TY - BOOK AU - COPLEY Gregory R TI - The new Asian strategic balance PY - 2007/// KW - NORTH KOREA KW - NUCLEAR KW - CHINA N2 - The leadership of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is facing a strategic watershed or series of unfortunate by products created by its inability to control the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Jong II 's demonstration detonation of a nuclear weapon on October 9 2006 forced a series changes in attitudes toward defense and regional security by Japan, republic of Korea, US, republic of China, Taiwan, and Russia ER -