Blueprints

Stabilizing money will be a central challenge in any post-Kim transition, requiring the immediate prevention of financial panic, the reconstruction of basic financial institutions, and the gradual restoration of confidence in the national currency.

A successful post-Kim economic transition will depend not on rapid liberalization but on a carefully sequenced process that first stabilizes the collapsed command system, then gradually expands market activity, and finally implements structural market reforms.

The immediate economic task after regime collapse will not be reform but governing a collapsed system during the first 90 days—stabilizing supply networks, markets, and monetary circulation under a United Nations–led framework combining domestic administrative continuity with international oversight.

A three-phase framework—continuity, reform, and institutionalization—positions humanitarian assistance and civilian protection as core security functions essential to stabilizing and rebuilding North Korea.

In a post-Kim North Korea, a three-phase transition—stabilization, demobilization, and constitutional reorientation—is essential to transform North Korea’s regime army into a lawful national institution and anchor the foundations of a new state.

Weapons control and denuclearization in post-Kim North Korea must proceed in sequence—from immediate custodial control in the first hours, to phased and internationally anchored reduction within the first year, and ultimately to irreversible institutionalization within three years, securing a durable new security order.