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

Author
Harrison, Selig S.
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxix, 409 pages) : maps
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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.
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. foce redeployments and U.S. withdrawals in return for North Korean pullbacks from the thirty-eighth parallel.
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ISBN
9781400824915 (electronic bk.)
1400824915 (electronic bk.)
1400814332 (electronic bk.)
9781400814336 (electronic bk.)
9780691116266
0691116261 (Trade Paper)
9780691096049
069109604X
Note
"A Century Foundation book."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2002.
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