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Terence Roehrig, "North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Motivations, Strategy, and Doctrine"
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- Hahm Chaibong
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- 13-05-20 15:00
In a presentation titled, “North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Motivation, Strategy, and Doctrine,” Prof. Roehrig discussed the role of nuclear weapons in North Korean security calculations. Also, using deterrence theory, he examined possible directions for North Korea’s nuclear weapons strategies and doctrine.
Dr. Terence Roehrig is a Professor in National Security Affairs and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He is also a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom. He is the author of two forthcoming books: Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Extended Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World (Columbia University Press) and South Korea's Rise in World Affairs: Power, Economic Development and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press) and coauthored with Uk Heo. In addition, he is a coauthor of South Korea since 1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) with Uk Heo, the author of two books, From Deterrence to Engagement: The U.S. Defense Commitment to South Korea (Lexington, 2006) and The Prosecution of Former Military Leaders in Newly Democratic Nations: The Cases of Argentina, Greece, and South Korea (McFarland, 2002) along with a monograph, Korean Dispute Over the Northern Limit Line: Security, Economics, or International Law? (University of Maryland Law School, 2008), and is the coeditor of The Survival of North Korea(McFarland, 2011) and Korean Security in a Changing East Asia (Praeger 2007). He has published articles and book chapters on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Korean and East Asian security issues, the U.S.-South Korea alliance, the Northern Limit Line dispute, the South Korean Navy, deterrence, human rights, and transitional justice. He has published in the journals, Asian Politics and Policy, Asian Affairs, Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Korean Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Korea Observer, North Korean Review, Pacific Focus, and World Affairs. Dr. Roehrig received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MA in political science from Marquette University, and is a past President of the Association of Korean Political Studies.
Date/Time: Monday, May 20, 2013 / 10:30-13:00
Place: Conference Room 2F, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Hahm Chaibong
President
Dr. HAHM Chaibong is the president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Dr. Hahm is the author of numerous books and articles, including “China’s Future is South Korea’s Present,” Foreign Affairs, (Sep/Oct 2018), Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi (Becoming Korean), Vols. I, II, (Asan Academy, 2017), “Keeping Northeast Asia ‘Abnormal’: Origins of the Liberal International Order in Northeast Asia and the New Cold War,” Asan Forum (Sep., 2017), “South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (Jul., 2008), “The Two South Koreas: A House Divided,” The Washington Quarterly (Jun., 2005), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited with Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Woo Jung-Yeop
Research Fellow
Dr. Woo Jung-Yeop is a research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, Dr. Woo was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California and also an Associate Analyst for Gallup Korea and the Korea Research Company. Dr. Woo’s research focuses on foreign military intervention in civil wars and the relationship between foreign policy-making and public opinion. Dr. Woo received a B.A. from Seoul National University, M.P.P. from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Kim Chong Woo
Senior Fellow
Dr. KIM Chong Woo is a senior fellow of the Center for Quantitative Research at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, Dr. Kim was an analyst working on choice modeling and valuation at RAND Europe. He was also a senior TCAD engineer at the Samsung Semiconductor Research and Development Center and a Java application developer at PCMS-Datafit in the United Kingdom. Dr. Kim's research includes the estimation and application of discrete choice modeling, stated preference analysis, valuing public services and non-market goods; and SP model development in the transport, health, communication and utilities sector. His publications include "Security at What Cost? Quantifying Individuals’ Trade-offs between Privacy, Liberty and Security,” RAND Report (2010) and “Modeling Demand for Long-Distance Travelers in Great Britain: Stated preference surveys to support the modeling of demand for high speed rail”, RAND Report (2011). Dr. Kim received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of London and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.