Routledge handbook of contemporary North Korea / Adrian Buzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buzo, Adrian, author.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea (North)--History.

Korea (North).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea presents a comprehensive picture of contemporary North Korea, placed in historical context and set against the overlapping fields of politics, economy, culture, society and foreign relations. Spanning a period of significant transition for North Korea, this volume provides accurate analysis and applications of both historical and institutional perspectives. The volume's nineteen chapters are representative of the growth in North Korean studies that has occurred since the 1990s, in parallel with the growing maturity of the field in South Korea, as well as with far greater levels of access to North Korean sources. The volume is divided into five sections, each reflecting an emergent area of debate and research: The Political Perspective The North Korean Economy Foreign Relations Society Culture This is the first anthology of North Korean studies to demonstrate a clear understanding of North Korea as North Korea, as opposed to a dimly perceived and threatening rogue state. It features contributors both Korean and non-Korean, many working from primary source material. As such, this handbook will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of Northeast Asian studies, modern Korean history and politics, and comparative politics more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Figures

Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: understanding North Korea

Introduction

Part I The political perspective

Part II The North Korean economy

Part III Foreign relations

Part IV Society

Part V Culture

Summing up

Part I

The political perspective

2 The evolution of the North Korean socio-political system, 1945-1994

Introduction: the legacy of the colonial era

The Soviet occupation and the founding of the DPRK

The Soviet occupation and the trusteeship issue

The complexities of national legitimacy and national unification

State-society conflict before and during the Korean War

The purge of the "southern faction": a fatal precedent

North Korea's divergence from East European de-Stalinization

A growing rift within the leadership

From confrontation to purge

The creation of the sŏngbun system

The sŏngbun system: analogies and sources of inspiration

The initial guerrilla coalition: a precarious equilibrium

The disintegration of guerrilla solidarity

From partisan family state to intra-family purge

From purges to consolidation: the last phase of the Kim Il Sung era

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

3 Masters of survival: North Korean leadership in a hostile world

Kim Jong Il comes to power

A collapsing economy and the dilemma of reform

Marketization from below

The government's position on marketization from below

Nuclear weapons as a security guarantee and diplomacy tool

Kim Jong Un takes office

Dealing with threats from within: forestalling a palace coup

Dealing with threats from within: neutralizing the threat of civil rebellion

Dealing with threats from outside

Notes.

References

4 Political economy and ideology under Kim Jong Un

Introduction: the inseparability of politics and the economy

Setting the tone: the annual New Year speeches, 2012-2019

The regime's economic self-perception: parliamentary sessions and budget reports

A deep dive into North Korean society: Kim Jong un's report to the Seventh Party Congress

Conclusion: from "military-first" to "all for economic development"

Part II

The North Korean economy

5 The structural transformation of the North Korean economic planning system

Material balance planning and the North Korean economy under Kim Il Sung

Adjusting the North Korean economic planning process

Foreign trade and the spread of markets

The Kim Jong Un-era planning reforms

6 Between the markets and the state: North Korea's fragile agriculture and food supply

Historical background

North Korean food production in the 2000s

The methodology of measuring food production, and why it matters

Food as a problem of entitlements

Agriculture under Kim Jong Un: changes, but to what extent?

7 North Korea's interaction with the global economy

Historical context

The North Korean way of doing business

Ramifications for the future

Part III

Foreign relations

8 "The enemies made this possible": Sino-North Korean relations after 1948

9 Nuclear weapons and North Korean foreign policy

Atomic undercurrents: drivers, motives and interests

Nuclear strategy and national goals

North Korea's evolving nuclear strategy

A strategy for political, diplomatic and economic goals

A catalytic strategy

Assured retaliation

Fighting a nuclear war

Conclusion.

Disclaimer

Note

10 North Korea's nuclear diplomacy

The characteristics of North Korean diplomacy

The development of North Korea's nuclear program

The North lunges toward nuclear weapons during the Six Party Talks

The September 2005 Agreement

Close to agreement in 2008

The Kim Jong Un era

11 Revival of an old friendship: contemporary North Korea-Russia relations

North Korea in Russia's Asia-Pacific strategy

North Korean security and the Russian Federation's interests

Post-Cold War DPRK-Russia economic relations

12 Once more with feeling: the US-DPRK dialogue, 1993-2020

The past history of US-DPRK negotiation

The Singapore meeting

The Hanoi summit

After Hanoi

The shape of things to come

Part IV

Society

13 Human rights and North Korea

Human rights on a divided peninsula

Rights and the armistice

North Korean human rights: the 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry

History of present-day violations

Right to food, freedom from hunger: the 1990s famine

Structural discrimination

Religious persecution

Freedom of information

Freedom of assembly

Freedom of movement

Physical integrity violations

14 The "market value" of people in North Korea

Changes in North Korea since 1990

Market value based on social origin and KWP membership

Expulsion to rural areas

North Koreans exposed to outside contact

North Koreans with connections to China, Russia and South Korea

Other low market value people: women and LGBTQ people

The disabled

Some changes in calculating the market value of people in North Korea

15 Child mass mobilization in North Korea

Age group and size of child labor workforce in North Korea

UN criticism of child mobilization and North Korea's response

16 The North Korean Diaspora

Describing contemporary North Korean migration and resettlement

Factors that shape North Korean migration and resettlement

A North Korean diaspora?

Regime calculations and diasporic politics: implications for North Korea and the world

Part V

Culture

17 The evolution of cultural policy and practice in North Korea, seen through the journal Chosŏn ŭmak [Korean Music]

Chosŏn ŭmak, the journal

The times were a'changing: Juche and Chollima

Composers and crafting compositions

Squaring circles: traditional music becomes national music

18 Love of the lover, love of the Leader: youth romance in North Korean fiction

Studying at Kim Il Sung University: a personal note

Loving the model worker: themes of youth romance in early period North Korean fiction

The 1980s and the flawed revolutionary in North Korean fiction: political context

A triptych of three exemplary North Korean novels of the 1980s

19 Mass culture in the Kim Jong Un era: continuities and changes

Like father like son: rejuvenation after Kim Jong Il

Old topics, new ways

The Leader at the center

Fatherly Leader to the nation's children

The Leader as a driving force for spring

Rationalization of Kim Jong Un's unusual leadership style

References.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (Routledge, viewed December 30, 2022).

ISBN:

0-429-80399-0

0-429-44076-6

9780429440762

OCLC:

1201384523