E-raamat: North Korean Nuclear Program: Security, Strategy and New Perspectives from Russia [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

Acknowledgments viii Foreword ix Mitchell B. Reiss Introduction Russia, North Korea, and U.S. Policy toward the Nuclear Crisis 1(14) James Clay Moltz Part I The History of the North Korean Nuclear Program A Technical History of Soviet--North Korean Nuclear Relations 15(6) Georgiy Kaurov Nuclear Institutions and Organizations in North Korea 21(6) Valery I. Denisov A Political History of Soviet--North Korean Nuclear Cooperation 27(14) Alexander Zhebin Part II The Economic Context of the North Korean Nuclear Program Economic Aspects of the North Korean Nuclear Program 41(10) Vladimir D. Andrianov The North Korean Energy Sector 51(9) Valentin I. Moiseyev Economic Factors and the Stability of the North Korean Regime 60(16) Natalya Bazhanova The Natural Disasters of the Mid-1990s and Their Impact on the Implementation of the Agreed Framework 76(17) Alexandre Y. Mansourov Part III Political and Military Factors behind the North Korean Nuclear Program Nuclear Blackmail and North Koreas Search for a Place in the Sun 93(8) Alexander Platkovskiy Military-Strategic Aspects of the North Korean Nuclear Program 101(9) Evgeniy P. Bazhanov Leadership Politics in North Korea and the Nuclear Program 110(17) Roald V. Savelyev Part IV The International Context of the North Korean Nuclear Program North Koreas Decision to Develop an Independent Nuclear Program 127(11) Natalya Bazhanova North Korea and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime 138(18) Vladimir F. Li North Koreas Negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) 156(15) Alexandre Y. Mansourov China and the Korean Peninsula: Managing an Unstable Triangle 171(8) Evgeniy P. Bazhanov James Clay Moltz The Korean Peninsula and the Security of Russias Primorskiy Kray (Maritime Province) 179(18) Larisa V. Zabrovskaya Part V Unsettled Problems and Future Issues The Renewal of Russian--North Korean Relations 197(13) James Clay Moltz The Korean Peninsula: From Inter--Korean Confrontation to a System of Cooperative Security 210(9) Alexander Zarubin Russian Views of the Agreed Framework and the Four-Party Talks 219(17) Evgeniy P. Bazhanov Pyongyangs Stake in the Agreed Framework 236(9) Alexandre Y. Mansourov Notes 245(24) Contributors 269(2) Index 271

James Clay Moltz is Assistant Director and Research Professor of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies where he is Director of the NIS Nonproliferation Project. Alexandre Y. Mansourov is a research associate at Harvard University's Korea Institute.