The US Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat ─ Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma

"A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma as a conceptual frame of analysis is thus not only hugely topical, but also particularly relevant for the 21st century on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. Is there the prospect of a security dilemma contagion if North Korea acquire nuclear weapons capability leading to an Asia Pacific wide nuclear arms race? This book examines this contentious issue in-depth and explores the difficult choices policymakers face as a result of the uncertainty in international politics"--

Er-Win Tan is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.