North Korea’s Foreign Policy

The Kim Jong-un Regime in a Hostile World

Scott A. Snyder, Kyung-Ae Park

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9798881879044
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Storia coreana

Since Kim Jong-un's assumption of power in December 2011, North Korea has undergone expanded nuclear development, political isolation, and economic stagnation. Kim's early prioritization of the byungjin policy, simultaneous economic and military or nuclear development, highlighted his goal of transforming North Korea's domestic economic circumstances and strengthening its position in the world as a nuclear state. The central dilemma shaping Kim Jong-un's foreign policy throughout his first decade in power revolves around ensuring North Korea's prosperity and security while sustaining the political isolation and control necessary for regime survival. In order to evaluate North Korea's foreign policy under Kim, this volume will examine the impact of domestic factors that have influenced the formation and implementation of Kim's foreign policy, Kim's distinctive use of summitry and effectiveness of such meetings as an instrument by which to attain foreign policy goals, and the impact of international responses to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear capabilities on North Korea's foreign policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Tables
• Introduction: North Korea’s Foreign Policy
• Part I: Understanding North Korea’s Foreign Policy under Kim Jong-un
• Making Sense of the Byungjin Policy: Goals, Hopes, and Limitations
• North Korea’s Economic Development Strategy under Kim Jong-un
• North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy and Global Security
• PART II: North Korea’s Summit Diplomacy under Kim Jong-un
• Inter-Korean Path to Peace: Jump-Started but Stalled
• The Restoration of Special Sino–North Korean Relations and Xi Jinping–Kim Jong-un Summitry
• Historic Showmanship between Trump and Kim Jong-un: The Possible Normalization of US-North
• Moscow-Pyongyang Summitry: From Stalin and Kim Il-sung to Putin and Kim Jong-un
• Part III: North Korean Diplomacy toward the World
• United Nations Sanctions and North Korean Diplomatic Engagement with the International Community
• North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategies and Operations: Toward Weapons of Mass Effectiveness
• North Korean Human Rights Diplomacy at the United Nations
• North Korea’s Track-II Knowledge Diplomacy
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors