Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea

Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement

Chung-in Moon editor Robert Carlin editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:15th Sep '22

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This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished through the extensive experience of the authors—Korean, European, and American—in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no substitute for such direct experience in order to address the numerous myths and misconceptions that have grown up and persisted over the years about how the North functions, and how it perceives the world. Moreover, the usual focus on a single issue—for example, just nuclear or just economic matters—fails to provide a sense of how important the inter-relationship of these separate parts is in understanding the whole. The experience brought to bear in the book and the breadth of coverage provides badly needed, critical insights about North Korea at time when policy in Seoul and Washington toward the North is at a crucial hinge point.

ISBN: 9781666906776

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 25mm

Weight: 640g

350 pages