Part 1: Introduction
1. Engaging North Korea: A Task for Sisyphus?
Lam Peng Er
Part 2: Superpowers and the DPRK
2. The United States’ Diplomacy towards a Nuclearizing DPRK: Agreed Framework, Six-Party Talks, and Summits
Jihwan HWANG
3. A Basic Framework for Understanding China-North Korea Relations
Jaewoo CHOO
Part 3: Regional Great Powers and the DPRK
4. Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the 21st Century
Vitaly KOZYREV
5. Japan and North Korea: Reminders of Forgotten Realities
Haruko SATOH
Part 4: Korean Middle Powers
6. Containment versus Engagement: South Korea’s Polarized Politics and Different Approaches to the North Korean Conundrum
Hahnkyu PARK
7. North Korea’s Relentless Nuclear Path: Advances in Nuclear Capability and Doctrine
Sung Chull KIM
Part 5: ASEAN Middle Powers
8. Singapore-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Relations: Diplomacy and Humanitarian Assistance
Gordon KANG
9. The Vietnam-DPRK Experience: Sharing and Engagement for Peace and Prosperity
NGUYEN Thi Tham and HA Anh Tuan
Part 6: Discreet Roles of the European Union, and Sweden
10. Sweden’s Enduring Relations with North Korea: Establishing Trust for Peace
Kent HÄRSTEDT
11. The European Union’s Humanitarian Assistance Program in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Saroj DASH
Biography
Lam Peng Er is Head of the Korea Centre and Principal Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute (EAI) at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.
"With North Korea sending soldiers to support Russia and with tensions on the Korean Peninsula at a new high, the search is on for fresh ways to deal with the hermit kingdom. Engaging North Korea is essential reading for diplomats and security specialists, especially those handling Northeast Asia and Russia’s war on Ukraine."
Robert Wihtol, adjunct faculty member at the Asian Institute of Management
"North Korea remains important for the continent and for wider global security. This edited volume identifies the many different pieces of the puzzle (in its present configuration), and it offers a resource for understanding the evolution of multiple national perspectives on North Korea. It is a neces□sarily complex book, mirroring the complexity of the issue at hand, that should be essential reading for those interested in how these different perspectives overlap with each other."
Samir Puri, Chatham House
"Overall, the volume makes an admirable effort to situate denuclearization within a larger picture of engaging North Korea and bringing together diverse experiences of engagement."
Hyun-Binn Cho, Pacific Affairs
