Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison
A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement
How much do you really know about North Korea? With the global situation as it is, Americans and others need to understand more about the problems we are facing. Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison may be a source of good information for you.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Overview: The United States and Korea xiii
PART I: Will North Korea Collapse? 1
Chapter 1: The Paralysis of American Policy 3
Chapter 2: Nationalism and the "Permanent Siege Mentality" 8
Chapter 3: The Confucian Legacy 21
Chapter 4: Reform by Stealth 25
Chapter 5: Gold, Oil, and the Basket-Case Image 48
Chapter 6: Kim Jong Il and His Successors 53
PART II: Reunification: Postponing the Dream 67
Chapter 7: Trading Places 69
Chapter 8: Confederation or Absorption? 74
Chapter 9: The United States and Reunification 102
PART III: Toward U.S. Disengagement 111
Chapter 10: Tripwire 113
Chapter 11: The United States and the Military Balance 124
Chapter 12: New Opportunities for Arms Control 138
Chapter 13: Ending the Korean War 154
Chapter 14: The Tar Baby Syndrome 174
Chapter 15: Guidelines for U.S. Policy 190
PART IV: Toward a Nuclear-Free Korea 195
Chapter 16: The U.S. Nuclear Challenge to North Korea 197
Chapter 17: The North Korean Response 201
Chapter 18: The 1994 Compromise: Can It Survive? 215
Chapter 19: Japan and Nuclear Weapons 231
Chapter 20: South Korea and Nuclear Weapons 245
Chapter 21: Guidelines for U.S. Policy 257
PART V: Korea in Northeast Asia 285
Chapter 22: Will History Repeat Itself? 287
Chapter 23: Korea, Japan, and the United States 290
Chapter 24: Korea, China, and the United States 306
Chapter 25: Korea, Russia, and the United States 328
Chapter 26: Then and Now: The Case for a Neutral Korea 347
Notes to the Chapters 357
Index 393
About the Author
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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And the Wind Blew Cold by Richard M. Bassett, Lewis H. Carlson |
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner |
Avoiding the Apocalypse by Marcus Noland, C. Fred Bergsten |
Disarming Strangers by Leon V. Sigal |
East of Chosin by Roy Edgar Appleman |
Facts Tell by Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea |
From Stalin to Kim Il Sung by Andrei Lankov, A. N. LAN'Kov |
The Great North Korean Famine by Andrew S. Natsios |
In Enemy Hands by Larry Zellers |
Korean Atrocity! by Philip D. Chinnery |
Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison |
Korea's Future and the Great Powers by Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Ellings |
Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings |
Negotiating on the Edge by Scott Snyder |
The North and South Korean Political Systems by Song Chol Yang, Sung Chul Yang, Song-Ch'ol Yang |
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Charles K. Armstrong |
North Korea and the Bomb by Michael J. Mazarr |
North Korea by Han S. Park - The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom |
North Korea through the Looking Glass by Kong Dan Oh, Ralph C. Hassig, Kongdan Oh |
North Korea Under Communism by Erik Cornell |
North and South Korea by William Dudley |
One Anthropologist, Two Worlds by Choong Soon Kim |
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson |
The Two Koreas by Don Oberdorfer |
White Tigers by Ben S. Malcom, Ron Martz