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Trump 2.0 and North Korea: There Will be No Reconciliation
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Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2025)
Published: 12 June 2025
...David C. Kang; Noelle C. Troutman In many ways, Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be as unpredictable as Trump 1.0, but the Trump administration’s policy toward North Korea is likely to be a notable exception. The overwhelming focus on Trump’s rhetoric and his personal relationship with DPRK leader Kim...
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North Korea in 2023: Channeling All Efforts toward Enhancing Regime Stability and Nuclear Capabilities
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Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2024) 64 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Dohee Kim In 2023, North Korea continued along a trajectory similar to that of 2022, with developments in politics, the economy, military, and diplomacy. The regime’s primary focus was on the glorification of Kim Jong-Un and the enhancement of its nuclear capabilities to ensure regime stability...
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Attitudinal Legacies of Dictatorship: How Premigratory Experiences Affect North Korean Defectors’ Attitudes on Authority and Nationalism
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Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2024) 64 (4): 605–634.
Published: 31 January 2024
... examine whether attitudes on executive power, self-sacrifice for the sake of the national community (postmigration), state ownership, and the duty to participate politically, vary among North Korean defectors, and whether those attitudes are based on their individual experiences in North Korea. Although...
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Strategies of Political Control under Kim Jong Un: Understanding the Changing Mix of Containment, Repression, Co-optation, and Coercive Distribution
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Asian Survey (2023) 63 (4): 557–583.
Published: 24 April 2023
...Peter Ward; Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein In this article, we trace the strategy of political control employed in North Korea under Kim Jong Un. Using conceptual tools created in the literature on comparative authoritarianism, we consider the roles of repression, co-optation, coercive distribution...
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North Korea in 2022: Mostly the Same, but More
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Asian Survey (2023) 63 (2): 235–246.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Sukhee Han; Mason Richey North Korea’s 2022 was largely a continuation of the political/economic, military, and diplomatic dynamic from 2020–21, but with different accents. Given the path dependence of military/nuclear modernization, domestic political/economic structural constraints...
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North Korea: The Last Remaining Bastion of Communist Anti-revisionism
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Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2023) 63 (3): 465–493.
Published: 27 January 2023
...Joe Pateman In communist discourse, revisionism denotes a modification of socialist theory and practice that undermines the revolutionary essence of socialism. This article examines the meaning and purpose of North Korea’s anti-revisionism. Each leader has emphasized different aspects of anti...
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and China–North Korea Relations: Stronger Weak–Great Power Alignment
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Asian Survey (2022) 62 (5-6): 920–944.
Published: 18 October 2022
...Ramon Pacheco Pardo; Yeong Ik Kim Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had repercussions in regions beyond Europe. One of these regions is Asia, including Northeast Asia. This region is home to China and North Korea, two authoritarian countries often lumped together with Russia as potential threats...
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Elite–Middle Class Competition for Rent-Seeking in North Korea and Kim Jong Un’s Anti-Corruption Movement
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Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2022) 62 (3): 467–496.
Published: 16 March 2022
...Suehyun Jung This paper examines the anti-corruption movement initiated by Kim Jong Un, focusing on the increased rent-seeking competition between the elite and the middle class as market mechanisms have developed in North Korea. I examine two hypotheses regarding this program. First, it is focused...
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Toward Market Leninism in North Korea: Assessing Kim Jong Un’s First Decade
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Journal:
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Asian Survey (2022) 62 (2): 211–239.
Published: 07 March 2022
...Sheena Chestnut Greitens; Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Current scholarship on marketization from below in North Korea emphasizes the increased influence of private actors, and portrays this process as eroding state control. While these accounts are largely accurate, they risk overlooking...
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Journal:
Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2022) 62 (1): 1–14.
Published: 09 February 2022
...” between China and the US. Concerning North Korea, the Biden administration conducted an extensive review of US–North Korea policy, remaining committed to diplomacy while maintaining sanctions. It is not clear that much has changed from previous administrations. Finally, many decried the Trump...
