[Soodang Security Studies Colloquium #8] The Dictator’s Island of Excellence: Contrasting Outcomes of the Nuclear Weapons Program between North Korea and Iraq
2021.06.07
• Date and Time: May 28, 2021 / 5PM • Presenter: Kyung Joo Jeon (KIDA) • Discussant: Yeon Jung Ji (HUFS) • Organized by: Peace & Democracy Institute, Department of Political Science and International Relations In Colooquium, Dr. Kyung Joo Jeon released a working paper called The Dictator’s Island of Excellence: Contrasting Outcomes of the Nuclear Weapons Program between North Korea and Iraq. Since the end of World War II, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Iraq, and many other countries have tried to develop nuclear weapons, and very few of themselves. Among the many cases of nuclear development attempts and subsequent failures, the author noted the failure of individual dictatorships. Previous studies in Iraq and Libya have shown that individual dictatorships will never succeed in nuclear development based on structural and institutional incompetence that adversely affects nuclear development, such as the “principal-agent problem” (nominal system and⋯
