Korean Endgame : : A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement / / Selig S. Harrison.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:With a New afterword by the author
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • 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