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Journal:
Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2022) 62 (1): 53–61.
Published: 09 February 2022
...Sukhee Han; Dongchan Kim Continuing the trendline of 2020, North Korea’s key priorities in 2021 were to tighten its belt economically and control the COVID-19 pandemic. Those two goals were related. With its healthcare system no match for such a public health crisis, the government continued its...
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Lopsided Security on the Korean Peninsula: North Korea’s Gray Zone Evolution from Balance of Insecurity to Imbalance of Terror
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Asian Survey (2021) 62 (3): 441–466.
Published: 02 December 2021
...Kil Joo Ban North Korea’s asymmetric provocations over the last decades can be classified into two periods: tactical provocations at sea in 1970–1990 and strategic (nuclear) provocations in 2000–2020. What is the logic underlying the North Korean imbroglio? And how does the former period differ...
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The United States and Asia in 2020: Free, Open, and Worried?
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Asian Survey (2021) 61 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... administration. KEYWORDS: US foreign policy, Trump, China, North Korea, India INTRODUCTION In June 2019, the US Department of Defense released its Indo-Pacific strat- egy, with the theme of maintaining a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), a concept first proposed by former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo...
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North Korea in 2020: In Search of Health and Power
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Asian Survey (2021) 61 (1): 74–82.
Published: 01 February 2021
...John Delury North Korea slogged through 2020 in an effort to maintain public health and state power. Kim Jong Un’s hopes for an economic breakthrough were dashed by the COVID-19 outbreak in neighboring China, which posed an existential threat given the DPRK’s limited healthcare resources. Although...
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Military and Economic Power Networks, Hedging, and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula
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Journal:
Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2020) 60 (6): 1090–1115.
Published: 03 December 2020
... with the prospect of North Korea’s denuclearization. North Korea could use its nuclear weapons program, an internal tool designed to promote national security and power, to build up power in both military and economic power networks. Drawing lessons and speculation from the literature on states’ hedging behavior...
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North Korea and Reunification: The Limits of Nuclear Coercion
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Journal:
Asian Survey
Asian Survey (2020) 60 (5): 859–881.
Published: 09 October 2020
...Terence Roehrig Efforts to denuclearize North Korea continue, but it is highly doubtful whether this goal will be reached. An often-expressed fear of a nuclear-armed North Korea is that it might use this capability to coerce reunification with the South on its terms. Though its leaders often speak...
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North Korea in 2019: A Year of Strategic Adjustment
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Journal:
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (1): 69–78.
Published: 01 February 2020
...John Delury This was a year of transition in North Korea, as leader Kim Jong Un held firm to his strategic shift of putting “all efforts” into economic development in the face of ongoing international sanctions. Kim’s summit diplomacy with the US and South Korea stalled, while ties improved...
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The United States and Asia in 2019: Grandstanding
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (1): 8–20.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Jonathan Holslag The Trump administration’s policy on Asia in 2019 displayed a mix of overreach and fecklessness. In terms of economic, strategic, and cooperative relations, the US floundered, stumbled, and fell short, particularly in its efforts to deal with China and North Korea. Overall...
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China in 2018: Presidents, Politics, and Power
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Journal:
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Asian Survey (2019) 59 (1): 21–34.
Published: 01 February 2019
... global economy, even as his own continued to slow incrementally amid the widening trade war with the US. © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California 2019 China great power Xi Jinping corruption trade war North Korea SHAUN BRESLIN China in 2018 Presidents, Politics, and Power...
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The US and Asia in 2018: North Korea Easing, Confronting China
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Journal:
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Asian Survey (2019) 59 (1): 10–20.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Robert Sutter A summit with North Korea’s leader in June saw President Trump greatly ease regional tensions created by his earlier maximum pressure policy against North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. He also launched punitive tariffs to change trading relations to US benefit, with adverse impact...
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