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Kim, Inwook and Park, Soul 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6692-9080
(2019)
Deterrence under nuclear asymmetry: THAAD and the prospects for missile defense on the Korean peninsula.
Contemporary Security Policy, 40 (2).
pp. 165-192.
ISSN 1352-3260
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Abstract
The 2016 decision to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korea has generated multitude of intensely politicized issues and has proved highly controversial. This has made it challenging to alleviate, let alone clarify, points of analytical and policy tensions. We instead disaggregate and revisit two fundamental questions. One is whether THAAD could really defend South Korea from North Korean missiles. We challenge the conventional “qualified optimism” by giving analytical primacy to three countermeasures available to defeat THAAD–use of decoys, tumbling and spiral motion, and outnumbering. These countermeasures are relatively inexpensive to create but exceedingly difficult to offset. Second, we assess the optimal way to ensure South Korean national security against North Korean missiles. By examining the balance of capability and issues of credibility/commitment, we show that the U.S. extended deterrence by punishment remains plentiful and sufficiently credible even without enhancing the current defense capability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ballistic missile defense (bmd),extended deterrence,north korea,security dilemma,terminal high altitude area defense (thaad),political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3320 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2021 00:24 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81383 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13523260.2018.1558750 |
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