Korean Endgame; A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement
Marcella Roberts (Jacket design) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 409, [1] pages. Frontis map. Notes to the Chapters. Index. Inscribed and dated on fep by "Sig". A Century Foundation Book. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Selig Seidenman Harrison (March 19, 1927 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar and journalist (a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia), who specialized in South Asia and East Asia. He was the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group. He wrote five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. His book, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, won the 2002 award of the Association of American Publishers for the best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science. His opinions on Administration policies often appeared in major newspapers, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. 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. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: North Korea, Arms Control, Denuclearization, Disengagement, Cold War, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Kim Jong Il, Kim Dae Jung, Kim Il Sung, Missile Development, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Freeze, Reunification
ISBN: 069109604X
[Book #77224]
Price: $75.00