Article: Resolving the Prisoner's Dilemma Game between North Korea and the United States Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country (New Press 2004).(Book Review)

North Korea distrusts the United States. The United States distrusts North Korea. A helpful model for understanding the interaction between the two nations is the classic two-agent prisoner's dilemma game. As a simple game that replicates the mixed interests of an individual, the prisoner's dilemma parsimoniously presents possibilities for both conflict and cooperation. The game's potential to model dynamic human interaction is one that originates from an anecdote regarding two suspects of a crime used by A. W. Tucker. The two suspects are separated, so there is no discussion regarding their course of action. If they both do not confess, then the district attorney states ...

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