朝鲜政权，尽管它明白无误的失败（甚至都不能养活自己），却苟活于国际体系的缝隙当中：中苏交恶；
North Korea 's regime , despite its manifest failures ( even to provide enough to eat ), has survived in the cracks in the international system : the Sino-Soviet split ;
中苏交恶