North Korea after Kim Il Sung Continuity or Change?

by Henriksen, Thomas H.; Mo, Jongryn

• ISBN13: 9780817994624
• ISBN10: 0817994629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

A distinguished group of international scholars debates the state of change or continuity in North Korea's post--Kim II Sung regime--shedding light on one of the world's most closed societies, its potential to adapt to post--cold war realities, and the prospects for a peaceful and stable Korean peninsula.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Contributors	ix	(4)
INTRODUCTION	xiii
Thomas H. Henriksen
Jongryn Mo
1 RECENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTH KOREA	1	(12)
B. C. Koh
2 PROSPECTS FOR ECONOMIC REFORM AND POLITICAL STABILITY	13	(19)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Jongryn Mo
3 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN NORTH KOREA AND PROSPECTS FOR REFORM	32	(18)
Hong-Tack Chun
4 PROSPECTS FOR A NORTH KOREAN EXTERNAL ECONOMIC OPENING	50	(17)
Marcus Noland
5 THE NORTH KOREAN MILITARY THREAT UNDER KIM JONG IL	67	(14)
Hideshi Takesada
6 CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES OF NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN POLICY: A RATIONAL ACTOR ANALYSIS	81	(12)
Byeonggil Ahn
7 THE NORTH KOREAN PROBLEM AND THE ROLE OF SOUTH KOREA	93	(15)
Chung-in Moon
8 SECURITY AND ECONOMIC LINKAGES IN THE INTER-KOREAN RELATIONSHIP	108	(14)
Jongryn Mo
9 THE KOREAN NUCLEAR UNDERSTANDING: THREE ALTERNATIVE FUTURES	122	(10)
Henry Sokolski
10 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN NORTH KOREA	132	(19)
Kristin R. Gustavson
Jinmin Lee-Rudolph
11 NORTH KOREA'S TWO KIMS AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY	151	(22)
Thomas H. Henriksen
Index	173