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This book provides broad, deep insight into how North Korea calculates, balances, and addresses key policy challenges. The authors-Korean, European, and American-have extensive experience in North Korea and with North Koreans, crucial to addressing the myths and misconceptions about how the North functions and perceives the world.
List of contents
Introduction by Robert Carlin and Chung-in Moon
Chapter 1: To What Extent and How Do We Know About North Korea? Linking Contextual Intelligence to Sound Policy by Robert Carlin
Chapter 2: Can the Kim Jong-un Regime Survive? by Jong Seok Lee
Chapter 3: The North Korean Economy in Crisis: Prospects for Reform and Policy Options by Rüdiger Frank
Chapter 4: Kim Jong-un's Economic Reform and Opening: Opportunities, Constraints, and Prospects by Dongho Jo
Chapter 5: North Korean Society at a Crossroad: Change and Continuity in the Kim Jong-un era by Sung Kyung Kim
Chapter 6: North Korea's Foreign Policy: A Revisionist State, An Alliance with China, or A Third Way? by Jung-Chul Lee
Chapter 7: The Status and Role of the North Korean Military During the Kim Jong-un Period by Gee-Dong Lee
Chapter 8: Nuclear North Korea: A Path Forward in View of Facts, Myths and Uncertainties by Siegfried S. Hecker
Chapter 9: International Sanctions on North Korea: Are They Working? by Thomas J. Biersteker and Zuzana Hudáková
About the author
Robert Carlin is consultant at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.Chung-in Moon is chairman of the Sejong Institute in Seoul, Korea.Robert Carlin is consultant at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.Brandi Watkins is associate professor in the School of Communication and Digital Media at Virginia Tech.Chung-in Moon is chairman of the Sejong Institute in Seoul, Korea.
Summary
This book provides broad, deep insight into how North Korea calculates, balances, and addresses key policy challenges. The authors—Korean, European, and American—have extensive experience in North Korea and with North Koreans, crucial to addressing the myths and misconceptions about how the North functions and perceives the world.
