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Charting the turbulent history of US-North Korean affairs from the 1960s through to 2010, Rival Reputations explores how past incidents and crises can be relied upon to help determine threat credibility and the willingness of an adversary to resort to violence. Using reputation as the framework, this book answers some of the most vexing questions regarding both US and North Korean foreign policy. These include how they have managed to evade war, why North Korea - a much weaker power - has not been deterred by superior American military power from repeated violent provocations against the United States and South Korea, and why US officials in every administration have rarely taken North Korean threats seriously. Van Jackson urges us to jettison the conventional view of North Korean threats and violence as part of a 'cycle' of provocation and instead to recognize them as part of a pattern of rivalry inherent in North Korea's foreign relations.

Crises --- Threats of violence --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Believability --- Credibility --- Falsehood --- Lying --- Post-truth --- Untruthfulness --- Reliability --- Truth --- Honesty --- Violence, Threats of --- Violent threats --- Threats --- Change --- Political aspects --- History. --- United States --- Korea (North) --- Korean People's Republic --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- North Korea --- KNDR --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- KRLD --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- D.P.R.K. --- DPRK --- Corée du Nord --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Corea (North) --- North Korean Interim Government --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 --- Foreign relations --- Philosophy.