Korean endgame : a strategy for reunification and U.S. disengagement / Selig S. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Selig S.

Contributor:

Century Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean reunification question (1945- ).

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

Korea (North).

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

Korea (South).

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

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

With a New afterword by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Leone, Richard C.

Overview: The United States and Korea

PART I. Will North Korea Collapse?

Chapter 1. The Paralysis of American Policy

Chapter 2. Nationalism and the "Permanent Siege Mentality"

Chapter 3. The Confucian Legacy

Chapter 4. Reform by Stealth

Chapter 5. Gold, Oil, and the Basket-Case Image

Chapter 6. Kim Jong Il and His Successors

PART II. Reunification: Postponing the Dream

Chapter 7. Trading Places

Chapter 8. Confederation or Absorption?

Chapter 9. The United States and Reunification

PART III. Toward U.S. Disengagement

Chapter 10. Tripwire

Chapter 11. The United States and the Military Balance

Chapter 12. New Opportunities for Arms Control

Chapter 13. Ending the Korean War

Chapter 14. The Tar Baby Syndrome

Chapter 15. Guidelines for U.S. Policy

PART IV. Toward a Nuclear-Free Korea

Chapter 16. The U.S. Nuclear Challenge to North Korea

Chapter 17. The North Korean Response

Chapter 18. The 1994 Compromise: Can It Survive?

Chapter 19. Japan and Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 20. South Korea and Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 21. Guidelines for U.S. Policy

PART V. Korea in Northeast Asia

Chapter 22. Will History Repeat Itself?

Chapter 23. Korea, Japan, and the United States

Chapter 24. Korea, China, and the United States

Chapter 25. Korea, Russia, and the United States

Chapter 26. Then and Now

Notes to the Chapters

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612157080

9781400814336

1400814332

9781282157088

1282157086

9781400824915

1400824915

OCLC:

436873950