USAHEC: Indo-Pacific: Japan and the Korean Peninsula

“Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea” by Dr. Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Call Number: Root Hall DS918 .J34 2013
(New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)

2nd Annual Atlantic Council-Korea Foundation Forum

Atlantic Council. March 5, 2019, streaming video, 3:55:55. "The Atlantic Council and Korea Foundation's annual forum brings officials and senior experts from the United States and Republic of Korea to develop forward-looking recommendations on priority issues for the US-ROK security alliance and economic partnership, while addressing the long-term vision for the future of the relationship. This year's forum, in the immediate aftermath of the second Trump-Kim summit, will access the results of the Hanoi summit and explore the path forward for the denuclearized and peaceful Korean peninsula."

'South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers' by Scott A. Snyder

South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott A. Snyder
Call Number: Root Hall DS917.37 .S58 2018
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018)

Our Greater Alliance, Making Peace: A Conversation With President Moon Jae-in

"The Impossible State: North Korea" Podcast from the Center for Strategic and International Studies

"The Impossible State: North Korea" Podcast from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
"North Korea is the Impossible State. Each week join the people who know the most about North Korea—The Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Victor Cha, Mike Green, and Sue Mi Terry—for an insiders discussion with host H. Andrew Schwartz about the United States’ top national security priority."

North Korea's Medium-Range Missiles

North Korea's Secret Missile Operating Bases

"Denuclearization" in North Korea

Implications of the U.S.-North Korea Summit

U.S.-North Korea Relations: Any Progress on Nonproliferation Efforts?

The Future of U.S.-North Korea Relations

Lecture of Opportunity | Narushige Michishita: The History of North Korea’s Brinkmanship Diplomacy

Is U.S.-North Korea Normalization Possible? A Russian Perspective

Most Recent Annual Reports to the US Congress about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Office of the Secretary of Defense. (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 2018).
"North Korea’s primary strategic goal is perpetual Kim family rule via the simultaneous development of its economy and nuclear weapons program – a two-pronged policy known as byungjin. Pyongyang portrays nuclear weapons as its most effective way to deter the threat from the United States. However, regime propaganda began emphasizing 'final victory' over the United States and Republic of Korea (ROK) in 2017, suggesting Kim Jong Un has larger ambitions, including use of nuclear weapons to deter interference if it attempts to reunify the Korean Peninsula. Internally, the regime seeks to maintain control over a populace that is decreasingly reliant on it, and Kim Jong Un has embraced coercive measures such as purges and public executions to quell dissent. Regionally, the North has been willing to accept a decline in relations, including with its main benefactor China, to further its nuclear program."

The Importance of U.S.-Japan-Korea Trilateral Defense Cooperation

Korean Peninsula

Advancing United States Policies toward Korean Reunification by Yong-Hee Andrean
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2018)
Strategy Research Paper.
Are We “Running Out of Time” on North Korea? by Ross E. Brashears
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2018)
Strategy Research Paper.

“Be Careful What You Wish For: Security Challenges Facing the Korean Peninsula During a Potential Unification Process”
Richey, Mason, et al.
Asian Security 14, no. 3 (September-December 2018): 263-281.

The Collapse of North Korea: Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification by Tara O
Call Number: Root Hall DS935.65 .O34 2016
(New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

“Deterrence Under Nuclear Asymmetry: THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] and the Prospects for Missile Defense on the Korean Peninsula”
Kim, Inwook, and Soul Park.
Contemporary Security Policy 40, no. 2 (April 2019): 165-192.
“The Hidden Complexities of U.S. Decision-Making on North Korea”
Beres, Louis René.
War Room (February 20, 2019).

