Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea

Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea

In: Hawai'i Studies on Korea

Edited by: Kyung-Ae Park and Min Sun Kim

University of Hawaii Press | 2013

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824837822

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The concept of security has undergone significant change in the past few decades. Traditionally thought of in terms of the state-centric, militarily focused, realist discourse, the concept of security has been broadened to include a greater number of potential threats and an increased number of relevant actors. Yet, despite the great changes in security scholarship, the vast majority of studies on North Korea continue to focus primarily on the country’s nuclear weapons program, its military, and other traditional security issues surrounding Pyongyang. While North Korea captures headlines with its aggressive behavior and growing nuclear arsenal, the ground-level threats to average, everyday North Koreans go largely unnoticed. This groundbreaking volume seeks to refocus research on North Korean security from the traditional to largely unexplored non-traditional security (NTS) issues.

In the wake of political succession to Kim Jung Un, the issue of non-traditional security is increasingly important. From the lasting effects of the famine of the 1990s to continued food shortages and the growing marketization of North Korean society, the Pyongyang regime is facing diverse and unprecedented challenges. This book offers cutting-edge analyses of emerging North Korean NTS issues by the world’s leading specialists in the field. It looks at these issues and their effects at the local, regional, and international level, as well as examining the international community’s efforts to promote an NTS approach to North Korea. More specifically, the volume addresses the traditional and non-traditional security paradigms, energy security, gender security, transnational organized crime, the internal and external dimensions of North Korea’s food security, the “Responsibility to Protect,” refugee issues and international law, and the role of NGOs in promoting NTS in North Korea.

As the global community begins to move toward a more people-centered approach to security and foreign policy, work such as that presented in this thought-provoking volume will be increasingly vital to scholars, policymakers, and interested citizens.

Contributors: Tsuneo Akaha, Peter Hayes, Brendan Howe, W. Randall Ireson, David C. Kang, Shin-wha Lee, Mark Manyin, Kyung-Ae Park, Scott Snyder, Jae-Jung Suh, David von Hippel.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Preface Free access PDF PDF	vii
Part I Issues of Non-Traditional Security in North Korea
Chapter 1: Rethinking National and Human Security in North Korea via Non-Traditional Security Issues Jae-Jung Suh Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	3
Chapter 2: North Korea’s Energy Security: Challenges and Assistance Approaches David von Hippel and Peter Hayes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
Chapter 3: Gender Security in North Korea Kyung-Ae Park Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	51
Chapter 4: Securitizing Transnational Organized Crime and North Korea’s Non-Traditional Security David C. Kang Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	75
Chapter 5: Building Food Security in North Korea W. Randall Ireson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	100
Chapter 6: The External Dimension of North Korea’s Food Security: Securing Outside Sources of Food, Fertilizer, and Fuel Mark E. Manyin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	133
Part II Global Cooperation for Promoting North Korea’s Non-Traditional Security
Chapter 7: The Responsibility to Protect and Its Limits in North Korea Tsuneo Akaha Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
Chapter 8: International Legal Perspectives on North Korean Refugee Issues Shin-wha Lee Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
Chapter 9: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Protecting Pyongyang’s Non-Traditional Security Scott Snyder Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	209
Chapter 10: Toward the Enhancement of Non-Traditional Security in North Korea Brendan Howe Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	226
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	249
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	257

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