Talking to North Korea

James Glyn Ford

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Despite recent attempts at 'negotiation', the attitudes of both Kim Jong-un's regime and the West seem unchanged. North Korea is still shrouded in mystery, and there are no clear plans for the future... Can we trust either side to bring about peace? And if so, how?



This provocative insider's account blasts apart the myths which paint North Korea as a rogue state run by a mad leader. Informed by extraordinary access to the country's leadership, Glyn Ford investigates the regime from the inside, providing game-changing insights, which Trump and his administration have failed to do. Acknowledging that North Korea is a deeply flawed and repressive state, he nonetheless shows that sections of the leadership are desperate to modernise and end their isolation.



With chapters on recent developments including the Trump / Kim summit, Ford supports a dialogue between East and West, whilst also criticising Trump's facile attempts. Talking to North Korea provides a road map for averting a war in North East Asia that would threaten the lives of millions.
List of Figures and Tables

Map of North Korea

Country Leaders, 1990-2018

Chronology Since 1900

Acknowledgements

Note on Asian Names

Preface

1. Introduction: The Pyongyang Paradox

Part I: Roots of the Present Crisis: Understanding North Korea’s History

2. Drawing the Iron Curtain

3. Kim’s Korea

4. Famine, Markets, Refugees and Human Rights: The Kim Jong II Era

Part II: Continuity and Change

5. Kim Jong Un

6. Daily Life in North Korea

Part III: The Diplomatic Stage

7. The Nuclear Factor

8. Foreign Affairs: Between Rapprochement and Standoff

9. Conclusion: After Singapore

Notes

Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Sujets

• Political Process
• Arms Control
• International Relations
• Nuclear Warfare
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• 21st century
• General officer
• Military
• Nuclear weapon
• North Korea
• Dictatorship
• General
• Donald Trump
• Kim Jong-il
• Corée du Nord

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786803047
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Talking to North Korea
Based on dozens of visits to North Korea and dialogues with top party leaders, Glyn Ford offers an insightful and provocative analysis of the danger of North Korea s nuclear weapons as well as practical policy recommendations for the EU. Definitely worth reading!
-William Ury, co-founder, Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In
A timely, perceptive, and penetrating analysis of North Korea. This is a must for those who are interested in contemporary North Korean affairs.
-Chung-in Moon, Distinguished University Professor, Yonsei University
With almost 50 visits to the DPRK, Glyn Ford is one of the top European experts on the Korean Peninsula. Readers, whatever their political views, will find much to stimulate their thinking regarding one of the most important political-security issues of our time.
-Jeffrey D. Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
With direct access to North Korean government officials and a lifetime of observation and analysis of the country, Glyn Ford has an insight into the country like no other. A strongly recommended impartial read, revealing previous political tricks and failures of 73 years of miscommunication and stagnation . . . and a possible path out of this mess.
-Nicholas Bonner, Founder of Koryo Tours
Glyn Ford is a very rare case of a Westerner who has both political experience in the West and first-hand experience of dealing with North Korea. His book shows a possible way out of the continuous crisis through slow-motion change - the only way which might work.
-Andrei Lankov, author of The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Talking to North Korea
Ending the Nuclear Standoff
Glyn Ford
Parts of this work draw on North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival by Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon, first published by Pluto Press 2008
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If at first you don t succeed, try diplomacy
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Map of North Korea
Country Leaders, 1990-2018
Chronology since 1900
Acknowledgements
Note on Asian Names
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Pyongyang Paradox
Nukes and Missiles
International Relations
Is There a Settlement to Be Had?
Structure
PART I ROOTS OF THE PRESENT CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA S HISTORY
Chapter 2 Drawing the Iron Curtain
Geography
The Yanks Arrive
Colonial Consequences
Pre-War War
From Civil War to Cold War
The Never-Ending End
Chapter 3 Kim s Korea
Divide and Rule: The Intra-Party Struggle
The Kim Cult
The Economy Takes Off
The Welfare State
Alone Abroad
The Third Way
Kim s Legacy
Chapter 4 Famine, Markets, Refugees, and Human Rights: The Kim Jong Il Era
The Famine
The Emergence of Markets
Kim Jong Il Steps Up
Defectors, Refugees, or Migrants?
PART II CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Chapter 5 Kim Jong Un
Emerging Capitalism
Some Are More Equal than Others
Investment and Special Economic Zones
Energy and Mining
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Industry
Chapter 6 Daily Life in North Korea
Transportation
Education: Shaping the Nation
Controlling the Nation
National Health
Crime and Punishment
PART III THE DIPLOMATIC STAGE
Chapter 7 The Nuclear Factor
Military Perception
How Did We Get Here?
North Korea s Nuclear Tests
Missile Trade
Star Wars
Impact and Solutions
Relations with South Korea
Chapter 8 Foreign Affairs: Between Rapprochement and Standoff
Japan
China
United States
United Nations
European Union
Chapter 9 Conclusion - After Singapore
Between Washington and Beijing
Where Can It All Go Wrong?
Another War Is Possible
The Prospects for a Settlement


