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Explores both sides of issues related to Korea and its relationship with the United States, including the military threat from North Korea, human rights violations, and the likelihood of reunification

This volume attempts to multiply the angles from which we can look at North Korea by reassessing the international environment in which it is placed, the process of production of its culture, and the historical paths it followed. Due to the new approach the volume takes, reading these pages will be an eye-opening experience not only for experts, but also for lay readers and anyone who is interested in peace keeping in Korea, Northeast Asia, and beyond.

"This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources. With a focus on five major areas-population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture-the authors examine the preconditions that led to the emergence of ideas related to urban sustainability, assess and reassess the trends in sustainable development brought about by market forces, and recommend paths for their further intensification. Since this work covers a variety of topics, ranging from geomancy and social control to economic issues and green architecture (both locally and in comparison with European post-socialist cities and South Korea), it will point to lessons that other countries could learn from. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public who have a regional interest in North Korea, Korean unification, and East Asia as a whole; and/or a topical interest in urban studies, urban sustainability, and post-socialist urban transformation"--

A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world significance. This volume offers a major reappraisal of the changing relationship between North Korea and its neighboring powers in the post-Cold War era in both theoretical and practical terms. The contributors examine the complex interplay of global, regional, and national forces that have influenced and shaped the changing patterns of conflict and cooperation in North Korea's relationships with China, Russia, and Japan and with the United States. Within the context of Northeast Asian geopolitics, the book tracks, explains, and assesses North Korea's survival strategies in both the security and economic domains, as well as the prospects of these strategies in the coming years

Intro -- ENGAGEMENT WITH NORTH KOREA -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION: Engagement as a Viable Alternative to Coercion -- PART I. INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION -- 2. WAITING TO REAP THE FINAL HARVEST: U.S. Engagement Policy to Denuclearize North Korea -- 3. LOOKING EAST: China's Policy toward the Korean Peninsula -- 4. JAPAN'S NORTH KOREA POLICY: The Dilemma of Coercion -- 5. RUSSIA AND NORTH KOREA: The Dilemma of Engagement -- 6. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OFNORTH KOREA'S EXTERNAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- PART II. THE INTER-KOREAN DIMENSION -- 7. THE STATE-BUSINESS COALITION FOR SOUTH KOREA'S ENGAGEMENT WITH NORTH KOREA -- 8. BUSINESS ADVANCES TO NORTH KOREA AS OUTWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT -- 9. FROM CHARITY TO PARTNERSHIP: South Korean NGO Engagement with North Korea -- 10. NORTH KOREA'S SOUTH KOREA POLICY: Tactical Change, Strategic Consistency -- 11. CONCLUSION: Engagement in 2007 and Beyond -- EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Featuring contributions by some of the leading experts in Korean studies, this book examines the political content of Kim Jong-Il's regime maintenance, including both the domestic strategy for regime survival and North Korea's foreign relations with South Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. It considers how and why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a ""hermit kingdom"" in the name of Juche (self-reliance) ideology, and the potential for the barriers of isolationism to endure. This up-to-date analysis of the DPRK's domestic and external policy linkages also

Intro -- NORTH KOREA: CONDITIONS, ISSUES AND U.S. RELATIONS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: NORTH KOREA: U.S. RELATIONS, NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY, AND INTERNAL SITUATION -- SUMMARY -- LATEST DEVELOPMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- OBAMA ADMINISTRATION NORTH KOREA POLICY -- NORTH KOREAN BEHAVIOR 2009-2013 -- BACKGROUND: HISTORY OF NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS -- NORTH KOREA'S INTERNAL SITUATION -- OTHER U.S. CONCERNS WITH NORTH KOREA -- U.S. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES WITH NORTH KOREA -- Chapter 2: MILITARY AND SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION ONE: ASSESSMENT OF THE SECURITY SITUATION -- SECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA'S STRATEGY -- SECTION THREE: FORCE MODERNIZATION GOALS AND TRENDS -- SECTION FOUR: SIZE, LOCATION, AND CAPABILITIES OF NORTH KOREAN MILITARY FORCES -- SECTION FIVE: PROLIFERATION -- Chapter 3: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 2013 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION 1. RESPECT FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON, INCLUDING FREEDOM FROM -- SECTION 2. RESPECT FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, INCLUDING -- SECTION 3. RESPECT FOR POLITICAL RIGHTS: THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO CHANGE THEIR GOVERNMENT -- SECTION 4. CORRUPTION AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT -- SECTION 5. GOVERNMENTAL ATTITUDE REGARDING INTERNATIONAL AND NONGOVERNMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- SECTION 6. DISCRIMINATION, SOCIETAL ABUSES, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS -- SECTION 7.WORKER RIGHTS -- Chapter 4: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (DPRK) 2012 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION I. RELIGIOUS DEMOGRAPHY -- SECTION II. STATUS OF GOVERNMENT RESPECT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- GOVERNMENT PRACTICES -- SECTION III. STATUS OF SOCIETAL RESPECT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.