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An Analysis of the Subjective Perception Type on the North Korean Nuclear Threat and Countermeasures Against It - Focused on Q Methodology -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2015, 11(5), pp.95-118
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

Jonghwan Eun 1 Lee Si young 1 Park Eun Hyung 2

1서울대학교행정대학원
2서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study is to analyze Korean people’s subjective cognition on nuclear threats from North Korea and countermeasures against it. We seek to analyze the subjective cognition by using Q methodology; we compose a sample of statements for a Q sort based on news articles and preceding researches related to North Korea’s nuclear threats, and create P-samples of thirty-seven people according to Thomson’s Schemata. As a result, the cognition on North Korea’s nuclear threats are classified into five categories: pragmatic liberalist, jingoistic realist, nationalistic liberalist, cold-war realist and optimistic standpatter. These types show various levels of cognition on North Korea’s nuclear threats and their reponses to the nuclear problem varies according to their opinion on the reunification of the Korean peninsula and their preference for countermeasures. In policy decision-making to solve the North Korean nuclear problem, considering various types of population’s cognition and satisfying them can obtain more support from the population and thus enhance policy effects.

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