China and North Korea Strategic and Policy Perspectives from a Changing China

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.

Carla P. Freeman is Associate Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and director of the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. She writes widely on China's domestic and foreign policy, including China's policy toward North Korea.

Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword; Ambassador John Bosworth
Map
1. Introduction: Continuity and Change in Chinese Expert Views of North Korea; Carla P. Freeman
PART I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA AND REGIONAL SECURITY
2. Painful Lessons, Reversing Practices, and Ongoing Limitations: China Facing North Korea since 2003; SHI Yinhong
3. North Korea's Security Implications for China; ZHU Feng and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
4. Identifying a New, More Effective Role for China vis-à-vis Korean Peninsula Issues through an Integrated Class Analysis Approach with Chinese Characteristics; PIAO Jianyi and MA Yuanpeng
5. Chinese Views of North Korea's Regional Role; YU Shaohua
6. Refuting Two Historical Myths: A New Interpretation of China-North Korean Relations; SHEN Zhihua and Yafeng Xia
PART II: CHINA-NORTH KOREA RELATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
7. China's Anti-Japanese War and the Independence Movement on the Korean Peninsula; JIN Jingyi
8. The Evolution of the Lips and Teeth Relationship: China-North Korea Relations in the 1960s; CHENG Xiaohe
9. An Attempt at Analyzing the Cross and Triangular Divided Relations among the Four Regimes in China and the Korean Peninsula after World War II; QUAN Hexiu
PART III: THE MANY FACETS OF CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA
10. China's Policy toward the DPRK's Nuclear and Missile Programs; GU Guoliang
11. China's Role and its Dilemma in the Six Party Talks; YANG Xiyu
12. A Strategic and Emotional Partner: China and its Food Aid to North Korea in the Twenty-first Century; LI Nan
13. Evaluating North Korea's Economic Policy in the 2000s—Economic Cooperation with China is an Inevitable Choice; Lin Jinsu
14. North Korea's Guiding Ideology and its Impact; LI Yongchun
15. 'Hereditary Succession' and the DPRK Leadership; JIN Zhe
Notes on contributors