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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.

KOREA (NORTH)--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- KOREA (NORTH)--MILITARY POLICY --- KOREA (NORTH)--NATIONAL SECURITY

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Polemology --- North Korea --- Nuclear weapons --- National security --- Armes nucléaires --- Sécurité nationale --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- Korea (North) --- Corée du Nord --- Military policy --- Politique militaire --- Security, International --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Nuclear weaponsKorea (North) --- Korea (North)Military policy --- Armes nucléaires --- Sécurité nationale --- Corée du Nord --- Nuclear weapons - Korea (North) --- Korea (North) - Military policy --- Korea (North) - Foreign relations --- Korea (North) - Politics and government

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In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era, and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Grounded in security studies and informed analysis of the US response to North Korea's increasing nuclear threat, Trump's aggressive rhetoric is analysed in the context of prior US policy failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean strategic culture and the acceleration of its nuclear programme. Jackson argues that the Trump administration's policy of 'maximum pressure' brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear war than many realise - and charts a course for the prevention of future conflicts.

Nuclear weapons --- Testing --- Trump, Donald, --- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, --- United States --- Korea (North) --- Foreign relations --- Military policy --- Nuclear warfare --- Atomic warfare --- CBR warfare --- Nuclear strategy --- Nuclear war --- Thermonuclear warfare --- War --- Nuclear crisis control --- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, --- 김 정은, --- Kim, Jong-un, --- Kim, Jong-eun, --- Kimu, Jon'un, --- 金 正恩, --- 金正恩, --- Trump, Donald J., --- Tramp, Donalʹd, --- Трамп, Дональд, --- 川普唐納德, --- The Donald, --- Donald, --- Trump, Donald John, --- Nuclear weapons - Korea (North) --- Nuclear weapons - Korea (North) - Testing --- Trump, Donald, - 1946 --- -Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, - 1984 --- -United States - Foreign relations - Korea (North) --- Korea (North) - Foreign relations - United States --- Korea (North) - Military policy --- -United States

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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"--

Military planning --- War planning --- Military administration --- Military policy --- Planning --- MILITARY PLANNING--KOREA (NORTH) --- KOREA (NORTH)--ARMED FORCES--OPERATIONAL READINESS --- KOREA (NORTH)--MILITARY POLICY --- KOREA (NORTH)--NATIONAL SECURITY --- Korea (North) --- Armed Forces --- Operational readiness. --- Military policy. --- Defenses. --- 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 --- K9570.90 --- Korea: Defense and military -- general and history -- North Korea (1945- )