Editor’s Note Ⅰ. North Korea’s Economic Opening-Up Policies: Past Records and Future Prospects/ Kyuryoon Kim (Korea Institute for National Unification) Ⅱ. South Korea’s Policies toward North Korea: Continuities and Changes/ Han-bum Cho (Korea Institute for National Unification) Ⅲ. Economic Relations between South and North Korea: Present Status and Future Scenarios for Development/ Hyeong-jung Park (Korea Institute for National Unification) Ⅳ. South Korea’s Economic Policies toward North Korea: Alternatives for Promoting North Korea’s Economic Opening-Up/ Kang-taeg Lim (Korea Institute for National Unification) Ⅴ. Economic Relations between China and North Korea: Current Status and Future Prospects/ Zhe Jin (Liaoning Academy of Social Science) Ⅵ. Recent Economic Relations between Japan and North Korea/ Mitsuhiro Mimura (Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia) Ⅶ. Economic Relations between Russia and North Korea/ Alexey Yu. Starichkov (Far Eastern National University), Kyuryoon Kim (Korea Institute for National Unification) Ⅷ. North Korea’s External Economic Relations: Past, Present, and Future/ Kyuryoon Kim (Korea Institute for National Unification)