Part One: Historicallegacies 1. The Emergence of Siberia and the Russian Far East as a \"New Frontier\"for Koreans since the 1980s 2. Russian Foreign Ministry Documents on the Origins of the Korean War Part Two: InternalPolitics and External Realations of North Korea 3. The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and the Geneva Agreement: 1980s-1997 4. North Korea After Kim Il Sung and the Future of North-South Korean Relations 5. North Korea Falling Apart? 6. North Korea Since Kim Jong Il Became the General Secretary of the Korean Workers'' Party(October 1997-May 2004) 7. on the Nature of the North Korean State Part Three: Internal Politics and External Relations of South Korea 8. The Process of Leading to the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union: 1988-1990 9. The Establishment of South Korean-Chinese Diplomatic Relations: 1988-1992 10. South Korea-U.S. Relations: 1948-2002(with Emphasis on Tensions between the Kim Dae Jung and George W. Bush Administrations 11. South Korea''s Internal Politics Since Roh Moo-hyun was Elected the President of the Repubic of Korea(December 2002-May 2004) 12. South Korea''s Relations with the United States and North Korea Since Roh Moo-hyun was Elected the President of the Republic of Korea(December 2002-May 2004) Part Four: Inter-Korean Relations 13. The North-South Summit Conference, the North-South Joint Declaration, Subsequent Events, and Their Meaning(February 1998-December 2000) 14. North Korea''s \"Fedration at the Low Stage\"and South Korea''s \"Confederation:\"Their Origins, Evolutions, Approximations, and Characteristics 15. Internal Politics and External Relations of the Two Koreas and the Third Round of Six-Party Talks(April-November 2004) 16. The North Korean Nuclear Issue in the Fourth Round of Six-Party Talks(November 2004-September 2005) 17. The North Korean Nuclear Issue and the Fifth Round of Six-Party Talks(September 2005-April 2006)