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Korean Endgame, August 2003
Hardcover

Korean Endgame
Selig Harrison

A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement

Princeton University Press
August 2003
On Sale: August 1, 2003
448 pages
ISBN: 0691116261
EAN: 9780691116266
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

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.

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.

A veteran journalist with decades of extensive firsthand knowledge of North Korea and long-standing contacts with leaders in Washington, Seoul, and Pyongyang, Harrison is perfectly placed to make these arguments. Throughout, he supports his analysis with revealing accounts of conversations with North Korean, South Korean, and U.S. leaders over thirty-five years. Combining probing scholarship with a seasoned reporter's on-the-ground experience and insights, he has given us the definitive book on U.S. policy in Korea--past, present, and future.

Comments

2 comments posted.

Re: Korean Endgame

The first one received a whole epilogue and already three heroes,
which you can control. But, with all the coolness (for fans) Link, Tetra
and King Daphnes, the main novice is to name another. And it's not
even Scully Kid from Majora's Mask, and the one who is now fighting
with him - Linkl, the female version of Link and the triumph of feminism
in a single universe. The girl, added on the principle of "to be", was a
very pleasant fighter. Mission for her fleeting, funny (in the role of
supporting "cannon fodder" there can be chicken), and her crossbows
- the most spectacular weapon in the arsenal of defenders Khairul.
(Daimond Salvadore 11:37am May 20, 2018)

Fresh stages increase the campaign by almost a third, but without them
the plot is only the tip of the iceberg. The Free Mode has not
disappeared anywhere, allowing you to replay any battle for any
available character. Including for the villains - from the Dark Link to
Ganondorf.
(Daimond Salvadore 11:37am May 20, 2018)