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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784474203321

Titolo

North Korea : the politics of regime survival / / Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2006

ISBN

1-317-46375-7

1-315-70207-X

1-317-46376-5

1-280-91267-7

9786610912674

0-7656-2182-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

320.95193

Soggetti

Political science - Korea (North) - History

Self-reliance

Korea (North) Economic policy

Korea (North) Foreign relations

Korea (North) Military policy

Korea (North) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Staying power of the socialist "hermit kingdom" / Young Whan Kihl -- Emergence of the second republic: the Kim regime adapts to the challenge of modernity / Alexandre Y. Mansourov -- Kim Jong Il's military first politics / Ilpyong J. Kim -- Reconciling nuclear standoff and economic shortfalls: Pyongyang's perspective / C. Kenneth Quinones -- North Korea's weapons of mass destruction / Larry A. Niksch -- North Korea's economic crisis, reforms, and policy implications / Dick K. Nanto -- U.S.-DPRK relations in the Kim Jong Il era / Robert A. Scalapino -- Japanese-North Korean relations under the Koizumi government / Hong Nack Kim -- Sino-North Korean relations in the post-Cold War world / Samuel S. Kim -- Russo-North Korean relations under Kim Jong Il / Peggy Falkenheim Meyer -- North Korea-



South Korea relations in the Kim Jong Il era / Seongji Woo -- (Bi-) multilateral approaches to defusing nuclear crisis: beyond the six-party talks as peace strategy / Young Whan Kihl -- Why hasn't North Korea collapsed? understanding the recent past, thinking about the future / Nicholas Eberstadt.

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring contributions by some of the leading experts in Korean studies, this book examines the political content of Kim Jong-Il's regime maintenance, including the domestic strategy for regime survival and North Korea's foreign relations with South Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States.