Full Description
The contributors discuss Soviet-North Korean nuclear relations, economic and military aspects of the nuclear programme, the nuclear energy sector, North Korea's negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, co-operative security, and US policy. Focusing on North Korean attitudes and perspectives, the text also includes Russian interviews with North Korean officials.
Contents
Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, 1. Russia, North Korea, and U.S. Policy toward the Nuclear Crisis, Part I. The History of the North Korean Nuclear Program, 2. A Technical History of Soviet-North Korean Nuclear Relations, 3. Nuclear Institutions and Organizations in North Korea, 4. A Political History of Soviet-North Korean Nuclear Cooperation, Part II. The Economic Context of the North Korean Nuclear Program, 5. Economic Aspects of the North Korean Nuclear Program, 6. The North Korean Energy Sector, 7. Economic Factors and the Stability of the North Korean Regime, 8. The Natural Disasters of the Mid-1990s and Their Impact on the Implementation of the Agreed Framework, Part III. Political and Military Factors behind the North Korean Nuclear Program, 9. Nuclear Blackmail and North Koreas Search for a Place in the Sun, 10. Military-Strategic Aspects of the North Korean Nuclear Program, 11. Leadership Politics in North Korea and the Nuclear Program, Part IV. The International Context of the North Korean Nuclear Program, 12. North Korea's Decision to Develop an Independent Nuclear Program, 13. North Korea and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, 14. North Koreas Negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), 15. China and the Korean Peninsula: Managing an Unstable Triangle, 16. The Korean Peninsula and the Security of Russia's Primorskiy Kray (Maritime Province), Part V. Unsettled Problems and Future Issues, 17. The Renewal of Russian-North Korean Relations, 18. The Korean Peninsula: From Inter-Korean Confrontation to a System of Cooperative Security, 19. Russian Views of the Agreed Framework and the Four-Party Talks, 20. Pyongyang's Stake in the Agreed Framework, Notes, Contributors, Index