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This comprehensive study provides a detailed analysis of the military buildup in the East Asian countries: China, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea. Hickey assesses the capabilities, strategies, intentions, and performance of each government's military in the context of the potential for regional instability and conflict. In his concluding chapter, he also explores U.S. objectives in the region and examines the implications of recent developments for U.S. foreign policy.

East Asia --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Armed Forces. --- Strategic aspects. --- J4880.90 --- J4891.10 --- K9570.90 --- K9570 --- S07/0350 --- S26/0650 --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Asia: International relations and defense in East Asia --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history --- China: Army and police force--Army, navy and air force: since 1949 --- Taiwan--Army, navy and airforce --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian.

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Coming to the issues from different perspectives, the authors together have written an essential work of clear-eyed reflection and authoritative analysis. They refute a number of misconceptions and challenge faulty thinking that surrounds the discussion of North Korea, most important, the idea that North Korea is an irrational nation. Cha and Kang contend that however provocative, even deplorable, the North's behavior may at times be, it is not incomprehensible or incoherent.

Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- United States. --- Korea (North) -- Military policy. --- Nuclear warfare -- Korea (North). --- United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (North). --- World politics -- 21st century. --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Armies --- Nuclear warfare --- World politics --- Korea (North) --- United States --- Military policy. --- Foreign relations --- Atomic warfare --- CBR warfare --- Nuclear strategy --- Nuclear war --- Thermonuclear warfare --- War --- Nuclear crisis control --- Nuclear weapons --- K9564.11 --- K9570.90 --- K9578.15 --- Korea: International politics, law and relations of North Korea -- North America -- United States --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Defense and military -- weaponry -- North Korea

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Polemology --- East Asia --- Northern Asia --- International relations --- Intervention (International law) --- Security, International --- War (International law) --- J4810.90 --- J4812.10 --- J4880.90 --- J4881.90 --- K9540.80 --- K9551.10 --- K9561.10 --- K9570.90 --- K9570 --- S07/0360 --- S09/0264 --- S09/0410 --- Hostilities --- International law --- Neutrality --- Collective security --- International security --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Military intervention --- Diplomacy --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- East Asia --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Defense and military -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- East Asia --- Korea: International politics, law and relations of North Korea -- East Asia --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history --- China: Army and police force--Theoretical: guerilla warfare, strategy --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works: since 1989 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--Relations with Asian countries --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Military policy. --- Politics and government. --- Foreign relations.

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North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat -- he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it.

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