Sung Chull Kim & David C. Kang 
Engagement with North Korea 
A Viable Alternative

How the world deals with North Korea and its nuclear capability will have ramifications for both regional and global stability. Engagement with North Korea examines the still controversial policy strategy known as engagement, which aims to persuade rather than force North Korea to be cooperative. While examining the converging and diverging policies of engagement practiced by the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea, the contributors to this volume uncover how and to what extent engagement has made some form of progress, and under what conditions it is likely to achieve complete success. In addition to the critical topic of denuclearization, the volume also demonstrates that engagement involves the use of negotiations and incentives in both the economic and the security realms. This volume is essential reading for both students and policy makers concerned about denuclearization in the multilateral context.

Table of Content

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments



1. Introduction: Engagement as a Viable Alternative to Coercion


Sung Chull Kim and David C. Kang




PART 1: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION



2. Waiting to Reap the Final Harvest: U.S. Engagement Policy to Denuclearize North Korea


Youngshik D. Bong



3. Looking East: China’s Policy toward the Korean Peninsula


Fei Ling Wang



4. Japan’s North Korea Policy: The Dilemma of Coercion


Jung Ho Bae and Sung Chull Kim



5. Russia and North Korea: The Dilemma of Engagement


Leszek Buszynski



6. The Political Economy of North Korea’s External Economic Relations


Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland




PART 2: INTERKOREAN DIMENSION



7. The State Business Coalition for South Korea’s Engagement with North Korea


Sung Chull Kim



8. Business Advances to North Korea as Outward Foreign Direct Investment


Eun Mee Kim and Yooyeon Noh



9. From Charity to Partnership: South Korean NGO Engagement with North Korea


Edward P. Reed



10 North Korea’s South Korea Policy: Tactical Change, Strategic Consistency


Charles K. Armstrong



11. Conclusion: Engagement in 2007 and Beyond


David C. Kang



Editors and Contributors

Index

About the author

Sung Chull Kim is Professor of Northeast Asian Studies at Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan. He is author of
North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance, also published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Edward Friedman) of
Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces.
David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business and Director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He is author of
Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines;
Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (with Victor D. Cha); and
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia.