The North Korean Nuclear Weapons Crisis : The Nuclear Taboo Revisited? / Jina Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jina (Associate research fellow)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Korea (North).

Nuclear weapons.

Korea (North).

Physical Description:

vii, 217 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This book explores how North Korea's unique political culture and ideology constructed its approach to the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and how its interests in developing nuclear weapons program was shaped by its interactions with the international community. By showing repetitive patterns throughout the first and the second crisis and the constitutive mechanism that led to North Korea's noncompliance to the international norm, Kim puts forward a compelling interpretation of the North Korean nuclear crisis with far-reaching consequences for future action and debate. Examining the international, regional, and domestic variables which Pyongyang used to rationalize its pursuit of a nuclear weapons program, this book shows the dialectical development of the North Korean nuclear crisis and analyzes what caused a recurrence of similar patterns in North Korea's behaviour. Understanding the obstacles generated by complex internal Korean dynamics and conflicting interests amongst the major players concerned, Jina Kim outlines key policy implications and better ways in which to resolve the crisis. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Toward a Critique of the Nuclear Taboo 5

Puzzles 5

Constructivist Approaches 8

Understanding the Nuclear Taboo 11

2 Context of the First Nuclear Crisis (1991-94) 15

Beginning of the Crisis (-1991) 16

Declaration of Forsaking NPT Membership (1992-93) 23

Toward the Agreed Framework in Geneva (1994-) 28

Dialectical Development of Crisis 33

3 Negative Identification 42

Juche Identity and Political Ideology 43

Legacy of the Cold War Paradigm and Failed Diplomacy 48

Triangular Relationship and Ambivalence 57

Fixed Image and Collective Action 63

4 Negative Interaction 69

Politicization and "Class Struggle" Outlook 69

Inattention and Condemnation 75

Uncoordinated Approaches among Multiple Players 83

Parallax View and Incompatible Goals 87

5 Context of the Second Nuclear Crisis 99

Assessment of the First Crisis 100

Implications for the Second Crisis 104

6 Repetitive Patterns of the Crisis 118

Negative Identification 118

Negative Interaction 131.

ISBN:

9781137386533

1137386533

OCLC:

870285706