Soundings 67: Ways of resisting

Sally Davison

Michael Rustin, Myra Barrs

Emily Zobel Marshall, Max Farrar, Guy Farrar

Rhian E. Jones

Sally Davison, Dave Featherstone, Mark Lyon

Mark Langhammer

Kirsty Capes

Amy Villarejo

Tendayi Bloom

Rima Saini

Abdellatif La√¢bi

Pyongyang is trapped in a paradox. The very measures it feels to be essential to the ensuring of its long-term survival are precisely those that are putting it in short-term peril. Kim Jong Un’s Byungjin line - which gives equal importance to the building of the nuclear deterrent and the development of the economy - is designed to provide the security and space necessary to allow time for the economy to grow. The ultimate intention is to transform North Korea into a variant of Vietnam or China. Yet the nuclear strand of this policy makes the country vulnerable to a ‘preventive’ strike by Washington and its ‘Coalition of the Willing’ (which would devastate Northeast Asia, not just North Korea).

Nora Rathzel