North Korea and Northeast Asia

by Kim, Samuel S.; Lee, Tai Hwan; Cha, Victor D.; Eliot Kang, C S.; Lee, Myonwoo; Manning, Robert A.; Noland, Marcus; Wishnick, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780742517103
• ISBN10: 0742517101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world significance. This volume offers a major reappraisal of the changing relationship between North Korea and its neighboring powers in the post-Cold War era in both theoretical and practical terms. The contributors examine the complex interplay of global, regional, and national forces that have influenced and shaped the changing patterns of conflict and cooperation in North Korea's relationships with China, Russia, and Japan and with the United States. Within the context of Northeast Asian geopolitics, the book tracks, explains, and assesses North Korea's survival strategies in both the security and economic domains, as well as the prospects of these strategies in the coming years.

Author Biography

Samuel S. Kim teaches in the Department of Political Science and is a senior research scholar at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Tai Hwan Lee is director of the regional studies program and former director of foreign policy and security studies at the Sejong Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	vii
Preface	xi
Part One: Theory and Practice
North Korea and Northeast Asia in World Politics	3	(58)
Samuel S. Kim
Part Two: Interactions
United States-North Korean Relations: From Welfare to Workfare?	61	(28)
Robert A. Manning
Japanese-North Korean Relations: Going in Circles	89	(20)
Myonwoo Lee
Chinese-North Korean Relations: Managing Asymmetrical Interdependence	109	(30)
Samuel S. Kim
Tai Hwan Lee
Russian--North Korean Relations: A New Era?	139	(26)
Elizabeth Wishnick
Part Three: Survival Strategy
North Korea's External Economic Relations: Globalization in ``Our Own Style''	165	(30)
Marcus Noland
North Korea's Security Policy: Swords into Plowshares?	195	(22)
C. S. Eliot Kang
Assessing the North Korean Threat: The Logic of Preemption, Prevention, and Engagement	217	(32)
Victor D. Cha
Bibliography	249	(14)
Index	263	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	275