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Korean endgame

Selig S. Harrison

2002,2009

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Adviser / Anti-Americanism / Armistice / Beijing / Bruce Cumings / Chairman / China / China–United States relations / Chun Doo-hwan / Cold War / Division of Korea / East Asia / East Asia -- Strategic aspects / Economic sanctions / Foreign policy / Foreign relations / Great power / History / International Relations / Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) / Japan–United States relations / Juche / Kim Dae-jung / Kim Il-sung / Kim Young-sam / Korea / Korea (North) / Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- United States / Korea (South) / Korea (South) -- Military relations -- United States / Korea under Japanese rule / Korean conflict / Korean nationalism / Korean Peninsula / Korean People's Army / Korean reunification / Korean reunification question (1945- ) / Korean War / Koreans / Liberalization / Manchuria / Military alliance / Military relations / Military strategy / National security / North Korea / North Korea–South Korea relations / Northeast Asia / Nuclear arms race / Nuclear power / Nuclear proliferation / Nuclear reactor / Nuclear umbrella / Nuclear warfare / Nuclear weapon / Nuclear-free zone / Park Chung-hee / Peace treaty / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General / Pyongyang / Rogue state / Sakhalin / Seoul / South Korea / South Korea–United States relations / Soviet Union / Strategic aspects / Subsidy / Sunshine Policy / Superiority (short story) / Supreme People's Assembly / Syngman Rhee / Tactical nuclear weapon / Technology / Totalitarianism / Treaty / Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan / United States / United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (North) / United States -- Military relations -- Korea (South) / United States Department of State / United States national missile defense / War / World War II
• ISBN: 069109604X, 9780691116266, 9780691096049, 1400824915, 0691116261, 9781400824915