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Can China forgo alliances as it treads the path from emergence to peaceful development? Is regional security cooperation sufficient for its purposes? How can it associate its neighbours with its interests and security? This article offers some suggestions from a specialist.

South Korea's evolving regional role is surveyed. An update of East Asian relations examines competition for energy resources, rivalry for regional military dominance, & South-North Korean interaction. Shifting economic & political alignments have contributed to South Korea's aspiration to reduce US influence & to become a regional mediator. Adapted from the source document.

For a majority of observers, the political reality of the North Korea system is today divided into two potential scenarios: reform or collapse. These two readings are the basis element of the North Korea conundrum referred to a fundamental debate on the choice of the political option confronting to such a regime: dialogue or military option. Above these two binary notations, an alternative analysis is emerging on the fact that perhaps the North Korean leadership is building the conditions of a political transition based on the liability of an economical reform. The main problem lies in the capabilities of the regime to reform itself. In the absence of an ideological aggiornamento, as China did, the North Korean regime is condemned to sink. Adapted from the source document.