Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations by Choe, Sang-Hun

Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931368285)

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Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations by Choe, Sang-Hun

Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations

$33.00
Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations by Choe, Sang-Hun

Troubled Transition: North Korea's Politics, Economy, and External Relations

$33.00
Format: Paperback
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Kim Jong-il once declared he would transform North Korea into a "great and powerful country" by 2012, apparently believing that nuclear weapons would compel the international community to engage on his terms. With no such prospect in sight and Kim himself now in failing health, his regime faces a multitude of intractable problems. Kim has apparently chosen his twenty-something third son as his successor, but will North Koreans accept this inexperienced young man as their leader, and will he embrace new thinking to solve the country's problems? Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes the people? Can a country so dependent on outside help continue to defy the international community?

In Troubled Transition, leading international experts examine these dilemmas, offering new insights into how a troubled North Korea may evolve in light of the ways other command economies and totalitarian statesfrom the Soviet Union and East Germany to Vietnam and Chinahave transitioned.



Author: Sang-Hun Choe
ISBN-10: 1931368287
ISBN-13: 9781931368285
Publisher: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research C
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2013
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.04w x 0.85d
By Sang-Hun Choe
By Sang-Hun Choe
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Choe Sang-Hun is a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist and Seoul bureau chief for the New York Times.

Gi-Wook Shin is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in Sociology; senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center since 2005; and the founding director of the Korea Program, all at Stanford University. As a historical-comparative and political sociologist, his research has concentrated on social movements, nationalism, development, democracy, and international relations.

David Straub is a researcher, author, and commentator on Korean Peninsula affairs and U.S.-Korea relations. Straub's current research is focused on the U.S.-ROK alliance response to the North Korea problem. He was associate director of the Korea Program at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center from 2008 to 2017.

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