North Korea’s Foreign Policy

The Kim Jong-un Regime in a Hostile World

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North Korea’s Foreign Policy

The Kim Jong-un Regime in a Hostile World

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Since Kim Jong-un’s assumption of power in December 2011, North Korea has undergone expanded nuclear development, political isolation, and economic stagnation. Kim’s early prioritization of the byungjin policy, simultaneous economic and military or nuclear development, highlighted his goal of transforming North Korea’s domestic economic circumstances and strengthening its position in the world as a nuclear state. The central dilemma shaping Kim Jong-un’s foreign policy throughout his first decade in power revolves around ensuring North Korea’s prosperity and security while sustaining the political isolation and control necessary for regime survival. In order to evaluate North Korea’s foreign policy under Kim, this volume will examine the impact of domestic factors that have influenced the formation and implementation of Kim’s foreign policy, Kim’s distinctive use of summitry and effectiveness of such meetings as an instrument by which to attain foreign policy goals, and the impact of international responses to North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities on North Korea’s foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Introduction: North Korea’s Foreign Policy
Scott A. Snyder
PART I: UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER KIM JONG-UN
Chapter 1: Making Sense of the ByungjinPolicy: Goals, Hopes, and Limitations
Andrei Lankov
Chapter 2: North Korea’s Economic Development Strategy under Kim Jong-un*
Kim Byung-yeon
Chapter 3: North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy and Global Security
Virginie Grzelczyk
PART II: NORTH KOREA’S SUMMIT DIPLOMACY UNDER KIM JONG-UN
Chapter 4: Inter-Korean Path to Peace: Jump-Started but Stalled
Haksoon Paik
Chapter 5: The Restoration of Special Sino–North Korean Relations and Xi Jinping–Kim Jong-un Summitry
Yun Sun
Chapter 6: Historic Showmanship between Trump and Kim Jong-un: The Possible Normalization of US–North Korean Summitry
Pacheco Pardo
Chapter 7: Moscow-Pyongyang Summitry: From Stalin and Kim Il-sung to Putin and Kim Jong-un
Artyom Lukin
PART III: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMACY TOWARD THE WORLD
Chapter 8: United Nations Sanctions and North Korean Diplomatic Engagement with the International Community
Justin V. Hastings
Chapter 9: North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategies and Operations: Toward Weapons of Mass Effectiveness
Michael Raska
Chapter 10: North Korean Human Rights Diplomacy at the United Nations
Sandra Fahy
Chapter 11: North Korea’s Track-II Knowledge Diplomacy
Kyung-Ae Park
Bibliography
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Product details

Published Nov 14 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781538160299
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 12 tables
Dimensions 237 x 157 mm
Series Asia in World Politics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Scott A. Snyder

Anthology Editor

Kyung-Ae Park

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