Accession Number:

AD1069511

Title:

Humanitarian Assistance Organizations And Their Role In Crisis Response On The Korean Peninsula

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Master's Thesis]

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Chaves, Daniel K.
• Christmas, David
• Sloulin, Tammy L.

Report Date:

2018-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

91

Abstract:

Throughout the past 70 years, the alliance between the United States and Republic of Korea ROK or South Korea has persisted in a dynamic security environment in which South Korea emerged as a middle-power with robust crisis management capabilities. Conversely, the 1995 famine in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea DPRK or North Korea showcased the DPRKs inability to provide basic services it was the first time the regime solicited international humanitarian assistance, thus allowing international organizations and nongovernmental organizations to operate in the country. Social network analysis helps illuminate how the pedantic political relationship between the two Koreas caused fluctuations within the humanitarian assistance networks to the DPRK. Due to the ROKs humanitarian assistance capabilities and the strength of the U.S.-ROK alliance, the United States is less likely to conduct unilateral humanitarian assistance operations. Although many capable nongovernmental organizations exist on the Korean Peninsula, the ever-changing geopolitical situation between the United States, ROK, and DPRK can restrict their ability to execute humanitarian operations there.

Descriptors:

• health services
• international organizations
• humanitarian assistance
• governments
• intergovernmental organizations
• nongovernmental organizations
• political systems
• foreign relations
• medical personnel
• military operations
• united states
• national politics
• north korea
• political science
• asia
• geographic regions
• health care
• international relations
• national governments
• social networks

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Civil Defense

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]