Korean endgame [electronic resource] : a strategy for reunification and U.S. disengagement / Selig Harrison.

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9781400824915

9781400814336

9780691116266

Title:

Korean endgame [electronic resource] : a strategy for reunification and U.S. disengagement / Selig Harrison.

Author:

Harrison, Selig S., author.

Personal Author:

Harrison, Selig S., author.

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1 online resource (xxix, 409 pages) : maps.

Series:

A Century Foundation book

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"A Century Foundation book."

Contents:

The paralysis of American policy -- Nationalism and the "permanent siege mentality" -- The Confucian legacy -- Reform by stealth -- Gold, oil, and the basket-case image -- Kim Jong Il and his successors -- Trading places -- Confederation or absorption? -- The United States and reunification -- Tripwire -- The United States and the military balance -- New opportunities for arms control -- Ending the Korean War -- The tar baby syndrome -- Guidelines for U.S. policy -- The U.S. nuclear challenge to North Korea -- The North Korean response -- The 1994 compromise : can it survive? -- Japan and nuclear weapons -- South Korea and nuclear weapons -- Guidelines for U.S. policy -- Will history repeat itself? -- Korea, Japan, and the United States -- Korea, China, and the United States -- Korea, Russia, and the United States -- Then and now : the case for a neutral Korea.

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Subject Term:

Korean reunification question (1945- )

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (North)

Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- United States.

United States -- Military relations -- Korea (South)

Korea (South) -- Military relations -- United States.

East Asia -- Strategic aspects.

Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- Korea (South)

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2002

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Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. While Russia and China withdrew the last of their forces in 1958, the United States maintains 37,000 troops in South Korea and is pledged to defend it with nuclear weapons. In Korean Endgame , Selig Harrison mounts the first authoritative challenge to this long-standing U.S. policy.

Harrison shows why North Korea is not--as many policymakers expect--about to collapse. And he explains why existing U.S. policies hamper North-South reconciliation and reunification. Assessing North Korean capabilities and the motivations that have led to its forward deployments, he spells out the arms control concessions by North Korea, South Korea, and the United States necessary to ease the dangers of confrontation, centering on reciprocal U.S. force redeployments and U.S. withdrawals in return for North Korean pullbacks from the thirty-eighth parallel.

Similarly, he proposes specific trade-offs to forestall the North's development of nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems, calling for the withdrawal of the U.S. nuclear umbrella in conjunction with agreements to denuclearize Korea embracing China, Russia, and Japan. The long-term goal of U.S. policy, he argues, should be the full disengagement of U.S. combat forces from Korea as part of regional agreements insulating the peninsula from all foreign conventional and nuclear forces.

A veteran journalist with decades of extensive firsthand knowledge of North Korea and long-standing contacts with leaders in Washington, Seoul, and Pyongyang, Harrison is perfectly placed to make these arguments. Throughout, he supports his analysis with revealing accounts of conversations with North Korean, South Korean, and U.S. leaders over thirty-five years. Combining probing scholarship with a seasoned reporter's on-the-ground experience and insights, he has given us the definitive book on U.S. policy in Korea--past, present, and future.

Author Notes

Selig S. Harrison is a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has visited North Korea seven times and met the late President Kim Il Sung twice. He played a key role in setting the stage for the 1994 U.S. nuclear freeze agreement with Pyongyang.

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Foreword	p. ix
Overview: The United States and Korea	p. xiii
Part I Will North Korea Collapse?	p. 1
Chapter 1 The Paralysis of American Policy	p. 3
Chapter 2 Nationalism and the "Permanent Siege Mentality"	p. 8
Chapter 3 The Confucian Legacy	p. 21
Chapter 4 Reform	p. 25
Chapter 5 Gold, Oil, and the Basket-Case Image	p. 48
Chapter 6 Kim Jong Il and His Successors	p. 53
Part II Reunification: Postponing the Dream	p. 67
Chapter 7 Trading Places	p. 69
Chapter 8 Confederation or Absorption?	p. 74
Chapter 9 The United States and Reunification	p. 102
Part III Toward U.S. Disengagement	p. 111
Chapter 10 Tripwire	p. 113
Chapter 11 The United States and the Military Balance	p. 124
Chapter 12 New Opportunities for Arms Control	p. 138
Chapter 13 Ending the Korean War	p. 154
Chapter 14 The Tar Baby Syndrome	p. 174
Chapter 15 Guidelines for U.S. Policy	p. 190
Part IV Toward a Nuclear-Free Korea	p. 195
Chapter 16 The U.S. Nuclear Challenge to North Korea	p. 197
Chapter 17 The North Korean Response	p. 201
Chapter 18 The 1994 Compromise: Can It Survive?	p. 215
Chapter 19 Japan and Nuclear Weapons	p. 231
Chapter 20 South Korea and Nuclear Weapons	p. 245
Chapter 21 Guidelines for U.S. Policy	p. 257
Part V Korea in Northeast Asia	p. 285
Chapter 22 Will History Repeat Itself?	p. 287
Chapter 23 Korea, Japan, and the United States	p. 290
Chapter 24 Korea, China, and the United States	p. 306
Chapter 25 Korea, Russia, and the United States	p. 328
Chapter 26 Then and Now: The Case for a Neutral Korea	p. 347
Notes to the Chapters	p. 357
Index	p. 393

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