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North Korean Foreign Policy
Security Dilemma and Succession
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2010
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North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception stemming from various security dilemma, and a very real concern regarding another father-to-son succession. This volume views North Korea's external and domestic threats as causes and its provocative foreign policy as an effect of the causes. The security dilemma has impelled North Korea to generate and thus portray to the world provocative signals, and the ever-pressing issue of Kim Jong-il's succession has driven him to prioritize his own political survival over that of North Korea's state survival. Unless Kim Jong-il's political survival is guaranteed, North Korea will not be interested in full-scale introduction of capitalist way of economic reform and economic package promised by the United States and South Korea in return for the abandonment of their nuclear program. North Korean Foreign Policy suggests that an effective policy for countries relating to North Korea, whether dovish or hawkish, should deal directly with Kim Jong-il's political survival, and not with Pyongyang's failed economy.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4862-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4864-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
220
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Chapter One. Security Dilemma and the Succession No access
Chapter Two. Levels of Analysis and the Study of North Korea’s Foreign Policy No access
Chapter Three. The Sino-American Normalization and the Official Launch of the Succession from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, 1978–1981 No access
Chapter Four. Getting Approval for the Succession, 1982–1984 No access
Chapter Five. North Korea Siding with the Former Soviet Union, 1985–1989 No access
Chapter Six. Nuclear Program and Kim Il Sung’s Death No access
Chapter Seven. Provocations and Signals: Variations between Verbal and Actual Provocations No access
Chapter Eight. Risk-Taking Vis-à-Vis the United States: The Second Nuclear Crisis No access
Chapter Nine. China in the North Korean Nuclear Quagmire: Is China Influential? No access
Chapter Ten. Russia in North Korea’s Foreign Policy No access
Chapter Eleven. Japan in North Korea’s Foreign Policy No access
Chapter Twelve. South Korea in North Korea’s Foreign Policy No access
Chapter Thirteen. The Future of North Korea’s Foreign Policy No access
