 EAI Commentary No.20
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Only nine months after the visits in May and August of 2010, Kim Jong-il yet again made an unofficial visit to China on May 20, 2011. Although it is uncommon for three visits to take place within the span of a year, there exists some precedent for this within the history of China-North Korea relations. Before and after the Korean War in 1950, Kim Il-sung visited China three times consecutively. In 1964 as the Sino-Soviet split was intensifying, it is said that five meetings took place in both Beijing and Pyongyang. Both times were strategically critical moments within China-North Korea relations.
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| EAI Asia Security Initiative Working Paper 17
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This paper examines the structural weakness of Sun-Goon(military-first) Politics as North Korea's military strategy and seeks to show a new strategy of transformation in North Korea's military affairs. It is a strategy that transforms North Korea's internal and external structures simultaneously. The North Korean problem can neither be solved by the changes in North Korea's external environment, nor by its own efforts for political and economic reform. The North Korean problem will be able to be resolved only when North Korea makes a strategic decision to give up its nuclear weapons and pursue political and economic reform while international society guarantees and supports its security and development. The essence of the strategy lies in how to resolve the Sun-Goon dilemma of oversecurity and surplus military affairs.
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