Strategies of Survival

North Korean Foreign Policy under Kim Jong-un

AvJun Taek Kwon,Weiqi Zhang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The North Korean nuclear issue has been one of the most significant challenges to international peace and security in the 21st century. The failure to peacefully resolve the issue could trigger regional instability or even nuclear warfare in the worst scenario. Since its first successful nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has repeatedly defied the international community regarding its nuclear program despite the effort and resources that the international community has focused on the issue. Many consider Pyongyang decision-makers irrational or simply crazy. Nonetheless, since early 2018, North Korea has drastically changed its foreign policy and actively pursued rapprochement.How to understand DPRK foreign policy, its past, and future? How will the nuclear issue develop under a possibly new paradigm of North Korean foreign policy? This book seeks to provide readers with a comprehensive analysis of North Korean foreign relations. As the existing analysis and literature on North Korean foreign relations focus primarily on China, the United States, South Korea, and Japan, but such analysis ignores the DPRK’s relations with many other states and organizations that not only interact with North Korea nevertheless also play important roles in its strategy of surviving in the international systems.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-25
Mått:157 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666922318

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Weiqi Zhang is associate professor at Suffolk University, Boston. Jun Taek Kwon is associate professor at Utica University, New York.

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This excellent book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on North Korea’s foreign policy. It explains the resilience of the Kim Jong-Un regime, despite international isolation, persistent economic problems, and a continuing security confrontation with the United States. Editors Kwon and Zhang argue that national identity and theJucheideology of self-reliance have been the foundation of regime legitimacy. The introduction provides historical background on North Korea’s struggle to achieve political independence, national security, and economic prosperity. The body of the book examines the ineffectiveness of US economic sanctions to prevent North Korea from becoming a nuclear-weapon state; how the Kim regimes have taken advantage of North Korea’s geopolitical importance to China to guarantee the latter’s economic and political backing; the obstacles to extracting economic concessions from Japan; North Korea's economic and political partnership with Russia; and its nuclear and missiles cooperation with Iran. A useful addition to Scott Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park'sNorth Korea’s Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World (CH, Jul'23, 60-3332). Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; practitioners.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. The Adversarial Interdependence between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States: Jun T. KwonChapter 2. Pursuing Interdependence and Independence: North Korea’s Foreign Policy on China: Weiqi ZhangChapter 3. North Korean Policy on South Korea: Development Strategy and Regime Competition: Sukhoon HongChapter 4. Presence of Malice: Japan and North Korea’s Non-Relations: Anand RaoChapter 5. Seeking Alternative Opportunities: North Korea-Russia Relations: Evengii GamermanChapter 6. North Korea and Iran: Kim Jong-Un’s Dilemma: Alon LevkowitzChapter 7. External Legitimacy in North Korean Survival Diplomacy: Global South and International Organizations: Roberto Dominguez