North Korea in Transition

Kyung-Ae Park holds the Korea Foundation Chair at the Institute of Asian Research of the University of British Columbia. Scott Snyder is Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

• Part I: North Korea’s Political System in the Transition EraChapter 1: The Role and Influence of IdeologyCharles ArmstrongChapter 2: The Role and Influence of the Party ApparatusKen GauseChapter 3: The Role and Influence of the North Korean MilitaryTerence RoehrigChapter 4: The Kims’ Three Bodies: Toward Understanding Dynastic Succession in North KoreaBruce CumingsChapter 5: North Korea after Kim Jong IlVictor Cha and Nicholas AndersonPart II: Prospects for the North Korean EconomyChapter 6: Western Aid: The Missing Link for North Korea’s Economic Revival?Nicholas EberstadtChapter 7: Future Strategies for Global Economic IntegrationBradley BabsonPart III: North Korean Society and Culture in TransitionChapter 8: Low-Profile Capitalism: The Emergence of the New Merchant/Entrepreneurial Class in Post-Famine North KoreaAndrei LankovChapter 9: “Cultural Pollution” From the South?Woo Young Lee and Jungmin SeoPart IV: Foreign Relations in the Transition EraChapter 10: Changes and Continuities in Pyongyang’s China PolicyLiu MingChapter 11: Changes and Continuities in Inter-Korean RelationsHaksoon PaikChapter 12: North Korea’s Relations with the United States and the Rest of the WorldDavid KangPart V: ConclusionChapter 13: North Korea in Transition: Evolution or Revolution?Scott Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park

Readers . . . will find rich food for thought on the dynamics between political stability and socioeconomic changes in the country.