China and North Korea: Strategic and Policy Perspectives from a Changing China (International Relations and Comparisons in Northeast Asia)

"At a time when China's historically close "as lips and teeth" relations with North Korea appear to be changing, this volume provides unique access in English to the diverse perspectives informing China's North Korea policy and insights into how Chinese specialists assess a country that, while both its neighbor and ally, is also a threat to international security and China's national interests. The editor has gathered original essays by some of today's leading Chinese experts on China's foreign policy toward North Korea, the history of Beijing's relations with Pyongyang, and North Korea's politics and economy. Contributors include scholars from China's elite universities and think tanks in Beijing, as well as from provinces bordering North Korea"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 Foreword 14 Acknowledgments 16 Chapter 1 Introduction: Continuity and Change in Chinese Expert Views of North Korea 18 PART I New Perspectives on China’s Relations with North Korea and Regional Security 32 Chapter 2 Painful Lessons, Reversing Practices, and Ongoing Limitations: China Facing North Korea since 2003 34 Chapter 3 North Korea’s Security Implications for China 54 Chapter 4 Identifying a New, More Effective Role for China vis-à-vis Korean Peninsula Issues through an Integrated Class Analys 82 Chapter 5 Chinese Views of North Korea’s Regional Role 98 Chapter 6 Refuting Two Historical Myths: A New Interpretation of China-North Korean Relations 108 PART II China-North Korea Relations in Historical Perspective 124 Chapter 7 China’s Anti-Japanese War and the Independence Movement on the Korean Peninsula 126 Chapter 8 The Evolution of the Lips and Teeth Relationship: China-North Korea Relations in the 1960s* 136 Chapter 9 An Attempt at Analyzing the Cross and Triangular Divided Relations among the Four Regimes in China and the Korean Pen 156 PART III The Many Facets of China’s Relations with North Korea 172 Chapter 10 China’s Policy toward the DPRK’s Nuclear and Missile Programs 174 Chapter 11 China’s Role and Its Dilemmas in the Six-Party Talks 196 Chapter 12 A Strategic and Emotional Partner: China and Its Food Aid to North Korea in the Twenty-First Century* 206 Chapter 13 Evaluating North Korea’s Economic Policy in the 2000s—Economic Cooperation with China Is an Inevitable Choice 222 Chapter 14 North Korea’s Guiding Ideology and Its Impact 242 Chapter 15 “Hereditary Succession” and the DPRK Leadership 258 Notes on Contributors 266 Index 270 At a time when Chinese policy makers appear to be rethinking China's historically close alliance relationship with North Korea, this volume gathers a diverse collection of original essays by some of China's leading experts on North Korea and China's North Korea policy.