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Rationality in the North Korean Regime : Understanding the Kims' Strategy of Provocation
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ISBN: 9781498566254 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books,

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How and why are the Kims rational ? There is no consensus about either the Kims' rationality or how best to determine if they are rational actors. This book offers a concise and finite method to assess rationality by examining over ten cases of provocations from the Korean War to the 2015 land mine incident. The author asserts that Kim II-sung was predominantly a rational actor, though the regime behaved irrationally at times under his rule, and that both Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-un have clearly been rational actors. As a rational actor, Kim Jong-un is unlikely to give up his nuclear weapons. This book argues that Kim can be deterred from using them if the United States demonstrates its willingness to coexist with his regime and pursues long-term engagement to reduce Kim's concern that North Korea's sovereignty needs defending from U.S. hostile policy. This could allow gradual social change within the country that could eventually lead to positive systemic change as well as soften Kim's rule. In this regard, time may be on the side of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, but the two allies must embrace the long view and learn to be more patient or risk another conflict on the Korean Peninsula.


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Defense planning and readiness of North Korea : Armed to rule
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ISBN: 9781003039051 1003039057 9781000383096 1000383091 9781000383065 1000383067 9780367482862 9780367771102 036748286X 0367771101 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge

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"How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends? Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea's defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and societal factors affect the Korean People's Army's (KPA) readiness and strategies. He answers four key questions: How have the internal and external factors shaped North Korea's security strategy? How do the political, economic, societal, and environmental factors impact North Korea's defense planning? What are North Korea's defense planning dilemmas and how do they impact the KPA's readiness? What are the key implications for regional security and the strategies against North Korea? This analysis, drawing on various Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese sources on North Korea and military affairs, will be of great value to strategists and policy analysts as well as scholars of East Asian security issues"--

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