North Korea

Sanctioning the DPRK? This Time It’s All about Implementation Not Design

Catherine Jones • Mar 14 2016 • Articles

There are reasons to doubt whether extended sanctions against North Korea will produce the outcomes that key players want to achieve

International Monitoring of North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test

Arun Vishwanathan • Feb 5 2016 • Articles

Sanctioning the North Korean economy and its leadership seems to be the best possible short-term option available to the international community to curb its nuclear proliferation.

Review – North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security

Benjamin Habib • Mar 24 2015 • Features

Shen’s edited book presents a good collection of regional perspectives on the security problems posed by a nuclear North Korea during the late-Kim Jong Il period.

‘The Interview’ and the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum

Robert A. Saunders • Dec 23 2014 • Articles

In the wake of this scandal, it is possible that other states may use novel tools and techniques to extinguish negative representations of national identity in film.

Review – Visual Politics and North Korea

Virginie Grzelczyk • Apr 1 2014 • Features

David Shim uses a welcome Critical Studies lens to consider how images of North Korea are used to construct a particular narrative and justify foreign policy decisions.

South Korea’s Foreign Policy in 2013: Building Trust in East Asia

Sarah Teo • Feb 6 2014 • Articles

“Trust” has been the buzzword for President Park Geun-hye, and 2013 saw ‘trustpolitik’ in action in South Korea’s relationships with North Korea, China and Japan.

Review – Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

Aurel Croissant • Sep 20 2013 • Features

The Handbook fills a lacuna in the civil-military relations literature by offering up-to-date empirical analyses of civil-military relations in a variety of regime types around the world.

Understanding the DPRK

Jennifer Jung-Kim • May 21 2013 • Articles

By seeing North Korea as rational, we might be able to look beyond the posturing and threats from all sides, and move toward resolving the Korean War with a peace treaty.

North Korea’s New Legacy Politics

Heonik Kwon • May 16 2013 • Articles

North Korea’s future depends on how creatively it brings its sovereign heritage before the 1970s to the fore, and on how it can leave the past legacy politics of 1994–2011 behind.

China Bandwagons with North Korea

Andrew Scobell • May 2 2013 • Articles

To bolster the North Korean buffer China seems prepared to use all of the instruments at its disposal. These include economic, political, diplomatic, and potentially military means, to prop up the regime.

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