pt. 1. Introduction -- Security dilemma & the succession -- Levels of analysis & the study of North Korea's foreign policy -- pt. 2. Security dilemma and the launch of the succession -- The Sino-American normalization & the official launch of the succession from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, 1978-1981 -- Getting approval for the succession, 1982-1984 -- North Korea siding with the former Soviet Union, 1985-1989 -- Nuclear program & Kim Il Sung's death -- pt. 3. North Korea's nuclear diplomacy & the surrounding countries -- Provocations & signals : variations between verbal & actual provocations -- Risk-taking vis-à-vis the United States : the second nuclear crisis -- China in the North Korean nuclear quagmire : is China influential? -- Russia in North Korea's foreign policy -- Japan in North Korea's foreign policy -- South Korea in North Korea's foreign policy -- pt. 4. Prospect -- The future of North Korea's foreign policy
Summary
North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception stemming from various security dilemma, and a very real concern regarding another father-to-son succession. This volume views North Korea's external and domestic threats as causes and its provocative foreign policy as an effect of the causes. The security dilemma has impelled North Korea to generate
