Politics & Government
- Politics & Government of DPRKOn Naenara, lnks to Constitution, Leader, Parties & Public Organization, Modern Korea, and Political Summary [guiding ideology-Juche, Songun politics, political system of the state, socio-economic system, foreign policy, and more].
On the Building of the People's Government by
Speeches and reports of Kim Il-Sung dating from 1937-1961 on the building of a communist/socialist government & national agriculture, economy, industry,and military.
Call Number: DS 935.5 K492 O5 v. 1Publication Date: 1978 (Pyongyang: Foreign Langiuages Pub. House)- Kim Il Sung: the Brilliant Banner of Juche Collection of essays, organized into chapters, about Kim Il Sung's development of the concept of Juche, his philosophy, thoughts and theories; includes chapter by foreign officials and journalists extolling Kim Il Sung's ideas and the quality of life in North Korea.Call Number: DS 932.4 K49Publication Date: 1981 (Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang)
On the Building of the Workers' Party of Korea by
Speeches and reports of Kim Il-Sung from 1955-1961. Includes first formal discussion of establishment of Juche, "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" (Dec. 28, 1955, ) and speech on the progress of the Chollima Movement (Sept. 11, 1961).
Call Number: DS 935.5 K492 O5 v.2Publication Date: 1978 (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House)
[Talks, Letters, Essays, etc.] by
Various talks and essays on the role of government in socialism, Juche, Kimilsungism; agriculture, production, party building, science & technology, sports; and creating art & literature and operas in the revolutionary manner.
Call Number: DS 934.6 K44 A24 1982. Volumes 1-26 (pamphlet set)Publication Date: 1982-1992 (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House)
North Korea's Foreign Policy the Kim Jong-un Regime in a Hostile World
"Bringing together a wide range of distinguished scholars, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kim Jong-un's foreign policy strategy and its global impact, following a decade under Kim Jong-un's rule"-
Publication Date: 2023 ( Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield,)
Understanding Kim Jong-un's North Korea Regime: Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement by
"This book provides broad, deep insight into how North Korea calculates, balances, and addresses key policy challenges. The authors...have extensive experience in North Korea and with North Koreans, crucial to addressing the myths and misconceptions about how the North functions and perceives the world"
Publication Date: 2022 (Lanham : Lexington Books)
North Korea - US Relations, from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un by
Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship under Kim Jong-un culminating in 2017 and subsequent turn towards diplomacy, this book shows how North Korea has constantly learnt from its own experience and the experience of others to evolve and adapt its policy towards the US. This...edition draws on interviews and conversations with various countries' policy-makers and experts and North Korean official media stories. It has been updated to include... a study of the two bilateral summits held with President Donald Trump.
Call Number: E183.8.K7 P314 2020Publication Date: 2020 (London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) 2nd ed.
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World by
This book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula, ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals. Based on multinational and multi-archival research, the book examines the intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world.
Publication Date: 2021 ( Stanford, California : Stanford University Press)
China-North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security by
..this timely book examines China's contradictory statements and actions through the lens of developmental peace. Featuring top scholars from China and South Korea, as well as primary evidence from China, North and South Korea, it greatly improves the understanding of the current perspectives in each state, and the impact they have on this vital security relationship.
Publication Date: 2020 (Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing)
East-West Reflections on Demonization: North Korea Now, China Next? by
Fifteen essays by scholars from seven countries on the topic of "demonization -- and why to avoid it." While East and West share commonalities, their individual cultures pursue differing values and norms that in turn inflect ideas about power and authority, self and society, right and wrong, and consequently about what is good and what is bad. Failure to understand and manage these differences has led to rising East-West tensions and heightened risk of a new Cold War.
Call Number: DS935.65 .E289 2020Publication Date: 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press)
North Korea's Foreign Policy: the DPRK's part on the international scene and its audiences by
This book analyses North Korean foreign policy since 1994, aiming to better understand the part the DPRK plays in international politics. North Korea claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Both North Korea and South Korea became members of the UN in 1991. Applying the role theoretical approach to North Korea for the first time, this book charts the continuities and changes in North Korean foreign policy, drawing on content analysis of North Korean periodicals. It begins with an identification of roles, before analysing the relationship between these roles and foreign policy in practice. In particular, it examines the links between role shifts and changes in interaction with the U.S. and South Korea. This book also demonstrates that the existence of pressure, sanctions and confrontations have contributed to a confrontational, isolationist and inward-looking foreign policy. Therefore, it argues, one should be aware that if the DPRK is constantly treated as if it is a nuclear state - and even a rogue state - it is much easier for it to enact a role on the international stage which reflects this.
Call Number: DS935.775 .C35 2019 (also online)Publication Date: 2019 ( London : Routledge)
Rationality in the North Korean Regime: Understanding the Kim's Strategy of Provocation by
[This book] offers a concise and finite method to assess rationality by examining over ten cases of provocations from the Korean War to the August 2015 land mine incident. The book asserts that Kim Il-sung was predominantly a rational actor, though the regime behaved irrationally at times under his rule, and that both Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un have clearly been rational actors. As a rational actor, Kim Jong-un is unlikely to give up his nuclear weapons, but this work argues he can be deterred from using them if the United States demonstrates it is willing to co-exist with his regime and pursues long-term engagement to reduce Kim's concern that North Korea's sovereignty needs defending from U.S. hostile policy. This could allow gradual social change within the country that could eventually lead to positive systemic change as well as soften Kim's rule. In this regard, time may be on the side of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, but the two allies must embrace the long view or risk another conflict on the Korean Peninsula.
