North Korean Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

North Korean Review is the first academic journal in North America or Europe to focus exclusively on North Korea. The purpose of NKR is to provide readers with an improved understanding of the country’s complexities and the threat it presents to global stability. International and interdisciplinary, NKR is a refereed journal published twice a year. Topics include culture, history, economics, business, religion, politics and international relations, among others. Back issues are available to individuals $30 and to institutions for $75, and are subject to availability. Order on our website, contact your subscription agent, or contact McFarland at 800-253-2187 or journals@mcfarlandpub.com.

Yongho Kim is the director of the Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies and a professor in the Political Science and International Studies Department at Yonsei University.

Edited by Yongho Kim
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 118
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2023
ISSN 1551-2789
Imprint: McFarland

Managing Editor’s Comments (Lonnie Edge) 3

Issue Articles

“Ignorantly Arrogant Souls”: Looking Back at U.S./UN Control Over North Korea in the Autumn of 1950 (Adam Cathcart and Luke Thrumble) 5

The Language of Dynasty: Quantitative Discourse Analysis of Kim ­Il-sung, Kim ­Jong-il, and Kim ­Jong-un, 1930–2020 (Lawrence Kuznar) 22

The Pragmatic Nationalist: Assessing Japan’s North Korea Policy Under Abe Shinzō (Oliver Jia) 42

The Role of Economic Sanctions in Promoting North Korea’s Denuclearization Revisited (Man Fung Yeung) 57

Public Diplomacy with North Korea: Reviewing a Policy Proposal (David Hall) 80

Essays, Notes, and Commentaries

North Korean Hackers: Vigilance Against Better Than Underestimation Of (Liang Tuang Nah) 91

A Preemptive Strike: Will It Resolve the North Korean Nuclear Standoff? (Changsop Pyon, Suk Hi Kim, and Min Xu) 99

Book Reviews 112
Call for Papers and Style Guide 116

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