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The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era

By: Bruce E. Bechtol

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The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era

By: Bruce E. Bechtol

North Korea has remained a thorn in the side of the United States ever since its creation in the aftermath of the Korean conflict of 1950 - 1953. Crafting a foreign policy that effectively deals with North Korea, while still ensuring stability and security on the Korean Peninsula - and in Northeast Asia as a whole - has proved very challenging for successive American administrations. In the wake of ruler Kim Jong-il's death in December 2011, analysts and policymakers continue to speculate about the effect his last years as leader will have on the future of North Korea. Bruce Bechtol, Jr. conte.

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161234612X

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Defiant Failed State

The North Korean Threat to International Security

By: Bruce E. Bechtol

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Defiant Failed State

The North Korean Threat to International Security

By: Bruce E. Bechtol

Delineates the challenges posed by North Korea

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1597975311

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9781597975315

Criminal Sovereignty

By: Paul Rexton Kan,Bruce E. Bechtol Jr,Robert M. Collins

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Criminal Sovereignty

By: Paul Rexton Kan,Bruce E. Bechtol Jr,Robert M. Collins

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)

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1257117785

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North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

A New International Security Dilemma

By: Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

A New International Security Dilemma

By: Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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.

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145

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Springer

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1137400072

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9781137400079

Red Rogue

The Persistent Challenge of North Korea

By: Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.

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Red Rogue

The Persistent Challenge of North Korea

By: Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.

A unique analysis of the evolving North Korean threat and the challenges facing the South Korea-U.S. alliance.

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340

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1612343635

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North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

Enabling Violence and Instability

By: Bruce E. BechtolJr.

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Enabling Violence and Instability

By: Bruce E. BechtolJr.

North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat—he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813175909

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9780813175904

Red Rogue

The Persistent Challenge of North Korea

By: Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.

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The Persistent Challenge of North Korea

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A unique analysis of the evolving North Korean threat and the challenges facing the South Korea-U.S. alliance.

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North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

Enabling Violence and Instability

By: Bruce E. BechtolJr.

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North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

Enabling Violence and Instability

By: Bruce E. BechtolJr.

North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat -- he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it.

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0813175917

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Defiant Failed State

The North Korean Threat to International Security

By: Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.

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Defiant Failed State

The North Korean Threat to International Security

By: Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.

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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1597975621

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The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era

By: Bruce E. Bechtol

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The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era

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North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

A New International Security Dilemma

By: Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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A New International Security Dilemma

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The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

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Criminal Sovereignty

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North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

Red Rogue

Red Rogue

North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

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Defiant Failed State

Defiant Failed State

The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

The Last Days of Kim Jong-il

North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era

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