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The rise of China may has triggered a change in international structure and behavioral pattern, or at least a discourse as such. And the discourse is generally tilted toward the pessimistic end, a system-wide hegemonic war or competition, and the return of brute power politics. Such a turn takes place in the broad context of the retreat of liberal world order, where exclusive nationalism eclipse open internationalism. From a different angle, however, such changes can be seen as a natural adjustment process by which the excesses of the power and role of the United States in a unipolar world on the one hand, and globalization of world economy on the other are corrected, hence should not be received with too big an alarm. Meanwhile, the changes in East Asia have a potential to generate a full scale power politics with deep security dilemma among major actors. North Korea’s challenge with its weapons of mass destruction poses both a challenge to trigger and an opportunity to dampen such a spiral.