Advanced Seminar in International Peace and Security IV: North Korean Politics and Foreign Policy Spring 2015

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1 Advanced Seminar in International Peace and Security IV: North Korean Politics and Foreign Policy Spring 2015 Course Title Time Advanced Seminar in International Peace and Security IV Thursdays, 7:00PM-10:00PM Course Number IAC754 Major Classroom International Studies Hall #115 International Peace and Security Credits 3 Instructor Jein Do Phone jaynezhiren@gmail.com COURSE DESCRIPTION Review of North Korea's political and diplomatic history from liberation until today Examine the consolidation of the North Korean state, party, and army, with a view to understanding both the distinctiveness of the North Korean political system as well as the commonalities with other former socialist countries Explore the evolution of North Korean domestic politics in the context of its relations with the main allies, the Soviet Union and China Explore North Korea's policy towards South Korea, United States, and Japan COURSE OBJECTIVES Learn the historical significance and contemporary relevance of studying North Korea Learn to analyze the problem of North Korea in the context of Cold War and post-cold War international relations Learn the evolution of North Korean politics and society Lean to convey your critical thinking and analysis more effectively to others, through writing discussion and formal presentations. COURSE MATERIAL All required reading material will be provided by the instructor. Please note that the assigned reading material and the arrangement of topics may be readjusted (with prior notice) during the semester in order to enhance the student's learning experience as determined by the instructor and facilitate the instructor's job of checking student progress. Those who contest this method should not take this course. COURSE FORMAT Lecture Student presentation Discussions COURSE REQUIREMENTS Final term paper (minimum 3000 words, 10 pages minimum, double-spaced using MS Word, Times New Roman, 12pt) Mid-term assignment (two-page proposal for final term paper, outlining topic, main thesis, review of previous scholarship, main questions, sources) Make use of the online archive on North Korean foreign policy and domestic politics at the Wilson Center for International Scholars digital archive, at Presentations on the reading material (each student will be assigned at least two presentations during the semester) Send the instructor one or two questions prior to class for discussion Come to class prepared to comment on the reading material and engage actively in discussions GRADING Final term paper 40% Mid-term assignment 30% Class participation 20% Attendance 10%. COURSE REGULATION Turn off smart phones at all times. No laptops-no online chatting and web surfing during the class. Plagiarism will not be tolerated; make sure to learn how to properly cite the works of others. Copying and pasting material on the internet is very easy to spot and will not be accepted. Students with special needs (physical and/or mental disability, problems, etc) should notify the instructor and accommodations will be provided as necessary. 1

2 COURSE SCHEDULE (As of 1 February 2015) **Bold: required reading (others optional)** WEEK 1 (5 March) They Think They re Normal: Enduring Questions and New Research about North Course Introduction: Korea, International Security 36, no. 3 (Winter 2011/2012), pp Historical and Frank, Rudiger. "Socialist Neoconservatism and North Korean Foreign Policy," in Contemporary Significance Kyung-ae Park ed., New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy (New York: of Studying North Korea Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Chapter 1. Kihl, Young Whan. "Staying Power of the Socialist Hermit Kingdom," in Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim, eds., North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp Delury, John. "North Korea: 20 Years of Solitude," World Policy Journal, Vol.25, No. 4 (Winter 2008/09), pp WEEK 2 (12 March) Buzo, Adrian, Buzo, Adrian. The Guerilla Dynasty (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Background to the North Press, 1999), Chapter 1. Korean Leadership and State Formation University, 1988), Chapters 1,2,3. University of Alabama Press, 1974). Chapter 1 and 2. Balazs Szalontai. Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DRPK Relations and the Roots of Korean Despotism, (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press), Chapter 1. McEachern, Patrick. Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics (NY: Columbia University Press, 2010). WEEK3 (19 March) Soviet Occupation of North Korea and Formation of the North Korean State ( ) WEEK 4 (26 March) The Establishment of the PRC and Sino-North Korean Relations ( ) WEEK 5 (2 April) North Korean Political Consolidation ( ) Lankov, Andrei. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung, (London: C. Hurst &Co., 2002). Chapters 1. Armstrong, Charles. The North Korean Revolution: (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), Chapter 2, 3. Scalapino, Robert and Chong-sik Lee. Communism in Korea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), Chapter 5. Van, Erik Van. Socialism in One Zone: Stalin's Policy in Korea, (Oxford: Berg Publishers Limited, 1989), chapters 5,6,7. Armstrong, Charles. The North Korean Revolution, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), Chapter2. University, 1988), Chapter 4. Slusser, Robert, "Soviet Far Eastern Policy, : Stalin's Goals in Korea," Yonosuke Nagai and Akira Iriye, eds., The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 1977), pp Kathryn Weathersby, Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of Korean War, : New Evidence from Russian archives," CWIHP Working Paper #8, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. University of Alabama Press, 1974). Chapter 5 and 6. Shen Zhihua and Danhui Li, After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011), Chapter 2, 3 Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis, and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1995), Chapters 4,5. Niu, Jun. "The Birth of the People's Republic of China and the Road to the Korean War," in Leffler, Melvyn and Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Shen, Zhihua, "Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin's Goals in the Far East," Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp (EKU) Simmons, Robert, Strained Alliance: Peking, Pyongyang, and Moscow and the Politics of the Korean Civil War (Free Press, 1975). Niu, Jun. "The Origins of the Sino-Soviet Alliance," in Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998). University, 1988), Chapter 5,6,7. Lankov, Andrei. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung, (London: C. Hurst &Co., 2002). Chapters 1. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 1. Scalapino, Robert and Chong-sik Lee. Communism in North Korea (Berkeley: 2