Hidden People of North Korea by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh
Call Number: Root Hall DS932.7 .H37 2015
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)

“Policy Revolt: Army Opposition to the Korea Withdrawal Plan”
Setzekorn, Eric B.
Parameters: U.S. Army War College 48, no. 3 (Autumn 2018): 5-13.
Missiles of North Korea
Missile Threat: CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] Missile Defense Project

North Korea: New Policy for East Asian Security and Stability by Stephen H. Bales
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2015)
Strategy Research Paper.
North Korea: What 18 Months of Diplomacy Has and Has Not Achieved by Mark E. Manyin, et al.
(Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019)
North Korea’s Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs by Mary Beth D. Nikitin
(Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019)
North Korea’s Nuclear Challenge: P4 [Proactive, Principled, Pragmatic, and Persisten] Engagement Approach with a Hint of Realism by Jung W. Choi
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2016)
Strategy Research Paper.

“North Korea’s Other Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Varriale, Cristina.
Arms Control Today 48, no. 7 (September 2018): 6-10.

On The Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War by Van Jackson
Call Number: Root Hall E183.8.K7 J327 201
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
A Peace Treaty with North Korea? by Emma Chanlett-Avery, et al.
(Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019)
South Korea: Background and U.S. Relations by Mark E. Manyin, Emma Chanlett-Avery, Brock R. Williams
(Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019)
Stumbling Toward Strategic Failure: Transitioning to Rotational Forces in Korea by David M. Rozelle
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2018)
Strategy Research Paper.

“The Rise of Kim Yo-Jong in the North Korean Regime”
Lea-Henry, Jed.
Strategic Analysis 43, no. 2 (March-April 2019): 138-145.
“Turning It Up to Eleven: Belligerent Rhetoric in North Korea’s Propaganda”
Richey, Mason.
Parameters: U.S. Army War College 46, no. 4 (Winter 2016-17): 93-104.

U.S.-North Korea Relations by Emma Chanlett-Avery and Mark E. Manyin
(Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019)

“What’s In a Name? Korean ‘Peace’ and Breaking the Deadlock"
Kim, Duyeon.
War on the Rocks (September 14, 2018).

Japan

“Australia-Japan-ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations]: Strengthening the Core of the Indo-Pacific”
Green, Philip.
Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs 2, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 8-16.
“Between Offensive and Defensive Realism – The Japanese Abe Government’s Security Policy toward China”
Lande, Eivind.
Asian Security 14, no. 2 (2018): 172-192.

Development of Allied Amphibious Capability and the Policy of Rebalance by James Brandon Conway
(Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2015)
Strategy Research Project.

“Djibouti and Beyond: Japan’s First Post-War Overseas Base and the Recalibration of Risk in Securing Enhanced Military Capabilities"
Mason, Ra.
Asian Security 14, no. 3 (September-December 2018): 339-357.
“Hedging Against China: Japanese Strategy towards a Rising Power”
López i Vidal, Ll., and Àngels Pelegrín.
Asian Security 14, no. 2 (2018): 193-211.
“Hiding in Plain Sight? Japan’s Militarization of Space and Challenges to the Yoshida Doctrine”
Kallender, Paul, and Christopher W. Hughes.
Asian Security 15, no. 2 (2019): 180-204.

Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China by Sheila A. Smith
Call Number: Root Hall DS849.C6 S64 2016
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016)
India-Japan Strategic Cooperation and Implications for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region by Thomas F. Lynch, III and James J. Przystup
Call Number: Root Hall U411 .S77 no.24
(Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2014)

“Is Japan’s New Defense Plan Ambitious Enough?”
Green, Michael J., and Jeffrey W. Hornung.
War on the Rocks (December 6, 2018).
“Japan’s Defense Readiness: Prospects and Issues in Operationalizing Air and Maritime Supremacy”
Hinata-Yamaguchi, Ryo.
Naval War College Review 71, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 41-60.

Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security by Hugo Dobson, et al. (ed.)
Third Edition
(New York, NY: Routledge, 2012)

“Japan’s Misguided Plutonium Policy”
Kuperman, Alan J., and Hina Acharya.
Arms Control Today 48, no. 8 (October 2018): 16-22.

Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance by Sheila A. Smith
Call Number: Root Hall E183.8.J3 S62 2014
(New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 2014)

Japan's Population Is Shrinking by a Quarter of a million People Every Year
Charlton, Emma.
World Economic Forum (April 18, 2019).
“Japan’s Security Strategy and Its Impact on U.S. National Security Interests”
Hyong, Sung K., and David A. Anderson.
InterAgency Journal 10, no. 1 (2019): 3-33.

Peak Japan: The End of Great Ambitions by Brad Glosserman
Call Number: Root Hall DS891 .G56 2019
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019)

“The Presidentialization of Japan’s LDP [Liberal Democratic Party] Politics: Analyzing Its Causes, Limits, and Peril.”
Mishima, Ko.
World Affairs 182, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 97-123.
‘Quality Infrastructure’: Japan’s Robust Challenge to China’s Belt and Road
Harris, Tobias.
War on the Rocks (April 9, 2019).
“Security in the Indo-Pacific Region: The View from Tokyo”
Hornung, Jeffrey and Jacqueline E. Whitt.
War Room. May 10, 2019, streaming audio, 22:72.
"Southeast Asian Hedging and Indo-Japanese Strategies for Regional Balance: Managing China’s Rise”
Chand, Bibek, Zenel Garcia, and Kevin Modlin.
Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs 1, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 23-56.
“U.S. Military Liberty Restrictions in Okinawa - Falling on Deaf Ears?”
Wright, John C.
Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs 1, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 45-52.
“What Kind of Japan? Tokyo’s Strategic Options in a Contested Asia”
Enval, H. D. P.
Survival 61, no. 4 (August-September 2019): 117-130.

The Pacific Review Volume 31, 2018 - Issue 4: “New Directions in Japan’s Security: Non-U.S. Centric Evolution” 8 articles. Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018)

“New Directions in Japan's Security: Non-US Centric Evolution, Introduction to a Special Issue.”
Midford, Paul.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 407-423.
“Japan's Emerging Arms Transfer Strategy: Diversifying to Re-Centre on the US–Japan Alliance”
Hughes, Chris.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 424-440.
“Decentering from the US in Regional Security Multilateralism: Japan's 1991 Pivot”
Midford, Paul.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 441-459.
“From a Decentering to Recentering Imperative: Japan's Approach to Asian Security Multilateralism”
Yuzawa, Takeshi.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 460-479.
“Learning Multilateral Military and Political Cooperation in the Counter-Piracy Missions: A Step towards De-Centering of Japan's Security Policy?”
Vosse, Wilhelm M.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 480-497.
“After a Decade of Strategic Partnership: Japan and Australia ‘Decentering’ from the US Alliance?”
Wilkins, Thomas S.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 498-514.
“Japan's Policy toward India since 2000: For the Sake of Maintaining US Leadership in East Asia”
Ishibashi, Natsuyo.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 515-532.
“Japan's Security Cooperation with the Philippines and Vietnam”
Grønning, Bjørn Elias Mikalsen.
Pacific Review 31, no. 4 (July 2018): 533-552.

Beyond Nuclear Diplomacy: A Regime Insider's Look at North Korea

How North Korea Exploits Cryptocurrency

Closing the Crypto Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity in Southeast Asia
Carlisle,David, and Kayla Izenman. (London, UK: Royal United Services Institute, 2019).
"This paper reveals how North Korea can exploit cryptocurrency, particularly in Southeast Asia, to circumvent international sanctions. It sets out practical guidance for countries in the region to ensure resiliency against the risk of North Korean cryptocurrency activity."

The Gathering Health Storm in North Korea

A View Inside North Korea: Surveys of Actual North Korean Citizens

Mt. Fuji DC Event: The U.S.-Japan Alliance at 60

“Center for Strategic and International Studies. September 9, 2020, 58:18. Program begins about 0:26. Sixty years ago this year, the U.S. and Japan signed the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security. This Alliance has been integral to ensuring strong relations between the two nations and contributing to global peace and prosperity. In cooperation with the Mt. Fuji Dialogue, this event will celebrate the Alliance and assess how the two countries can continue to work together to maintain peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.”