학위논문(박사)--서울대학교 대학원 :국제대학원 국제학과,2019. 8. 박태균.This dissertation investigates U.S. policies towards Communist countries in Asia in the late 1970s, focusing on Vietnam and North Korea with the China factor as background for U.S. grand strategy. It focuses on the American and Communist sides attempts and failure to achieve recognition and normalization. This study first describes the changing diplomatic strategies of two U.S. administrations of late-Ford and Carter regarding relations with Vietnam and North Korea. It then sheds light on various mechanisms that led each side to either reject or encourage an improvement of bilateral contacts, among which Sino-American normalization and the China factor at work during the later half of the Car...