... of California Bruce Cumings North Korea South Korea United States Kim Jong-un Moon Jae-in Donald Trump nuclear weapons denuclearization sanctions Korean War armistice Singapore summit PERSPECTIVE Trump, Kim, and an Uncanny Diplomatic Opening BRUCE CUMINGS 241 After he swept...

... South Korea North Korea Kim Jong-un nuclear weapons missiles chaebol business conglomerates corruption Donald Trump China Japan 217 The reality is that powerful business and political clans are deeply embedded in Korean society and unlikely to disappear anytime soon. A New President...

... Susan Landau cybersecurity cybersurveillance cyberattacks hacking North Korea Kim Jong-un Sony US National Security Agency Edward Snowden intelligence spying 29 PERSPECTIVE From Paul Revere s legendary ride in 1775 to warn the American colonists in Massachusetts after he spotted...

... yinhong six-party talks ABM patriot anti-ballistic TPY-2 Pyongyang Okinawa soft power abe shinzo pacifist neutral diaoyu senkaku 2009 anti-americanism kim soviet westphalian seoul PERSPECTIVE Oh, the Chinese hate the Japanese and the Japanese hate the Chinese To hate all...

... rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Charles Armstrong North Korea South Korea Park Geun-hye Kim Jong-un Lee Myung-bak Park Chung-hee Kim Il-sung Kim Jong-il Kim Dae-jung dialogue 242 PERSPECTIVE History looms large in Northeast Asia today...

... Kim Jong-un Kim Jong-il Kim Il-sung monarchy succession communism Marx Hegel 216 The North s philosophy of rule bears close resemblance to what Koreans tradition- ally said about their kings or what Hegel said about the German monarch. . . . The Kims Three Bodies: Communism...

...Francis Fukuyama Stable democracy does not depend on a rigid set of preconditions, and has emerged in many surprising circumstances. Francis Fukuyama democratization Lee Kuan Yew development Kim Jung-il rule law Samuel Huntington Fareed Zakaria Robert Mugabe John Stuart Mill...

... of the University of California Charles Armstrong North Korea Kim Jong-il South Korea Six-Party Talks Kim Il-Sung ASEAN Roh Moo-hyun United States Grand National Party 229 It has become apparent that a policy of isolation, sanctions, lack of dialogue, and strategic patience has not worked...

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...Kongdan Oh; Ralph C. Hassig Blessed with enormous military and economic power, Americans expect to find quick and effective solutions to whatever crises they encounter. For North Korea's Kim Jong-il, however, generating one crisis after another may be the best way to stay in power. © 2004 Current...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Japan United States North Korea George Bush Bill Clinton Kim Jong-il Junichiro Koizumi Taepodong China South Korea 280 The key issue confronting US-Japan relationsis how much Japan can and should...

... of California United States South Korea North Korea George Bush Kim Dae Jung axis evil Roh Moo-hyun Korean War anti-Americanism sunshine policy 279 If South Korean resentment of America s military presence is less clear-cut than many would suggest, so, too, are the policy differences...

.... But this presumes that both Pyongyang and Washington are ready to sit down in the first place. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California China North Korea United States George Bush Jiang Zemin Japan South Korea Hu Jintao Kim Jong Il Korean...

... promises not to target the North with nuclear weapons, and indirect compensation in the form of aid and investment.” © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California North Korea George Bush Bill Clinton Kim Il Sung Jimmy Carter James Kelly...

...Manwoo Lee Although Kim Dae-jung's sunshine policy has been buffeted by political turbulence, it is not dead; his successor can only modify his policy, not abandon it altogether. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California axis evil Bill...