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