North Korean foreign policy : security dilemma and succession /
Kim, Yong-ho,1964-
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,
2014.
North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception stemming from various security dilemmas, and a very real concern regarding another father-to-son succession. This volume views North Korea's external and domestic threats as causes and its provocative foreign policy as an effect. The security dilemma has impelled North Korea to generate and portray to the world provocative signals, and the ever-pressing issue of Kim Jong-il's succession has driven him to prioritize his own political survival over that of North Korea's state survival. Unless Kim Jong-il's political survival is guaranteed, North Korea will not be interested in full-scale introduction of capitalist way of economic reform and economic package promised by the United States and South Korea in return for the abandonment of their nuclear program. North Korean Foreign Policy suggests that an effective policy for countries relating to North Korea should deal directly with Kim Jong-il's political survival.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Security dilemma & the succession -- 2. Levels of analysis & the study of North Korea's foreign policy -- 3. The Sino-American normalization & the official launch of the succession from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, 1978-1981 -- 4. Getting approval for the succession, 1982-1984 -- 5. North Korea siding with the former Soviet Union, 1985-1989 -- 6. Nuclear program & Kim Il Sung's death -- 7. Provocations & signals : variations between verbal & actual provocations -- 8. Risk-taking vis-à-vis the United States : the second nuclear crisis -- 9. China in the North Korean nuclear quagmire : is China influential? -- 10. Russia in North Korea's foreign policy -- 11. Japan in North Korea's foreign policy -- 12. South Korea in North Korea's foreign policy -- 13. Prospect -- The future of North Korea's foreign policy.
North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception stemming from various security dilemmas, and a very real concern regarding another father-to-son succession. This volume views North Korea's external and domestic threats as causes and its provocative foreign policy as an effect. The security dilemma has impelled North Korea to generate and portray to the world provocative signals, and the ever-pressing issue of Kim Jong-il's succession has driven him to prioritize his own political survival over that of North Korea's state survival. Unless Kim Jong-il's political survival is guaranteed, North Korea will not be interested in full-scale introduction of capitalist way of economic reform and economic package promised by the United States and South Korea in return for the abandonment of their nuclear program. North Korean Foreign Policy suggests that an effective policy for countries relating to North Korea should deal directly with Kim Jong-il's political survival.
National security
Heads of state
Nuclear weapons