North Korea's military-diplomatic campaigns, 1966-2008 / Narushige Michishita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michishita, Narushige.

Series:

Routledge security in Asia Pacific series ; 12.

Routledge security in Asia Pacific series ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Korea (North)--Military policy.

Korea (North).

Military policy.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Korea (North).

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy.

Korea (North)--Foreign relations--20th century.

Korea (North)--Foreign relations--21st century.

Korea (North)--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xviiii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Summary:

This book examines North Korea's nuclear diplomacy over a long time period from the early 1960s, setting the dangerous brinkmanship in the wider context of North Korea's military and diplomatic campaigns to achieve its political goals. It argues that the last four decades of military adventurism demonstrates Pyongyang's consistent, calculated use of military tools to advance strategic objectives vis--̉vis its adversaries. It shows how recent behavior of the North Korean government is entirely consistent with its behavior over this longer period: the North Korean government's conduct (rather than being haphazard or reactive) is rational-in the Clausewitzian sense of being ready to use force as an extension of diplomacy by other means. The book goes on to demonstrate that North Korea's "calculated adventurism" has come full circle: what we are seeing now is a modified repetition of earlier events-such as the Pueblo incident of 1968 and the nuclear and missile diplomacy of the 1990s, Using extensive interviews in the United States and South Korea, including those with defected North Korean government officials, alongside newly declassified first-hand material from U.S., South Korean, and former Communist-bloc archives, the book argues that while North Korea's military-diplomatic campaigns have become more intensified its policy objectives have become more conservative, aimed at regime survival, normalization of relations with the United States and Japan, as well as obtaining economic aid.

Contents:

1 North Korea's military-diplomatic campaigns 7

2 Assaults along the Demilitarized Zone, 1966-68 17

3 The Pueblo incident, 1968 33

4 The West Sea incident, 1973-76 52

5 The Axe Murder incident, 1976 73

6 Nuclear diplomacy, 1993-94 93

7 Missile diplomacy, 1998-2000 117

8 Assaults on the Korean Armistice, 1993-2002 138

9 Nuclear Diplomacy, round two, 2002-08 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415449434

041544943X

9780203870587

0203870581

OCLC:

316099338