Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
COVID-19 Kim Jong-un regime North Korea Agriculture North Korea Diplomacy North Korea Economy North Korea Military North Korea Society- 1–12 Introduction 1–12
- 91–112 Chapter 5: North Korean Society at a Crossroad: Change and Continuity in the Kim Jong-un Era 91–112
- 145–164 Chapter 7: The Status and Role of the North Korean Military During the Kim Jong-un Period 145–164
- 165–184 Chapter 8: Nuclear North Korea: A Path Forward in View of Facts, Myths, and Uncertainties 165–184
- 205–228 Chapter 10: North Korea’s Food Security Strategy: Analytically Flawed, Inherently Fragile 205–228
- 323–334 Index 323–334
- 335–340 About the Contributors 335–340