
In this book, David W. Shin argues that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who is often labeled a madman by the press, is actually a competent strategist who has been consistently underestimated.

In Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival, David W. Shin contends that Kim Jong-un's consolidation of power at home and the leveraging of Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, and Washington, and others abroad show that he is not a madman and, like the two earlier Kims, has consistently been...