• Editor's Foreword; Preface; Reader's Note; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Map; Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Appendix A. Korean Armistice Agreement
• 27 July 1953; Appendix B. North-South Joint Declaration
• 4 July 1972; Appendix C. Agreed Framework between the United States of. America and the Democratic People's Republic of. Korea
• 21 October 1994; Appendix D. June
• 2000 North-South Joint Declaration; Appendix E. DPRK-United States Joint CommuniquéWashington, D.C. October 12, 2000.

• Appendix F. DPRK-Japan September2002 Pyongyang DeclarationAppendix G. Six Party Talks Joint Statement
• 19 September 2005; Appendix H. Six Party Talks Joint Statement Beijing
• 13 February 2007;
• Appendix I. Resolution
• 1874 (2009) Adopted by the Security Council at Its 6141st Meeting,
• 12 June 2009; Bibliography; About the Author.

The Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea provides a clear and easily understood history of the DPRK, also known as North Korea. It examines the historic roots of the country from the 1800s up to the death of Kim Jong Il. There are factual essays on leaders such as Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, as well as some of their supporters and opponents, on organizations such as the Korean Worker's Party, the Supreme People's Assembly (parliament), and on the lives and livelihood of the people. Issues such as the DPRK nuclear and missile programs are also explained. This reference includes a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important personalities, leading political figures, institutions, economic enterprises, ethnic communities, and cultural features. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; A Note on Korean Names;
• 1. WHERE THE WILD BIRDS SING; The Emergence of Two Koreas; War and Its Aftermath; The Origins of Negotiation; Kim Il Sung; Conversations with the South;
• 2. THE END OF THE BEGINNING; Park Chung Hee; Washington Blinks at Park's Coup; The Impact of Yushin;
• 3. THE TROUBLE DEEPENS; Tensions Increase; The Struggle with Japan; The Underground War; Challenge from the North; Echoes of Saigon; The South Korean Nuclear Weapons Program; Murder in the Demilitarized Zone.

• 4. THE CARTER CHILLCarter's Withdrawal: Origins and Implementation; The View from Pyongyang; End of the Carter Withdrawal;
• 5. ASSASSINATION AND AFTERMATH; Growing Domestic Tensions; The Coming of Chun Doo Hwan; The Kwangju Uprising; The Fight to Save Kim Dae Jung;
• 6. TERROR AND TALK; The Negotiating Track; Floods and Face-to-Face Talks; Kim Il Sung and the Soviet Connection;
• 7. THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SEOUL; Chun's Succession Struggle; The Election of 1987;
• 8. THE GREAT OLYMPIC COMING-OUT PARTY; The Coming of the Olympics; The Bombing of KAL Flight 858; The Rise of Nordpolitik.

• Washington Launches a Modest Initiative9. MOSCOW SWITCHES SIDES; The Roots of Change; Gorbachev Meets Roh; The Shevardnadze Mission; "How Long Will the Red Flag Fly?"; Soviet-South Korean Economic Negotiations;
• 10. CHINA SHIFTS ITS GROUND; A Visit to North Korea; China Changes Course;
• 11. JOINING THE NUCLEAR ISSUE; The Origins of the Nuclear Program; Nuclear Diplomacy: The American Weapons; First Steps; The December Accords; Meeting in New York; The Coming of the Inspectors; First Inspections; From Accommodation to Crisis;
• 12. WITHDRAWAL AND ENGAGEMENT; The Light-Water-Reactor Plan.

• Kim Young Sam Blows the WhistleThe Season of Crisis Begins;
• 13. SHOWDOWN OVER NUCLEAR WEAPONS; The Defueling Crisis; The Military Track; The Deepening Conflict; Carter in Pyongyang;
• 14. DEATH AND ACCORD; The End of an Era; The Succession of Kim Jong Il; The Framework Negotiations; Fallout from the Agreed Framework; The Kim Jong Il Regime; Visit to Pyongyang; The Struggle over the Reactors;
• 15. NORTH KOREA IN CRISIS; Political Earthquake in Seoul; Summit Diplomacy and the Four-Party Proposal; The Submarine Incursion; North Korea's Steep Decline; The Passage of Hwang Jang Yop.

• The Two Koreas in Time of Trouble16. TURN TOWARD ENGAGEMENT; Into the Heavens, Under the Earth; Toward an Aid-Based State; Perry to the Rescue; Toward the June Summit; Summit in Pyongyang; Engaging the United States;
• 17. THE END OF THE AGREED FRAMEWORK; A Rocky Start; The Impact of 9/11; Threads Come Together: Japan-North Korea Talks; Slouching Toward the Cliff; Kim Jong Il's Progress; The Unquiet Americans; The Morning After;
• 18. TROUBLE IN THE US-ROK ALLIANCE; Problems for Diplomacy; Sunshine, Barely; Tensions Rise; The Six-Party Mirage; Nuclear Peek-a-Boo; A Year of Zigzags.

Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted, and threatened to embroil, the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction with Korea expert Robert Carlin, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer grippingly describes how a historically homogenous people became locked in a perpetual struggle for supremacy, and how they might yet be reconciled.
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• Introduction: North Korea: politics, economy and society-- Part I. Jettisoning Caricatures: Understanding History--
• 1. Beyond the cliches--
• 2. National identity-- Part II. The Rise and Fall of Kim Il Sungism:
• 3. Colonial occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung--
• 4. War-fighting as state-building--
• 5. 'Socialism in our own style'--
• 6. Sisyphus as economic model--
• 7. Social stratification in the workers' state--
• 8. Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism-- Part III. Marketisation and Military Rule:
• 9. Marketisation from below--
• 10. Military rule from above--
• 11. The marketisation of well-being--
• 12. The marketisation of the social structure--
• 13. Going nuclear--
• 14. Strategic paralysis--
• 15. North Koreans as agents of change-- Bibliography-- Index.
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In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations and values of the entire society, including Party members, the military, women and men, the young and the elderly. Smith shows how the daily life of North Koreans has become alienated from the daily pronouncements of the North Korean government. Challenging stereotypes of twenty-five million North Koreans as mere bystanders in history, Smith argues that North Koreans are 'neither victims nor villains' but active agents of their own destiny.
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• 1 Looking Backward 1
• 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology 12
• 3 The Turning Point Economy 41
• 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People 81
• 5 The Military: Pillar of Society 105
• 6 Social Control 127
• 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom 148
• 8 Dealing with the DPRK 185.

Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country and its culture seem to be dominated exclusively by the official ideology of Juche, which emphasizes national self-reliance, independence, and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong Il. Yet this socialist utopian ideal is pursued with the calculations of international power politics. Kim has transformed North Korea into a militarized state, whose nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and continued threat to South Korea have raised alarm worldwide. This paradoxical combination of cultural isolation and military-first policy has left the North Korean people woefully deprived of the opportunity to advance socially and politically. The socialist economy, guided by political principles and bereft of international support, has collapsed. Thousands, perhaps millions, have died of starvation. Foreign trade has declined and the country's gross domestic product has recorded negative growth every year for a decade. Yet rather than initiate the sort of market reforms that were implemented by other communist governments, North Korean leaders have reverted to the economic policies of the 1950s: mass mobilization, concentration on heavy industry, and increased ideological indoctrination. Although members of the political elite in Pyongyang are acutely aware of their nation's domestic and foreign problems, they are plagued by fear and policy paralysis. North Korea Through the Looking Glass sheds new light on this remote and peculiar country. Drawing on more than ten years of research --including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who made the painful decision to defect from their homeland --Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig explore what the leadership and the masses believe about their current predicament. Through dual themes of persistence and illusion, they explore North Korea's stubborn adherence to policies that have failed to serve the welfare of the people and, consequently, threaten the future of the regime. Featuring twenty-nine rare and candid photos taken from within the closely guarded country, North Korea Through the Looking Glass illuminates the human society of a country too often mischaracterized for its drab uniformity --not a "state, " but a community of twenty million individuals who have, through no fault of their own, fallen on exceedingly hard times.
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A comprehensive settlement of the North Korean nuclear issue may involve military, economic, political, and diplomatic components, many of which will require verification to ensure reciprocal implementation. This paper sets out potential verification methodologies that might address a wide range of objectives. The inspection requirements set by the International Atomic Energy Agency form the foundation, first as defined at the time of the Agreed Framework in 1994, and now as modified by the events since revelation of the North Korean uranium enrichment program in October 2002. In addition, refreezing the reprocessing facility and 5 MWe reactor, taking possession of possible weapons components and destroying weaponization capabilities add many new verification tasks. The paper also considers several measures for the short-term freezing of the North's nuclear weapon program during the process of negotiations, should that process be protracted. New inspection technologies and monitoring tools are applicable to North Korean facilities and may offer improved approaches over those envisioned just a few years ago. These are noted, and potential bilateral and regional verification regimes are examined.

• Part I: Recent Developments on the Korean Peninsula Part II: Topics on the North Korean Economy Part III: Prospects for Economic Development in North Korea Part IV: Topics on Korean Unification and Economic Integration Part IV: Economic Co-operation with the DPRK: Challenges and Opportunities Part V: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Mention North Korea to people today and they will conjure up many unflattering images, particularly in the wake of George W. Bush denouncing the state as part of an "axis of evil". Despite this cold war type rhetoric, the state of North Korea has begun to recognise the difficult challenges that it faces and is now trying to get to grips with them systematically. This book brings together a selection of many of the world experts on the North Korean economy and covers such important issues as: *possible unification with South Korea *the significance of China's economic success *Europe and the United States' roles in North Korea North Korea in the World Economy provides an accessible, well-written and comprehensive account of this unique country and its economy. It will be extremely interesting not only for students and academics with an interest in Korean studies, international finance and transition economies but also for anyone with an interest in international economics.
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