Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea

Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvRobert Carlin,Chung-in Moon,Chung-In Moon

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This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished through the extensive experience of the authors—Korean, European, and American—in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no substitute for such direct experience in order to address the numerous myths and misconceptions that have grown up and persisted over the years about how the North functions, and how it perceives the world. Moreover, the usual focus on a single issue—for example, just nuclear or just economic matters—fails to provide a sense of how important the inter-relationship of these separate parts is in understanding the whole. The experience brought to bear in the book and the breadth of coverage provides badly needed, critical insights about North Korea at time when policy in Seoul and Washington toward the North is at a crucial hinge point.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-23
Mått158 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations
Antal sidor350
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666906776

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Introduction by Robert Carlin and Chung-in MoonChapter 1: To What Extent and How Do We Know About North Korea? Linking Contextual Intelligence to Sound Policy by Robert CarlinChapter 2: Can the Kim Jong-un Regime Survive? by Jong Seok LeeChapter 3: The North Korean Economy in Crisis: Prospects for Reform and Policy Options by Rüdiger FrankChapter 4: Kim Jong-un's Economic Reform and Opening: Opportunities, Constraints, and Prospects by Dongho JoChapter 5: North Korean Society at a Crossroad: Change and Continuity in the Kim Jong-un era by Sung Kyung KimChapter 6: North Korea’s Foreign Policy: A Revisionist State, An Alliance with China, or A Third Way? by Jung-Chul LeeChapter 7: The Status and Role of the North Korean Military During the Kim Jong-un Period by Gee-Dong LeeChapter 8: Nuclear North Korea: A Path Forward in View of Facts, Myths and Uncertainties by Siegfried S. HeckerChapter 9: International Sanctions on North Korea: Are They Working? by Thomas J. Biersteker and Zuzana Hudáková

Carlin and Moon are among the most perceptive observers of North Korea, in no small measure because they have actual histories with the country’s officials and are appropriately modest about what we can know. This volume gathers together an unusual cluster of leading experts, but does not confine itself to standard foreign policy analysis; it considers cultural change, the economy and ongoing humanitarian challenges, including those around COVID. Nonetheless, a particular bonus is a roundtable discussion among leading negotiators from both the US and South Korea. If you have an interest in North Korea, this book needs to be in your library.