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Description
Spies of North Korea: The Theory and Practice of North Korean Espionage provides an analysis of North Korean communism, known as Juche ideology, as well as its ultimate foreign policy goal – the revolutionization of South Korea through the reunification of the two Koreas. This book is based on the research methodologies from both primary and secondary resources that are unique to this topic. Primary research was conducted through a series of interviews with a former senior-level North Korean intelligence officer, under the alias of Dr. Dong-sik Kim, one of the few NKIS officers who had completed the 10-year long North Korean spy-training program at Bureau 225 – the main component of the NKIS that conducts HUMINT and special operations as well as training its spies. Dr. Kim infiltrated South Korea and defected in 1995. Secondary research was based on analyses of several memoirs by former North Korean spies – written in both Korean and English – and specifically, copies of NKIS' indoctrination materials on Juche ideology, which were secretly transferred from Pyongyang to Seoul during Dr. Kim's infiltration operation into the South. Indeed, these resources were written by Hwang Jang Yeop, the architect of Juche ideology, and the highest ranking North Korean official who had ever defected to South Korea.
Table of Contents
1. Why North Korea conducts espionage
Juche Ideology as a Tool of Indoctrination
The NK Psyche
The DPRK's Control System
The KWP's Control System
The Party's Lower-tier Control System
The KWP's Political Guidance Methodology to Control the Party Cadres and Non- Party Groups
The KWP's Control System over the KPA
Revolutionization
Targets
2. NK's National Strategy for Espionage
DPRK's National Strategy
TheDPRK'sStrategyagainstSouthKorea
Strategies for the Revolutionization of the South and Reunification under Kim Jong Un
The Decision-Making Process of the DPRK's Strategy for the Revolutionization of South Korea
Variables that influence the strategy of the Revolutionization of the South
South Korean Factors
North Korea's Domestic Factors
External (Foreign) Factors
The North Korean Policy-Makers' Understanding of World Affairs
3. History of the DPRK's Conduct of Strategy of Revolutionization of the South During the Cold War
Objectives of the DPRK's Strategy of the Revolutionization of the South During the Cold War
Development of the DPRK's Strategy for the Revolutionization of the South during the Cold War Era
4. The Shift of the DPRK's Strategy of Revolutionization of the South in the Post-Cold War Era
Factors and Characteristics
Changes in Strategies
North Korea's Re-evaluation of Strategies and Tactics to Revolutionize the South
PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH KOREAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
5. Operational Components of the North Korean Intelligence Service
United Front Department
Bureau 225
Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Korean People's Army
6. Strategic and Tactical Components of the North Korean SOF
Strategic Components of the SOF
Tactical Components of the SOF
7. The Evolution of the NKIS's Command-and-Control Structure
Control via a Mid-Level Guidance Organization
Control via Secretary of Espionage Against South Korea
Kim Jong Il's Direct Control
8. Tradecraft of the North Korean Intelligence Service
North Korean Espionage
The NKIS Illegals
The NKIS's Exploitation of Student Activism in South Korea
North Korea's Jusapa Operations
PART III: CASE STUDIES OF NORTH KOREAN ESPIONAGE AGAINST SOUTH KOREA
9. Lt. No Gum Sok [???]: First North Korean pilot who defected to the U.S.
10. Hwang Jang Yeop: An Architect of Juche Ideology who defected to the U.S. and South Korea
11. Kim Hyun Hee: A North Korean spy who bombed Korean Airline (KAL) flight 858, which killed 115 people on board
12. Kim Dong Sik: A North Korean spy who was arrested and defected to South Korea in 1995
Product details
| Published | Sep 17 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 230 |
| ISBN | 9798881868192 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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