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CONTENTS Volume One Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1. The Korean-American Relations during the Post-World War II Period ............................................................................................................. 11 Han Sung-joo 2. Sino-North Korean Relations before the Outbreak of the Korean War .................................................................................................. 37 Kim Hak-chun 3. The Thirty-Eighth Parallel in Korea ..................................................... 59 Shannon McCune 4. Internal Warfare in Korea, 1948–1950: The Local Setting of the Korean War ..................................................................................... 69 John Merrill 5. The Shifting Strategic Value of Korea, 1942–1950 ............................ 105 Masao Okonogi 6. American-Soviet Rivalry in Korea, 1945–1948 ................................... 141 Park Hong-kyu 7. Lessons from the Past: The First Wave of Developmental Assistance to North Korea and the German Reconstruction of Hamhùng ................................................................................................. 159 Rüdiger Frank 8. China’s Decision to Enter the Korean War: History Revisited .... 193 Hao Yufan and Zhai Zhihai vi contents 9. The War’s Impact on the Korean Peninsula ................................... 219 B.C. Koh 10. Kim II Sung’s Campaign against the Soviet Faction in Late 1955 and the Birth of Chuch’e ................................................ 239 Andrei N. Lankov 11. Ideology as Smokescreen: North Korea’s Juche Thought ............ 267 Brian Myers 12. The Politics of Conference: The Political Conference on Korea in Geneva, 26 April–15 June 1954 ........................................................ 289 Jong Yil Ra 13. Park Chung Hee, the CIA & the Bomb ............................................. 311 Peter Hayes and Chung-in Moon 14. The Major Powers and the Korean Triangle ................................... 325 Ilpyong J. Kim 15. North Korea’s Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo: A Critique ................................................................................................... 343 Jae Kyu Park 16. The North Korean Struggle for Survival: 1980–1990 ...................... 357 Sofijie Bosma 17. The Rajin-Sonbong Free Trade Zone Experiment: North Korea in Pursuit of New International Linkages ........................................ 375 James Cotton 18. The Collapse of Soviet and Russian Trade with the DPRK, 1989–1993: Impact and Implications .................................................. 395 Nicholas Eberstadt, Marc Rubin and Albiba Tretyakova Volume Two 19. The Gradualist Pipe-Dream: Prospects and Pathways for Korean Reunifijication ....................................................................... 409 Aidan Foster-Carter contents vii 20. Unifijication Through a Korean Commonwealth: Blueprint for a National Community ............................................... 427 Lee Hong-koo 21. Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation and The Tumen River Area Development Project ....................................................... 439 Andrew Marton, Terry McGee and Donald G. Paterson 22. Background and Options for Nuclear Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula .................................................................................... 467 Kongdan Oh 23. Beyond the DMZ: The Possibility of Civil Society in North Korea .............................................................................................. 497 Charles K. Armstrong 24. Economic Security in the DPRK .......................................................... 517 Bradley O. Babson 25. The Role of South Korea’s NGOs: The Political Context ............ 535 Chung Oknim 26. Why Hasn’t the DPRK Collapsed? ..................................................... 571 Nicholas Eberstadt 27. Dreaming an Impossible Dream? Opening, Reform and the Future of the North Korean Economy ............................................. 603 Rűdiger Frank 28. Looking Across the Yalu: Chinese Assessments of North Korea .............................................................................................. 611 Banning Garrett and Bonnie Glasser 29. Europe and North Korea ....................................................................... 631 Michael Hindley and James Bridges 30. Women, Resistance and the Divided Nation: The Romantic Rhetoric of Korean Reunifijication ...................................................... 645 Sheila Miyoshi Jager viii contents 31. Rhetoric Versus Reality for the Women of North Korea: Mothers of the Revolution .................................................................... 669 Kyungja Jung and Bronwen Dalton 32. On the Nature of the North Korean State ........................................ 693 Hakjoon Kim 33. North Korean Market Vendors: The Rise of Grassroots Capitalists in a Post-Stalinist Society ................................................ 711 Andrei Lankov and Kim Seok-hyang 34. Kim Country: Hard Times in North Korea ...................................... 735 Gavan McCormack Volume Three 35. Benchmarks of Economic Reform in North Korea ....................... 769 Patrick McEachern 36. The Future of the North Korean System .......................................... 787 Moon, Chung-in Kim, Yongho 37. The Kaesong North-South Korean Industrial Complex .............. 823 Dick K. Nanto and Mark E. Manyin 38. The Politics of Famine in North Korea ............................................. 853 Andrew Natsios 39. Food Security: The Case for Multisectoral and Multilateral Cooperation ............................................................................................... 877 Hazel Smith 40. North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces .................................................................................................... 899 Hazel Smith 41. The NGO Experience in North Korea ............................................... 931 Scott Snyder contents ix 42. Understanding the North Korean Political Framework ............ 947 Chul Yang Sung 43. Negotiating with North Korea: Lessons Learned and Forgotten ................................................................................................. 983 Robert Carlin 44. North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: Badges, Shields, or Swords? ............................................................................... 999 Victor D. Cha 45. Sunshine over a Barren Soil: The Domestic Politics of Engagement Identity Formation in South Korea ........................ 1025 Jong Kun Choi 46. North Korea in the Vice ...................................................................... 1045 Gavan McCormack 47. The Six Party Talks: A Russian Perspective .................................. 1069 Georgy Toloraya 48. A Political History of Soviet-North Korea Nuclear Cooperation ............................................................................................ 1091 Alexander Zhebin Index Nominum ............................................................................................ 1105.
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