Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea: Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement

This book provides a comprehensive and insightful look into North Korea's policy challenges, offering valuable insights from authors with extensive experience in the country. It addresses misconceptions and sheds light on the inter-relationship of different aspects of North Korean society, providing critical insights at a crucial policy juncture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 350 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

This comprehensive book aims to offer the reader an exceptionally profound and comprehensive understanding of North Korea, showcasing how the Kim Jong-un regime navigates, balances, and addresses a diverse range of critical policy challenges. The authors, hailing from Korea, Europe, and America, possess extensive firsthand experience in North Korea and have deep connections with its people. Their expertise is invaluable in dispelling myths and misconceptions that have accumulated over the years about North Korea's functioning and worldview.

Conventional approaches that narrowly focus on specific issues, such as nuclear or economic matters, fail to capture the intricate interdependence of these different aspects in understanding the entirety of North Korea. The book's extensive experience and comprehensive coverage provide crucial insights into North Korea at a pivotal juncture when policy decisions in Seoul and Washington are shaping the country's future. By delving into the complexities of North Korea's politics, economy, society, and culture, the book offers valuable perspectives that can inform and guide policymakers as they navigate the challenging terrain of engagement with North Korea.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666906776