682

  1. 2025 World Emerging Security Forum: First International Conference on “Hybrid Threats” in the Indo-Pacific
  2. Hybrid Threats: Stealthy, Global Challenges
  3. Cognitive Warfare: Hacking and Manipulating the Human Mind
  4. Perpetual Security Threats from Emerging Technologies and Sabotage of Critical Infrastructure
  5. Significance and Implications

  #AI #CyberAttacks #HybridWarfare #HybridThreats #EmergingThreats #WESF
• Assessment of the August Korea-Japan Summit and Challenges for Japan Policy JO Yanghyeon Upload Date 2025-09-26 Hits 7882

  1. Implications and Key Points of the Korea-Japan Summit 2025
  2. Assessments and Challenges
  3. Response Measures.

  #Ishiba #ROKJapanSummit #JapanPolicy #KoreaJapanRelations
• Economic Security Implications of the US AI Action Plan YOO Ji Yeong Upload Date 2025-09-17 Hits 10044

  1. The US AI Action Plan and the Three Executive Orders
  2. Key Points of the US AI Action Plan from an Economic Security Perspective
  3. Economic Security Challenges for South Korea

  #China #US #AI #EconomicSecurity #SouthKorea
• Seoul’s New Government Prioritizes ASEAN and Southeast Asia CHOE Wongi Upload Date 2025-08-27 Hits 15020
  #ASEAN #Cooperation #ASEANKorea #ROK #SoutheastAsia
• Strategic Implications from the July Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting: Prospects for Indo-Pacific Cooperation under the Second Trump Administration CHO Won Deuk Upload Date 2025-08-25 Hits 11090

  1. Introduction   
  2. Major Developments and Assessment
  3. Policy Implications

  #Trump #Quad #IndoPacific #SouthChinaSea #CriticalMinerals
• North Korea’s Politics of Troop Deployment and Hyper-strategy BAN Kil Joo Upload Date 2025-08-01 Hits 14744

  1. Introduction
  2. Diagnosing North Korea’s Politics of Troop Deployment
  3. North Korea’s Troop Deployment and Hyper-strategy
  4. Diplomatic and Security Implications

  #NorthKorea #HyperStrategy #TroopDeployment #TaiwanContingency #NewColdWar
• Prospects for North Korea-U.S. Relations and Nuclear Talks MIN Jeonghun Upload Date 2025-07-28 Hits 13642

  1. An Outlook for Relationship between North Korea and the U.S.: Revitalization of North Korea-U.S. Summit Diplomacy 
  2. An Outlook for North Korean Nuclear Talks: Realistic Control through ‘Simultaneous and Parallel’ Approaches
  3. Policy Considerations

  #DPRKUSTalks #TrumpDiplomacy #PhasedDenuke #NuclearSmalldeal #KoreanMediation