North Korea's Foreign Policy under Kim Jong Il

Dr. Tae-Hwan Kwak is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Eastern Kentucky University, USA and Dr. Seung-Ho Joo is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota-Morris, USA.

• Contents: Introduction, Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo; Juche's role in North Korea's foreign policy, C. Kenneth Quinones; Assessing North Korea's strategic intentions and motivations, Scott Snyder; North Korea's negotiating position during 15 years of chronic crisis: continuities and discontinuities, Curtis H. Martin; Kim Jong Il and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Ilsu Kim; DPRK WMD programs, Daniel A. Pinkston; North Korea and the Korean peninsula peace regime-building initiative, Tae-Hwan Kwak; North Korean policy toward the United States: Pyongyang copes with an evolving US context, Edward A. Olsen; North Korea's China policy, Ming Lee; North Korean policy toward Russia, Seung-Ho Joo; The DPRK's diplomatic normalization with Japan, Yoshinori Kaseda; North Korea's national strategy toward the South after the June 15 Joint Declaration: a strategy of national cooperation, Moo-Jin Yang; Summary and conclusion, Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo; Index.

'North Korea has been one of the world's most enduring security challenges and understanding the motivations and actions of the Kim Jong-il regime is crucial to successfully managing relations with the North. This book gathers some of the finest scholars on North Korea for an outstanding examination of North Korean foreign policy and its relations with others in the region.' Terence Roehrig, US Naval War College, USA