Development and security in international aid to North Korea: commonalities and differences among the European Union, the United States and South Korea

Introduction: China and North Korea: between development and security

“…In 2017, Jang and Suh argued that the 'nexus of security and development lies in the crux of challenges confronting human security and aid failure in North Korea' (2017:730). Indeed, in their article they claim that while the majority of the literature on North Korea focuses on nuclear and missile technologies and other security threats including human insecurity and human rights are marginalised to the periphery of the debate, the connection between these sources of insecurity lie at the heart of finding appropriate responses to the security dilemma on the Korean peninsula (Jang and Suh, 2017). Although the development-security nexus was developed in relation to explaining post-Cold War intra-and interstate conflicts in Africa, Jang and Suh argue that it can be readily applied to the situation in North Korea.…”