3 University of California Press, 1972), Chapter 6. University of Alabama Press, 1974). Chapter 5 and 6. WEEK 6 (9 April) Post-Korean War Reconstruction and Relations with Moscow and Beijing WEEK 7 (16 April) Challenge to Kim Il Sung's Rule and the State of Factional Politics by 1958 ( ) WEEK 8 (23 April) WEEK 9 (30 April) The Sino-Soviet Split and North Korea: Neutrality and Monolithic System WEEK 11 (7 May) Vietnam War and North Korea: Politics and Foreign Relations ( ) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 2 and 3. Shen, Zhihua and Yafeng Xia, China and the Post-War Reconstruction of North Korea, ," NKIDP Working Paper #4, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Person, James, "We Need Help From the Outside: The North Korean Opposition Movement of 1956," Cold War International History Project, Working Paper #52, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, August Shen Zhihua and Danhui Li, After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011), chapter 2 and 4. Chung, Chin W. Pyongyang between Peking and Moscow (Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1978) chapters 1 and 2. Cumings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997), Chapter 6 Kim, Joungwon Alexander, "The "Peak of Socialism" in North Korea: The Five and Seven Year Plans, Asian Survey, Vol. 5, No. 5 (May, 1965), pp Balazs Szalontai. Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DRPK Relations and the Roots of Korean Despotism, (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press), chapters 4 and 5. Lankov, Andrei. Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), chapters 4,5,6 Buzo, Adrian. The Guerilla Dynasty (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999), chapters 3. University, 1988), chapter 8. Nam, Koon Woo. The North Korean Communist Leadership: (Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1974). chapters 7, 8. Scalapino, Robert and Chong-sik Lee. Communism in North Korea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), Chapter 7 - [Mid-term Period] Balazs Szalontai. Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DRPK Relations and the Roots of Korean Despotism, (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press), chapters 6 and 7 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 4 University, 1988), Chapter 9,10,11 Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), chapter 5. Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union and the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) Chapter 4. Zhang, Shu Guang. "The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Cold War in Asia, ," in Leffler, Melvyn and Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Radcheko, Sergey. "The Sino-Soviet Split," in Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Nobuo Shimotomai, Kim Il Sung's Balancing Act between Moscow and Beijing, ," Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ed., The Cold War in East Asia (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2011) Szalontai, Balazs, "In the Shadow of Vietnam A New Look at North Korea s Militant Strategy, ," Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall 2012), pp

