North Korea and Northeast Asia by Samuel S. Kim, Tai Hwan Lee... - 9780742517110

North Korea and Northeast AsiaAuthor(s): Samuel S. Kim, Tai Hwan Lee, Victor D. Cha, C S. Eliot Kang, Myonwoo Lee, Robert A. Manning, Marcus Noland, Elizabeth Wishnick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742517110, 978-0742517110\nSynopsis\nA country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world significance. What has made it possible for North Korea to defy the classical realist axiom, \""The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept\""? What is the nature of the North Korean threat in post-Cold War Northeast Asia? What kind of bargaining leverage does Pyongyang exercise in system-maintaining survival strategies? What are North Korea's prospects for sustaining such survival strategies in the uncertain years ahead? \n\nThi.