Notes
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1 Traffic jams in Pyongyang. Photo by Marialaura De Angelis
2 A fish-processing plant in Rason. The poster on the wall reads, Save Electricity.
3 Rodong Shinmun welcoming my visit to the Mankyongdae scouts, 2016
4 The Chinese-Korean border, from Air Koryo
5 A Party poster from the late 1940s. It reads: All hail the establishment of the North Korean Workers Party/Workers unite with the Party
6 Chinese poster celebrating the dispatching of the Chinese People s Volunteers, 1950
7 The window sticker reads, Visit to Sinchon Museum (2011)
8 All Out to Vote, 2014
9 The two Kims, and one of the last remnants of Communist orthodoxy. The slogan on the monument says, All hail to the . . . banner of Marxism-Leninism
10 Juche spirits, one with an adder s head
11 Pyongyang tenement
12 A poster from the Kim Jong Il era showing a North Korean soldier crushing a US soldier
13 The African Renaissance Monument in Senegal, inaugurated in 2010 in the presence of DPRK head of state Kim Yong Nam
14 Orphans in a children s centre near Hamhung, 2011
15 The iconic, unfinished Ryugong Hotel from the courtyard of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, 2013
16 Pyongyang fast food: burger, fries, and cola, 2014
17 Soldiers on a day out for military fun at the fair, Rungna Island, 2011
18 First Pyongyang Taedonggang Beer Festival, 2016. Photo by Chiara Zannini
19 Steel works in Hungnam celebrating the end of the Fatherland Liberation War, 27 July 2011
20 Frolicking on Wonsan Beach
21 NBA shirts in Rason, complete with Made in China labels, 2012
22 Yosushi restaurant in Pyongyang
23 Machinist in Pyongyang factory, 2012
24 Cycling in the countryside
25 Shopping for lipstick in Ryomyong Street, Pyongyang, 2017
26 Pyongyang s new atom-shaped Science and Technology Centre, looking out towards the coal-fired power station
27 Mass Games with the North Korean People s Marines, 2011
28 An operation in Pyongyang
29 The remaining Japanese Red Army Faction hijackers, 2016. Photo by David Yarrow
30 Rason Port, waiting for business
31, 32 Panmunjom, as entered from the North and from the South
33 Cards and cigarettes on Pyongyang s pavements
34 Rason fish-processing workers loading refrigerated lorries bound for China
Tables
1 Economic Assistance from the Communist Countries (Unit: M)
2 Political Classification System in North Korea by Social Origin
Map of North Korea
Country Leaders, 1990-2018

*1 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): Toshiki Kaifu (1989-91), Kiichi Miyazawa (1991-93), *2 Japan New Party: Morihiro Hosokawa (1993-94) *3 Japan Renewal Party: Tsutomu Hata (1994) *4 Social Democratic Party (SDP): Tomiichi Murayama (1994-96) *5 LDP: Ryutaro Hashimoto (1996-98), Keizo Obuci, (1998-2000), Yoshiro Mori (2000-2001) *6 LDP: Shinzo Abe (2006-07), Yasuo Fukuda (2007-08), Taro Aso (2008-09), *7 Democratic Party of Japan: Yukio Hatoyama (2009-10), Naoto Kan (2010-11), Yoshihiko Noda (2011-12)
Chronology since 1900
1904-05
Russo-Japanese war
1905
Japanese occupation begins
1910
Japanese annexation
1912
Birth of Kim Il Sung
1919
1 March movement in Seoul
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria/Kim Il Sung joins the Chinese Communist Party
1941
Birth of Kim Jong Il
1945
August - Japanese surrender and end of occupation
1946
8 February - Kim Il Sung becomes head of the Provisional People s Committee
1948
9 September - Birth of the DPRK
1950
25 June - Civil war starts
1953
27 July - Korean War Armistice
1956
Khrushchev denounced Stalin, putting Kim Il Sung at risk for the first time since the end of the war
1958
After an abortive coup, Kim Il Sung left in total command. The Kim personality cult ramps up
1961
July - Signature of Treaties of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union and China
1964
Tokyo normalises relations with South Korea
1966
North Korea in the football World Cup in England
1968
January - Peublo captured off Wonsan. Blue House raid
Late 1960s
North Korean economy starts to stutter. Second Korean War
1970
Chinese Zhou Enlai visits Pyongyang. China-DPRK relations warm up
1972
New North Korean Constitution
1975
Kim joins the Non-Aligned Movement and expands his diplomatic relations with Third World countries
1976
CIA-funded Cuban exile group blows up a plane killing five senior North Korean officials, amongst a total of 73 dead
1977-83
17 Japanese were abducted by North Korea, eight are still not fully accounted for
1978
September - Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty December - China-US normalise relations
1983
October - Pyongyang assassination attempt against President Chun Doo-hwan in Rangoon, leaving 21 dead including five ROK Ministers
1984
Kim visit to Moscow and beginning of DPRK-USSR rapprochement
1986
The North Korean dual-use reactor goes critical
1987
Korean Air bombing, leaving 115 dead
1991
September - North and South Korea join the UN December - North and South Korea sign the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearisation of the Peninsula
1992
Rason Special Economic Zone created Signing of NPT and first IAEA Inspections
1993
IAEA deman