4 WEEK 12 (14 May) Détente and North Korean Policy towards South Korea WEEK 13 (21 May) The Rise of Kim Jong Il: From Dictatorship to Dynasty in the 1980s Bernd Schaefer, "North Korean Adventurism and China's Long Shadow," Cold War International History Project, Working Paper #44, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, October University, 1988), chapter 11, 12, 13. Cheng, Xiaohe, "The Evolution of Sino-North Korean Relations in the 1960s, " Asian Perspective, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2010, pp Chung, Chin W. Pyongyang between Peking and Moscow (Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1978) chapters 6. Khoo, Nicholas, "Breaking the Ring of Encirclement: The Sino-Soviet Rift and the Chinese Policy Towards Vietnam, ," Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp Gaiduk, Ilya, The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), Chapter 1, 2, and 3. Chen, Jian, China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004), Chapter 8. Zhai, Chiang, China and the Vietnam Wars, (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000), Chapter 6. Seongji Woo, "The Park Chung-hee Administration amid Inter-Korean Reconciliation in the Détente Period: Changes in the Threat Perception, Regime Characteristics, and the Distribution of Power," Korea Journal, Vol.49, No. 2 (Summer 2009), pp Bernd Schaefer, "Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, " North Korea International Documentation Project (December 2010), pp Vogel, Ezra and Byung-Kook Kim, eds., The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), Chapter 8, 17. Oberdofer, Don. The Two Koreas (Reading, Mass.: Additon-Wesley, 1998), Chapters 1,2,3. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 4. Chung, Chin W. Pyongyang between Peking and Moscow (Alabama: The, University of Alabama Press, 1978) chapters 7,8. Gaddis, John Lewis, Strategies of Containment, Chapters 9 and 10 Cohen, Warren. America's Response to China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), Chapter 8. MacMillan, Margaret. "Nixon, Kissinger, and the Opening to China," in Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston eds., Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Chen Jian, China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill, North Carolina Press), chapter 9. Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union and the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) Chapter 7 Goh, Evelyn Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, : From Red Menace to Tacit Ally." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Garver, John China's Decision for Rapprochement with the United States, Boulder: Westview Press. Kim, Sung Chull. North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance (Albany: State University of New York, 2006), Chapters 5. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 6. Lim Jae-Cheon, Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), chapter 3,4. Buzo, Adrian. The Guerilla Dynasty (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999), chapters 4,5,6,7 University, 1988), Chapters 14,15,16. Khil, Young Whan, Politics and Policies in Divided Korea: Regimes in Contest (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984), Chapter 3. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), chapters 6. An, Tai Sung. "North Korea: From Dictatorship to Dynasty," Asian Affairs, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jan. - Feb., 1977), pp Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union and the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) Chapter 7, 8. 4

5 Haslam, Jonthan. Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), Chapters 10, 11. Ross, Robert ed. China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War (New York: East Gate Book, 1993), Chapters 3, 5,7. Sergey Radchenko, Inertia and Change: Soviet Policy toward Korea, ," Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ed., The Cold War in East Asia (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2011) WEEK 14 (28 May) End of the Cold War: Questions of Survival in the 1990s WEEK 15 (4 June) Reform and Opening under Kim Jong Il WEEK 16 (11 June) North Korean Survival Under Kim Jong Un Lim Jae-Cheon, Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), chapter 5 Kim, Sung Chull. North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance (Albany: State University of New York, 2006), Chapter 4. Kim, Samuel. "Sino-North Korean Relations in the Post-Cold War Period," in Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim, eds., North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp Meyer, Peggy. "Russo-North Korean Relations under Kim Jong Il," in Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim, eds., North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp Chae-Jin Lee, China and North Korea: An Uncertain Relationship," Dae-Sook Suh & Chae-jin Lee, North Korea After Kim Il Sung (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998) Kwak, Tae-Hwan and Seung-ho Joo. North Korea's Foreign Policy under Kim Jong Il (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), Chapters, 9 and 10. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), 7 S. Kim, "In Search of a Theory of North Korean Foreign Policy," S. Kim ed., North Korean Foreign Relations In the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Park, Han S. "Military-First Politics: Implications for External Policies," in Kyung-ae Park ed., New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp Byman, Daniel and Jennifer Lind, "Pyongyang's Survival Strategy Tools of Authoritarian Control in North Korea," International Security, Vol. 35, No.1 (Summer 2010), pp TBA Kim, Yongho, "North Korea's Threat Perception and Provocation under Kim Jong Un: The Security Dilemma and the Obsession with Political Survival," North Korean Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp Rudiger, Frank and Philip Park. "From Monolithic Totalitarianism to Collective Authoritarian Leadership? Performance-based Legitimacy and Power Transfer in North Korea," North Korean Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 2012), pp Park, Yong Soo. "Policies and Ideologies of the Kim Jong Un Regime in North Korea: Theoretical Implications." Asian Studies Review, 38: (Spring 2014) Byman, Daniel and Jennifer Lind, "Pyongyang's Survival Strategy Tools of Authoritarian Control in North Korea," International Security, Vol. 35, No.1 (Summer 2010), pp Lankov, Andrei and Kim Seok-hyang. "North Korean Market Vendors: The Rise of Grassroots Capitalists in a Post-Stalinist Society," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 81, No.1 (Spring 2008), pp