North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival

List of Tables 1. Staying Power of the Socialist "Hermit Kingdom," Young Whan Kihl Part I. Domestic Politics and Political Economy 2. Emergence of the Second Republic: The Kim Regime Adapts to the Challenge of Modernity, Alexandre Y. Mansourov 3. Kim Jong Il's Military First Politics, Ilpyong J. Kim 4. Reconciling Nuclear Standoff and Economic Shortfalls: Pyongyang's Perspective, C. Kenneth Quinones 5. North Korea's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Larry A. Niksch 6. North Korea's Economic Crisis, Reforms, and Policy Implications, Dick K. Nanto Part II. The Politics of Foreign Relations 7. U.S.-DPRK Relations in the Kim Jong Il Era, Robert A. Scalapino 8. Japanese-North Korean Relations Under the Koizumi Government, Hong Nack Kim 9. Sino-North Korean Relations in the Post-Cold War World, Samuel S. Kim 10. Russo-North Korean Relations Under Kim Jong Il, Peggy Falkenheim Meyer 11. North Korea-South Korea Relations in the Kim Jong Il Era, Seongji Woo Part III. Future Prospects 12. (Bi-) Multilateral Approaches to Defusing Nuclear Crisis: Beyond the Six-Party Talks as Peace Strategy, Young Whan Kihl 13. Why Hasn't North Korea Collapsed? Understanding the Recent Past, Thinking About the Future, Nicholas Eberstadt Appendix Select Bibliography List of Contributors Index.