STRATEGIC, BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT PROFILES = 12 Basic Information = 12 IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA = 23Q & A About North Korea = 23 Profile = 29 HISTORY = 44 POPULATION AND SOCIETY = 75 Population = 76 Social Structure, Traditions and Culture = 79 Culture and Language = 93 GENERAL SECRETARY KIM JONG IL HANDBOOK = 99 Selected statements and materias = 99 Political and government system = 142 Relationship between the government and the party = 146 Organization of the government = 148 Party leadership and elite recruitment = 155 The judicial system = 159 NORTH KOREA POLICY : SELECTED STRATEGIC TOPICS = 166 North Korea policy of the Kim Dae-Jung administration = 166 Unification policy = 171 NORTH KOREA: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS OWERVIEW = 195 Polutical system = 195 Organization of the government = 196 Economy = 196 People' life = 194 Education & culture = 198 Literature and art = 198 Military = 199 Foreign Policy = 200 Economy & Trade = 200 CURRENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION ON NORTH KOREA = 202 General situation = 202 Domestic developments = 203 Growing popular discontent and increasing number of defectors = 207 Foreign policies = 208 Assessments and prospects = 212 NORTH KOREA IN TRANSITION = 214 North Korea's strategy against South Korea = 217 US POSITION ON NONPROLIFIRATION PROCESS IN ASIA AND IN NORTH KOREA = 220 CAPABILITIES, INTENTIONS, AND TRENDS = 222 North Korea = 222 China = 226 NORTHERN KOREAU PRESENT & FUTURE = 232 A POST-KlM-lL-SONG NORTH KOREA: NATI0NAL GOALS = 232 POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE = 233 KOREAN MILITARY INDUSTRY & POLICY = 235 NORTH KOREAN ECONOMY: BASIC TRENDS = 241 FOREIGN TRADE: BASIC TRENDS = 255 THE FOOD CRISIS IN NORTH KOREA = 271 BUSINESS ACTIVITY AND GORVERNMENT REGULATIONS = 280 SOUTH-NORTH ECONOMIC COOPERATION: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS = 280 SOUTH-KOREA APPROACH = 280 NORTH-KOREA APPROACH = 280 METHODS AND PROCEDURES = 283 FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN NORTH KOREA = 297 INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA = 305 SELECTED OFFICIAL MATERIALS ON NORTH KOREA = 327 SUPPLEMENTS = 335 The list of basic agreements between the south korea and the North Kores = 335 Agreement on reconciliation, nonaggression, and exchanges and cooperation between South and North Korea = 337 Background on North Korean missile development = 379 CHAPTER TWO NORTH KOREAN CONVENTIONAL FORCES =382 CHAPTER THREE NORTH KOREAN THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY = 386 CHAPTER FOUR SUSTAINING THE NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT = 396 CHAPTER FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE = 405 North Korea: What you need to know about the U.S. embargo = 429.