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This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the
challenges that it presents to international security and
community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of
the Kim Jong-un regime.
In Red Rogue, Bruce Bechtol analyzes the changing nature of North
Korea’s national defense, foreign policy, and illicit economic
activities in the post–9/11 era. He describes how North Korea has
adapted to a changing global and regional environment to ensure
regime survival and has often dictated the agenda in East Asia.
Bechtol explains why North Korea frequently resorts to brinkmanship
and provocations as foreign policy tools and why North Korea
remains a threat to the United States and South Korea. After a
detailed discussion of North Korea’s internal politics and
foreign policy, Red Rogue examines the diverging U.S. and South
Korean assessments of security on the peninsula, the health of the
rapidly changing South Korea–U.S. alliance, and the badly
deteriorated South Korean civil-military relationship. Using a
framework that focuses on diplomatic, informational, military, and
economic instruments of national power, the author reveals the
dynamic and complicated challenges for security and stability on
the Korean Peninsula. The reader will gain a clear perspective of
the paradigm shifts in U.S., South Korean, and North Korean
policies in recent years. The book is essential reading for
scholars, policymakers, military strategists, and anyone who has an
interest in East Asian affairs.
This monograph examines North Korea's Office Number 39: its
origins, organizational structure, and activities. The authors
focus on Office Number 39's key illicit activities- to include
manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs, the counterfeiting
of U.S. currency, and the manufacture and distribution of
counterfeit cigarettes. Finally, as Kim Jong-Il grows frailer,
assessing how his successor may continue or alter Office Number
39's activities is also examined. (Originally published by the
Strategic Studies Institute)
Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the
North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol,
an associate professor of political science at Angelo State
University. Because North Korea appears economically weak and
politically unstable, it is therefore often categorized as a state
on the brink of collapse, or a failed state. But Bechtol makes a
convincing case that North Korea is more complex and menacing than
it how it has often been characterized. Defiant Failed State shows
how the North Korean government has adapted to the post-Cold War
environment and poses a multifaceted danger to U.S. national
security and that of its allies. Bechtol analyzes North Korea's
military capabilities, nuclear program, proliferation, and
leadership succession to mine the answers to important questions
such as, is North Korea a failing or failed state? Is it capable of
surviving indefinitely? Why and how does it present such risk to
Asia and the United States and its allies? This book sheds new
light on the nature of the North Korean threat and the key foreign
policy issues that remain unresolved between the United States and
South Korea. It is essential reading for scholars, policymakers,
military strategists, functional and regional specialists, and
anyone who is interested in East Asian affairs.
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