Call Number: DS935.65 .S556 2018Publication Date: 2018 ( Lanham : Lexington Books)
North Korea, Iran, and the Challenge to International Order: a Comparative Perspective by
Comparison of North Korea and Iran including Comparative history, Domestic politics, economy and ideology; Foreign and security policy and human rights; Nonproliferation; Policy implications
Call Number: JZ 5675 M39 2018Publication Date: 2018 ( London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group)
Politics and Leadership in North Korea by
This second edition has been fully revised and takes into account all the important events of the last fifteen years in North Korea, such as: endemic food shortages; the steady growth of military emphasis in both politics and ideology; the acquisition and continued development of nuclear capabilities; the implementation and eventual failure of South Korea's sunshine policy; the growth of private enterprise and a consumer economy.
Call Number: JQ1729.5.A58 B89 2018Publication Date: 2017 ( London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group)
(Politics & Gov.'t, cont.)
- Diplomacy with North Korea: a Status ReportCongressional Research Service report., 2020
- Evaluating Sanctions Enforcement and Policy Options on North KoreaHearing before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sept. 7, 2017.
North Korea and the World: Human Rights, Arms Control and Strategies for Negotiation by
".... North Korea presents some of the world's most difficult foreign policy challenges. Given that a new president will soon occupy the White House, policy expert Walter C. Clemens Jr. argues that now is the time to reconsider US diplomatic efforts in North Korea. ...... After assessing nine other policy options, he makes the case for engagement and negotiation with the regime."
Call Number: DS 935.7778 C54 2016Publication Date: 2016 (Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky)
Crisis in a Divided Korea: a Chronology and Reference Guide by
Topical chapters from "The Hermit Kingdom" to aftermath of Korean War. Chronology 1866-2016. Biographies of 29 politicians, foreign policy makers, & military leaders. 25 primary documents included.
Call Number: Full-text online; click on title.Publication Date: 2016 (Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO)
Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics: Problems and Alternatives by
"This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western popular imagination's engagement with North Korea. Building on works by feminist-postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films, photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from an intercultural perspective."
Call Number: DS 935.5 C52 2015Publication Date: 2014 (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge)
Understanding North Korea: Indigenous Perspectives by
Thirteen South Korean experts and scholars on North Korea analyze the development of North Korea's "monolithic political system and its main characteristics," changes in society from economic policies & social transformation, foreign policy & perception of the U..S., and relationship with South Korea, the U.S., and Northeast Asia.
Call Number: HN 730.6 A8 U53 2014Publication Date: 2014 (Lanham: Lexington Books)
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by
After providing an accessible history of the nation, he turns his focus to what North Korea is, what its leadership thinks, and how its people cope with living in such an oppressive and impoverished place. He argues that North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. A living political fossil, it clings to existence in the face of limited resources and a zombie economy, manipulating great powers despite its weakness..."
Call Number: DS935.774 .L36 2013Publication Date: 2013 (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press)
Origins of North Koreas Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development by
"[This book] argues that [North Korea] has survived because of Juche, a unique political institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans experiences with colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers.... The authors in this volume collectively provide an historical institutionalist account of North Korean politics organized around the concept of Juche commonly translated as self-reliance, but best understood as subjecthood or being a master of one's own fate. This volume traces the historical processes through which Juche has developed into the North's central organizing principle that shapes not only politics and economy but also everyday life."
Call Number: DS 935.55 O75 2013Publication Date: 2013 (Lanham: Lexington Books)
North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics by
"This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea's political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country's unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung's rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim's charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North Korean leaders sovereignty now to a third generation. In defiance of the instability to which so many revolutionary states eventually succumb, the durability of charismatic politics in North Korea defines its exceptional place in modern history. Kwon and Chung make an innovative contribution to comparative socialism and postsocialism as well as to the anthropology of the state."
Call Number: JQ 1729.5 A58 K86 2012Publication Date: 2012 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
North Korea Demystified by
...This book, recommended by Alternative Nobel Prize winner Johan Galuting, is a response to this problem. It takes as its point of departure the notion that all leaders and governments, no matter how odd or dysfunctional their behavior may seem, act in a fundamentally rational matter-but that this rationality must be put into context in order to be properly understood. That is, their rationality is not independent of their historical experience, their culture, their value structure, or their institutional constraints, and all of these things must be considered in order to discover the rationality behind the decision making that appears on its surface to be so 'irrational' and/or 'dangerous.' Only by understanding this can these policy responses be rendered intelligible, perhaps even predictable.
Call Number: JQ1729.5.A91 N67 2012Publication Date: 2012 ( Amherst, New York : Cambria Press)
- Coercion, Control, Surveillance, and Punishment(Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, 2012) North Korea’s
three main internal security agencies, the State Security Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Military Security Command.
North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance by
The author studies the political background and development of Kim Jong-Il's leadership from a psychological perspective, and the resulting implications and changes for the Party, the military, the Juche ideology, economics & entrepreneurship, and roles of intellectuals.
Call Number: JQ 1729.5 A58 K555 2006. Also full-text online: click on title.Publication Date: 2006 (Albany: State University of New York Press)
North Korea Through the Looking Glass by
"Drawing on more than ten years of research, including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who [defected], [the authors] 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..." The book covers the "power & poverty" of Ideology, the economy, the leader and his party & people; the military; social control, foreign relations, and "dealing with the DPRK."
Call Number: DS 935.5 O45x 2000. This book is located in Olin Library. Also full-text online: click on title.Publication Date: 2000 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press)
