North Korea And The Science Of Provocation

Author : Robert Daniel Wallace
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786499694

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North Korea and the Science of Provocation by Robert Daniel Wallace Pdf

Why does North Korea routinely turn to provocation to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the volatile Kim regime predictable, based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? This book, an examination of the "Hermit Kingdom" over the past 50 years, explains why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea uses hostility and coercion as instruments of foreign policy. Using three case studies and quantitative analysis of more than 2,000 conflict events, the author explores the relationship between North Korea's societal conditions and its propensity for external conflict. These findings are considered in light of diversionary theory, the idea that leaders use external conflict to divert attention from domestic affairs. Analyzing the actions of an isolated state such as North Korea provides a template for conflict scholarship in general.

Author : Robert Daniel Wallace
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476623146

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North Korea and the Science of Provocation by Robert Daniel Wallace Pdf

Why does North Korea routinely turn to provocation to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the volatile Kim regime predictable, based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? This book, an examination of the "Hermit Kingdom" over the past 50 years, explains why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea uses hostility and coercion as instruments of foreign policy. Using three case studies and quantitative analysis of more than 2,000 conflict events, the author explores the relationship between North Korea's societal conditions and its propensity for external conflict. These findings are considered in light of diversionary theory, the idea that leaders use external conflict to divert attention from domestic affairs. Analyzing the actions of an isolated state such as North Korea provides a template for conflict scholarship in general.

Author : Immanuel Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793608307

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Laughing North Koreans by Immanuel Kim Pdf

This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It examines the most iconic comedy films and comedians to show how North Koreans have enjoyed themselves and have established a culture of humor that challenges, subverts, and, at times, reinforces the dominant political ideology. The author argues that comedy films, popular comedians, and the viewers have an intricate interdependent relationship that shaped the film culture—the pre/post production of filmmaking, film-watching experience, and the legacies of actors—in North Korea.

Author : Tae-Hwan Kwak,Seung-Ho Joo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754648133

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The United States and the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century by Tae-Hwan Kwak,Seung-Ho Joo Pdf

This volume examines the political, security and economic aspects of the relations between the US and both the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The volume focuses in particular on the current status, salient issues and future prospects.

Author : David W. Shin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498566261

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Rationality in the North Korean Regime by David W. Shin Pdf

How and why are the Kims rational? There is no consensus about either the Kims’ rationality or how best to determine if they are rational actors. Rationality in the North Korean Regime offers a concise and finite method to assess rationality by examining over ten cases of provocations from the Korean War to the August 2015 land mine incident. The book asserts that Kim Il-sung was predominantly a rational actor, though the regime behaved irrationally at times under his rule, and that both Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un have clearly been rational actors. As a rational actor, Kim Jong-un is unlikely to give up his nuclear weapons, but this work argues he can be deterred from using them if the United States demonstrates it is willing to co-exist with his regime and pursues long-term engagement to reduce Kim’s concern that North Korea’s sovereignty needs defending from U.S. hostile policy. This could allow gradual social change within the country that could eventually lead to positive systemic change as well as soften Kim’s rule. In this regard, time may be on the side of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, but the two allies must embrace the long view and learn to be more patient or risk another conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

Author : Bruce E. BechtolJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813175904

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North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa by Bruce E. BechtolJr. Pdf

North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat -- he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it.

Author : Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137400079

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North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. Pdf

This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the challenges that it presents to international security and community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime.

Author : Andrei Lankov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199390038

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The Real North Korea by Andrei Lankov Pdf

In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive

Author : Sung Chull Kim,Michael D. Cohen
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626164543

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North Korea and Nuclear Weapons by Sung Chull Kim,Michael D. Cohen Pdf

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un’s regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D. Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan must also come to terms with the fact that North Korea will be able to deter them with its nuclear arsenal. How will the erratic Kim Jong-un behave when North Korea develops the capability to hit medium- and long-range targets with nuclear weapons? How will and should the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China respond, and what will this mean for regional stability in the short term and long term? The international group of authors in this volume address these questions and offer a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security.

Author : Geuk Lee,Daniel Howard,Jeong Jin Kang,Dominik Slezak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642326455

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Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology by Geuk Lee,Daniel Howard,Jeong Jin Kang,Dominik Slezak Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in August 2012. The 94 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on communications and networking; HCI and virtual reality; image processing and pattern recognition; hardware design and applications; computational biology and medical information; data mining and information retrieval; security and safety system; software engineering; workshop on advanced smart convergence (IWASC).

Author : Edward Howell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192888402

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North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order by Edward Howell Pdf

For a state that has gained a global reputation as a violator of international norms, not least through its unwavering pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea's determination to become a nuclear-armed state is puzzling. If nuclear weapons beget security, insecurity, and other costs for the state, how might we understand this pursuit, and the delinquent behaviour that has arisen from it? In North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order, Edward Howell offers an answer to this question, focusing on North Korea's quest for status in the international system and developing the theoretical framework of 'strategic delinquency'. Featuring previously unpublished and new interviews with international negotiators with North Korea, and drawing upon new academic literature, Howell proffers an original theoretical framework to apply to the North Korean case. Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, he makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits. In so doing, this book posits how over time, North Korea has learnt that despite the low status and opprobrium that might ensue, bad behaviour can pay.

Author : Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135116989

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North Korea, 2009-2012 by Ian Jeffries Pdf

North Korea continues to be a country of great concern internationally, where future developments are uncertain, especially as a result of the succession to the leadership of Kim Jong-un following the death of Kim Jong-il. It is also a country which is relatively unknown and relatively little studied. This book provides a comprehensive, detailed survey of economic and political developments in the last few years. As such it provides many insights into the current trends which are likely to shape the country’s future direction.

Author : Ravinder Pal Singh
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198292791

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Arms Procurement Decision Making: China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Thailand by Ravinder Pal Singh Pdf

SCOTT (copy 1): From the John Holmes collection.

Author : Robert Carlin,Chung-in Moon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666906783

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Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea by Robert Carlin,Chung-in Moon Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : OSU:32435077805190

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Korea Update by Anonim Pdf