Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea

Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement

Robert Carlin, Chung-in Moon

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781978750036
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Storia coreana

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Graphs, Tables, and Figures
• List of Graphs, Tables, and Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: To What Extent and How Do We Know About North Korea?: Linking Contextual Intelligence to Sound Policy
• Chapter 2: Can the Kim Jong-un Regime Survive?
• Chapter 3: The North Korean Economy in Crisis: Prospects for Reform and Policy Options
• Chapter 4: Kim Jong-un’s Economic Reform and Opening: Opportunities, Constraints, and Prospects
• Chapter 5: North Korean Society at a Crossroad: Change and Continuity in the Kim Jong-un Era
• Chapter 6: Kim Jong-un’s Foreign Policy: A Revisionist State, an Alliance with China, or a Third Way?
• Chapter 7: The Status and Role of the North Korean Military During the Kim Jong-un Period
• Chapter 8: Nuclear North Korea: A Path Forward in View of Facts, Myths, and Uncertainties
• Chapter 9: International Sanctions on North Korea: Are They Working?
• Chapter 10: North Korea’s Food Security Strategy: Analytically Flawed, Inherently Fragile
• Chapter 11: North Korea’s Health System in the Kim Jong-un Era
• Chapter 12: Understanding North Korea: Negotiation
• Chapter 13: Understanding North Korea: Engagement
• Index
• About the Contributors