ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author both defines the individual roles and describes the trends and changes of particular roles. The individual roles are linked to the context of North Korean interactions with its significant others. Particular members of the groups of friends and foes are presented and described. The author was able to detect 20 national roles in the whole period covered by the analysis. Some of them constitute a crucial and stable part of North Korean role sets, some seem to be less significant and the others are rather marginal or role deviations. The North Korean case supports the assumption of role theoretic scholars that states usually adopt more then one role at the same time. The major roles North Korea declared are linked with the group of foes of significant others but one should not forget about the group of friends, as they function as the secondary base for the remaining roles the DPRK declares.
