North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence

by Sung Chull Kim (Editor), Michael D. Cohen (Editor), Patrick Morgan (Contribution by), Tristan Vople (Contribution by), Van Jackson (Contribution by)

Overview

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. The volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter a nuclear North Korea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626164536
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sung Chull Kim is is Humanities Korea Professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University. He is also editor of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding and the author or editor of several books including North Korea under Kim Jong II: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance.

Michael D. Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University. His research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as The Journal of Global Security Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Strategic Studies Quarterly, and The Non-Proliferation Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Challenge, a New DebateMichael D. Cohen and Sung Chull Kim

1. North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Nonproliferation or Deterrence? Or Both? Patrick Morgan

2. North Korea's Nuclear Doctrine and Revisionist StrategySung Chull Kim

3. North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and No Good Options? A Controlled Path to PeaceMichael D. Cohen

4. The Unraveling of North Korea's Proliferation Blackmail StrategyTristan Volpe

5. Does Nuclearization Impact Threat Credibility? Insights from the Korean PeninsulaVan Jackson

6. The North Korean Nuclear Threat and South Korea's Deterrence StrategyChaesung Chun

7. Stability or Instability? The US Response to North Korean Nuclear WeaponsTerrence Roehrig

8. Between the Bomb and the United States: China Face the Nuclear North KoreaFei-Ling Wang

9. Spear versus Shield? North Korea's Nuclear Path and Challenges to the NPT SystemYangmo Ku

Conclusion: Deterrence and BeyondSung Chull Kim and Michael D. Cohen

ContributorsIndex

What People are Saying About This

Victor Cha

Kim and Cohen's volume on North Korea offers a 360 degree view of one of the most vexing problems for US foreign policy and national security. The authors each bring a unique analytic angle to the problem ranging from deterrence theory to the foreign policies of key protagonists like the United States, South Korea, and China. There is something here for both the expert and the general reader who want to make sense of this enigmatic regime and its increasingly risk-acceptant behavior.

T.V. Paul

A set of first rate papers address the enduring North Korean nuclear saga and its strategic and political implications. The contributors capture the complexity of deterrence and compellence in Korea and the emerging strategic scenarios while providing fresh light on the choices the regional and international players are making. A must read for all interested in nuclear proliferation and East Asian security.

Editorial Reviews

[T]he volume greatly contributes to our understanding of nuclear North Korea and how to cope with it.

Pacific Affairs

A valuable new volume of scholarly essays.

New York Review of Books

Kim and Cohen's volume on North Korea offers a 360 degree view of one of the most vexing problems for US foreign policy and national security. The authors each bring a unique analytic angle to the problem ranging from deterrence theory to the foreign policies of key protagonists like the United States, South Korea, and China. There is something here for both the expert and the general reader who want to make sense of this enigmatic regime and its increasingly risk-acceptant behavior.

Victor Cha

A set of first rate papers address the enduring North Korean nuclear saga and its strategic and political implications. The contributors capture the complexity of deterrence and compellence in Korea and the emerging strategic scenarios while providing fresh light on the choices the regional and international players are making. A must read for all interested in nuclear proliferation and East Asian security.

T.V. Paul

[Has] a strong cast of characters [and] is a good place to go for an introduction.

Peterson Institute for International Economics

"Kim and Cohen's volume on North Korea offers a 360 degree view of one of the most vexing problems for US foreign policy and national security. The authors each bring a unique analytic angle to the problem ranging from deterrence theory to the foreign policies of key protagonists like the United States, South Korea, and China. There is something here for both the expert and the general reader who want to make sense of this enigmatic regime and its increasingly risk-acceptant behavior." — Victor Cha, D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University. Former White House NSC director for Asia and US deputy head of delegation for the Six Party Talks, and author of The Impossible State: North Korea Past and Future

"A set of first rate papers address the enduring North Korean nuclear saga and its strategic and political implications. The contributors capture the complexity of deterrence and compellence in Korea and the emerging strategic scenarios while providing fresh light on the choices the regional and international players are making. A must read for all interested in nuclear proliferation and East Asian security." — T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University

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