Introduction / Philip W. Yun and Gi-Wook Shin = 9 Talk to me, later / Robert Carlin = 19 North Korea today : politics overloaded and secularized / Haksoon Paik = 37 North Korea : how to reform a broken economy / William B. Brown = 55 The present and future of the Kaesong Industrial Complex / Yong Sueng Dong = 79 Human rights and the crisis in North Korea / David Hawk = 103 Perspectives on North Korean "displaced persons" / Kim Ki-Sik = 125 A comparison of U.S. and South Korean national security strategies : implications for alliance coordination toward North Korea / Scott Snyder = 149 North Korea : economic foundations of military capability and the inter-Korean balance / Taik-young Hamm = 167 On dealing with a hard case : North Korea / Henry S. Rowen = 197 The North Korean nuclear weapons problem : why regime change through coercion won't work / Philip W. Yun = 211 Contributors = 251.