Research Catalog

Title

North Korea : uneasy, shaky Kim Jong-il regime / [editor Chong Bong-uk].

Publication

Seoul, Korea : Naewoe Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chong, Bong-uk.

Description

269 pages; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Uneasy, shaky Kim Jong-il regime

Subject

• Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011
• Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011
• Kim, Chŏng-il, 1941-2011
• 89.40 internal relations of the state: general
• Politics and government
• Politieke situatie
• Sociale aspecten
• Voedselvraagstuk
• Krijgsmacht
• Korea (North) > Politics and government
• Korea (North)
• Nordkorea

Note

• "A selection from Vantage Point" - cover
• "May, 1997"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Politics. A prelude to another brinkmanship -- Is supreme commander Kim really in charge? -- Little change in politics: a year after Kim Il-sung's death -- Does Pyongyang really want peace? -- Pyongyang leadership structure still in deep mystery -- Is food situation in North Korea so serious? -- Still loyal to late Kim's teachings -- Can Kim's kingdom be inherited and sustained? -- Is the ruling function of the workers' party in trouble? -- Is a campaign under way to promote Jr. Kim's image as leader? -- 10,000 party cadres gather in four-day meeting -- Evident are disputes between Pyongyang policymakers -- Red banner philosophy as Kim Jong-il's ruling tool. 2. Economics. North Korea's foreign trade remains bleak -- Short power supply is a factor behind sagging economy -- Is there any hope for the slumping North Korea economy? -- Is North Korea ready to open up its market? -- Pyongyang's foreign trade shrinks again in 1995
• North Korea economy continues to shrink -- Anti-south policies hurt Rajin-Sonbong projects -- Excess spending on political programs ruining the economy -- Can kim Jong-il tackle serious economic throubles? 3. Social affairs. Is "atheist" North Korea becoming flexible to religion -- Not paradise, but hell -- Workers in "paradise" mobilized for labor -- Resorting to ideological indoctrination for survival -- The image of North Korea as presented in its newspapers -- The stronger the grip, the more torrential the leakage -- North Korean army building more grain warehouses -- North Korean filmmakers preoccupied with idolizing "heroes" -- Is North Korea a paradise for women? -- Youth Day functions indicate rise in juvenile problems -- Is North Korea heading for disintegration? 4. Military & nuclear weapons. North Korea mass-producing chemical weapons -- Reactors in North Korea to be built by South Korea
• North Korea takes provocative action to kill truce agreement -- For what Pyongyang is importing nuclear wastes? 5. Foreign relations. Russia notifies North Korea of decision to scrap bilateral military treaty -- North Korean diplomats unable to perform their mission -- Pyongyang suspected for counterfeiting greenbacks -- Pyongyang steps up contact with Beijing and Moscow -- North Korea is going all out for foreign aid -- Pyongyang is busy mending fences with Moscow -- China to remain Pyongyang's main patron despite Deng's death. 6. Inter-Korean affairs. Pressing for repairing sinking Chongryon -- Pyongyang's schemes to undermine South Korea behind "reconciliatory gestures" -- What is Pyongyang's intention behind its return of South Korean fishermen? -- Intentions behind Pyonyang's unification bids -- What is the All-Korea Rally for? -- Beached submarine deals heavy blows to Pyongyang's rhetoric
• North Korea exerts strenous efforts to get out of pinch caused by its submarine intrusion into South Korea -- Pyongyang apologizes for its submarine infiltration. 7. Studies. North Korea's fiscal problems: are there any solutions? -- North Korea's foreign policy and its determinant factors -- The aims and characteristics of North Korea's united front strategy -- Prospects for changes in North Korea, and the possible patterns of these changes -- Causes of class split in North Korean society -- North Korea's crisis management measures and their limits. 8. Data. Power hierarchy (party, state, parliment and military) -- Activities of Kim Jong-il (April, 1995-March, 1997).

LCCN

98151780

OCLC

• ocm37232209
• 37232209
• SCSB-14478223

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library