Modernizing the North Korean system : : objectives, method, and application / / Charles Wolf, Jr., Norman D. Levin.

• Author: Wolf, Charles, 1924-
• TeilnehmendeR: Levin, Norman D.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (125 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In seeking a modernized North Korea, the focus should be on stimulating a gradual modernization of the North Korean system rather than removing the regime. With this tenet in mind, six institutions in five countries that have key interests in North Korea?s future undertook a collaborative effort to determine ways in which the North Korean system could move toward modernization over the medium to long term. This endeavor can be viewed as ?participatory systems analysis? in that the participants, in analyzing the North Korean system and how to motivate its modernization, fused their sometimes di

Table of Contents

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Background and Foreground; Project Motivation and Objectives; Research Method, Content, and Process; General Attributes of the North Korean System; Interests of Other Powers; Recent Developments; Chapter Two - Methodology; Chapter Three - Attributes of the System and Instruments for Its Modernization; Salient Attributes of the DPRK System; Policy Instruments for Modernization; Chapter Four - Combining the Instruments into Operational Plans; Operational Plan A: Political Emphasis

Operational Plan B: Economic Emphasis Operational Plan C: Security Emphasis; Chapter Five - A Consensus Plan; Chapter Six - Project Results and Conclusions; Appendix - Contributions from the Five Collaborating Institutions Other Than RAND; References