North Korea’s Strategic Intentions and Motivations.

As a window onto the questions of North Korean strategy and motivations (as well as the capacity of the leadership to achieve its aspirations), this paper will analyze the efforts of the North Korean leadership to cope with the economic effects of globalization. Utilizing Etel Solingen's theoretical analysis of state responses to globalization through the shaping of competing political coalitions that espouse opposing political grand strategies, the "internationalist" coalition and the "statist-national-confessionist" coalition, the paper assesses the extent to which it is possible to identify internationalist and backlash coalitions active in the North Korean leadership structure and in North Korean society. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]