North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

Sung Chull Kim is Humanities Korea Professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, 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 Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance. Michael D. Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Security Studiesand 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 StudiesQuarterly, and The Non-Proliferation Review.

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

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