According to international relations scholar Kang (2003) one of the greatest puzzles of the postwar world is why the conflict between communist North Korea and South Korea has not re-erupted, despite the prediction that this would occur by most scholars. The purpose of Kang’s essay is to answer how so many respected scholars were so mistaken. In one succinct and concise sentence, Kang states: “The case of North Korea provides a window with which to examine these theories of conflict initiation, and reveals how the assumptions underlying these theories can become mis-specified” (Kang, 2003, p.302). Kang argues that both the theory of how conflicts occur and the actual conditions on the ground in Korea were misunderstood. Kang also identifies novel facets of the North Korean perspective which he says have gone unnoticed by the West. “The flurry of North Korean diplomatic and economic initiatives in the past few years show that far from having given up hope and seeing inevitable economic collapse, the North Korean leadership is actively pursuing a strategy they hope will ease their domestic problems” (Kang, 2003, p.302). The conflict perspective suggests that preventative wars are preferable from a rationalist perspective, but the North Korean perspective of the world situation and its own...
However, although Kang uses examples from real world events, he is less interested in analyzing why no conflict between the two regimes have occurred and more interested in understanding the failure of realism-based theories such as conflict theory to explain this.References
Kang, D.C. (2003). International relations theory and the second Korean War.
International Studies Quarterly, 47, 301–324
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