Enduring Issues / Changing Perspectives 2

This is a second installment of our “Enduring Issues/Changing Perspectives” series, in which we invite prominent scholars to revisit a noted past Pacific Affairs article to reassess its content and gauge its historical influence and current relevance. The focus of this installment is B.C. Koh’s “North Korea and its Quest for Autonomy.” Alongside a reprint of the original article will be found contemporary commentary and reaction to it by a panel of esteemed North Korean scholars. Assessing the article’s content and influence after the passage of half a century, our participants take into consideration such things as North Korea’s success or failure in obtaining political and economic autonomy as well as the original article’s role in persistent controversies surrounding the (mis)interpretation and function of the North Korean concept of juche (chuch’e). Besides the reprint, the articles include:

北韩及其对自主的追寻

本期杂志还登载了系列讨论“持久的问题/变化中的视角”的第二期内容，这个连载系列每期针对《太平洋事务》以往发表的一篇著名文章，特邀知名学者对其内容重新加以评估，并就其历史影响以及目前的相关意义作出评价。本期专栏讨论的文章是B.C.Koh的“北韩及其对自主的追寻”。本期杂志重刊了该文原文，以及一组声誉卓著的北韩问题专家应邀为其撰写的当代评论。原文发表半个世纪后的今天，各位学者在评价该文章的内容和影响时，考察了北韩在追寻政治和经济自主之路上的成败得失，以及在长期以来围绕着对北韩juche (chuch’e) 这一概念的解读（或误读）及其作用的理解而进行的争议中,该文章所起到的作用。在重刊原文之外，专栏文章还包括：

Translated from English by Li Guo