Speculation about the future of the North Korean regime has been intense for nearly two
decades. In the 1990s, economic crises and famine led to predictions of the Kim regime's …

North Korea is a country that has a very vertically oriented governing structure to be sure...
but at the same time it is [a] place for politics. And so I think it is fair to say that there are …

The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a
problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty …

Although it would be nice if the intelligence community's tradecraft or the academic
community's theories could predict the future, it is essential that international security experts …

North Korea is often characterized as some form of highly centralized rule: totalitarian,
posttotalitarian, corporatist, or personalistic. This article argues that much of the confusion …

A comparative study of the political economy of the transition from communism in East and
Southeast Asian countries (China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia), addressing …

How can one state maintain deterrence against another state undergoing an uncertain
political transition? A debate within fourth wave deterrence theory focuses on whether and …

There are few issues more politically charged and more hotly debated than the issue of the
reunification of the two Koreas. During the last decade in both the ROK and the West, two …

Literature on regime stability in North Korea has reached a consensus Kim Jong-il's regime
will maintain power by “muddling through,” making ad hoc adjustments as localised …

Rapid internal transformation in North Korea is likely to occur through the confluence of
change—a perfect storm—at key leverage points in the physical, ideational and institutional …