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Aiding and Abetting : Role of Foreign Missionaries in the South Korean Democracy Movement
Benjamin A. Engel 한국학술연구원 2020 Korea Observer Vol.51 No.1
This article e xamines the c ontributions of the Monday N ight G roup (MNG) t o the transnational advocacy network (TAN) which formed to assist the Korean Democracy Movement. It argues that the MNG was uniquely located in the TAN in that it functioned as a domestic-cum-international organization given it was spatially located in Korea but its international membership allowed it to seamlessly interact with Western governments and organizations. This unique location also led the MNG to engage in constant communicative interactions with Korean activists and thus led to reflexive learning about their own societies roles in the human rights situation in Korea. The article expands the understanding of the TAN which assisted the Korean Democracy Movement and adds to the theoretical discussion on TANs by identifying a unique domestic-cum-international group that operated in ways not covered in the original TAN model.
American Responses to Possible South Korean Nuclear Weapon Development: Then and Now
Benjamin A. Engel 이화여자대학교 통일학연구원 2023 Journal of peace and unification Vol.13 No.2
Following North Korea’s record-setting number of missile tests in 2022, calls for South Korea to develop its own nuclear deterrent have grown. Despite widespread public support for the idea, the US government has remained firmly opposed. This research investigates US logic for opposing South Korean nuclear weapon development in the 1970s as a historical precedent and extends the past arguments to the present. It finds the main reasons the US opposed South Korean nuclear development in the 1970s were concerns about falling nuclear dominoes, damage to the US-South Korea alliance, and doubts about the regional security environment. The article further argues that these rationales for US opposition to Korean nuclear development remain largely valid today.