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Coping with the Korean Peace Process: An American View

Pages 159-180 | Published online: 25 Mar 2009

  • 1994 . One Korea? Challenges and Prospects for Reunification Stanford : Hoover Institution Press . For thorough analyses of the issues associated with Korea's unification, see Thomas H. Henriksen and Kyongsoo Lho, (and Nicholas Eberstadt, Korea Approaches Reunification (Armonk: M.E. Shape, 1995).
  • 1996 . The Major Powers of Northeast Asia; Seeking Peace and Security Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers) . For a recent set of analyses that focus on the roles of the major powers in Korea, see Tae-hwan Kwak and Edward A. Olsen, editors, (
  • Numerous US policy statements have underscored this bottom line of US policy toward Korea. For an example of the Clinton administration's version of this policy line, see Secretary of Defense Perry's affirmation of the US-ROK alliance, Korea Herald, April 16, 1996, p. 1. See, also, the background analysis by William E. Berry, Jr., “The Invitation to Struggle: Executive and Legislative Competition over the US Military Presence on the Korean Peninsula,” Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, May 17, 1996.
  • Wolf Mendl, Japan's Asia Policy; Regional Security and Global Interests, (London Routledge, 1995); and Michael Yahuda, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific, 1945–1995 (London: Routledge, 1996), provide insights into how the Sino-Japanese relationship may evolve.
  • The Clinton-Kim summit's four-power proposal is assessed in Lee Jong-seok, “Four-Way Talks and Future South-North Relations,” Korea Focus, May-June 1996, pp. 46–55.
  • 1982 . The Korean Conflict: Search for Unification New Delhi : Prentice Hall of India . For histories of these multi-party proposals, see M. P. Srivastava, (Choy Bong-youn, A History of the Korean Unification Movement: Its Issues and Prospects (Peoria: Institute of International Studies, Bradley University, 1984); Kwak Tae-hwan, Kim Chong-han, and Kim Hong-nak, editors, Korean Reunification New Perspectives and Approaches (Seoul: Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1984); Kim Hak-joon, Unification Policies of South and North Korea; A Comparative Study (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1986); and Kwak Tae-hwan, In Search of Peace and Unification on the Korean Peninsula (Seoul: Seoul Computer Press, 1986).
  • Examples of NGO peace efforts are described in Desmond Ball, “A New Era in Confidence Building: The Second Track Process in the Asia/Pacific Region,” Security Dialogue, Vol. 25 (2), 1994; and Owen Greene, Confidence Building in North-East Asia (Bradford: University of Bradford, Arms Register Series, 1996).
  • The author delved into this tripartite proposal in greater depth in his “The Conventional Military Strength of North Korea Implications for Inter-Korean Security,” in Suh Dae-sook and Lee Chae-jin, editors, North Korea Under Kim Jong Il (forthcoming).
  • For example, see Far Eastern Economic Review, July 18, 1996, pp. 14–15.
  • CSIS Vice President Bill Taylor articulated those concerns at a “Conference on Asian Regional Security Issues” sponsored by the US Air Force at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, June 26–27, 1996.
  • For advocacy of US-ROK economic outreach to North Korea, see the position of William Newcomb and John Merrill presented at an international symposium on North Korea, Korea Herald, August 21, 1996, p. 2. The author suggested an early version of that theme in his “The United States” Korea Policy Offering Pyongyang an Economic Carrot,” Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Fall 1982, pp. 41–52.
  • 1994 . A Study of Bribery Among North Korean Officials Seoul : The Research Institute for National Unification . Although this particular decision should be a South Korean decision, they may well recall that Washington has experience in such matters-notably in creating the means for Syngman Rhee and Ferdinand Marcos to resurface in Hawaii. South Korean officials also should consult one of their own government's studies on the efficacy of behind-the-scenes material incentives in North Korea. Kim Sung-chul, (
  • No one knows what a reunified Korean state will be called, but it will be referred to here as “United Korea.”
  • On the other hand, were the United States to abstain from that central role and were that function to be played by another country-most likely China-the strategic scenarios that would flow from that decision would not necessarily mirror those presented here for US-United Korea relations.
  • For examples of such perceptions, see Jonathan D. Pollack and Cha Young-koo, A New Alliance for the Next Century, The Future of US-Korean Security Cooperation, (Santa Monica: RAND, 1996); and Kim Hong-nak, “The United States and Korea Dynamics of Political and Security Relations in the 1990s,” Korea and World Affairs, Spring 1995, pp. 5–28.
  • US Ambassador Laney's recommitment of the United States to Korea's long-term security as a “keystone” for US policy in Asia is a good illustration of such intentional vagueness, Pacific Bridge, Summer 1995, pp. 5–6.
  • For analyses of US policy toward Asia that is shaped by US-PRC tensions, see the opposing views by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “The Case for Deep Engagement,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995, pp. 90–102; and Chalmers Johnson and E. B. Keehn, “The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy,” ibid., pp. 103–115.
  • 1994 . Korea and the World; Beyond the Cold War Boulder : Westview Press . For an overview of ROK diplomacy toward the PRC, see Lee Hong-yung, “China and the Two Koreas: A New Emerging Triangle,” in Kihl Young Whan, editor, (and Wang Fei-ling, “Chinese Security Policy in Northeast Asia,” in Kwak Tae-hwan and Edward A. Olsen, editors, The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996).
  • From a Korean perspective it is more than just “conceivable,” witness Seoul's development of a 360-degree defense strategy, Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, January 23, 1995, p. 9; and Korea Herald, May 7, 1994, p. 3.
  • For insights into how South Koreans may expect Koreas' future strategic environment to develop, see Rhee Sang-woo, “New Defense Posture for Next Century,” Korea Focus, March-April 1995, pp. 59–69; and Park Yong-ok, “Korea's Defense for the 21st Century,” Korea and World Affairs, Spring 1996, pp. 22–35.
  • 1990 . Korean Sea Power and The Pacific Era Seoul : Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University . Korea's prospective naval and maritime roles are assessed in Kim Dalchoong and Cho Doug-woon, editors, (Kim Dalchoong, Park Choon-ho, Lee Seo-hang, and Paik Jin-hyun, editors, Exploring Maritime Cooperation in Northeast Asia; Possibility and Prospects (Seoul: Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University, 1993); and Lee Choon-kun, editor, Sea Power and Korea in the 21st Century (Seoul: The Sejong Institute, 1994).
  • These costs have been estimated at between $200 billion and $2 trillion, Korea Herald, June 29, 1996, p. 1.
  • Some South Koreans already advocate greater defense autonomy versus the United States; see Lee Hyock-sup and Reinhard Drifte, “The Internationalization of the Korean Security Issue: A Way Forward?,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Winter 1995, pp. 167–192; and Kim Woo-sang, “Korea's Security Strategy For The 21st Century,” in Kwak Tae-hwan and Thomas L. Wilborn, editors, The US-ROK Alliance in Transition (Seoul: The Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1996).
  • 1992 . Korea and Russia: Toward the 21st Century Seoul : The Sejong Institute . For assessments of post-Cold War Korean-Russian relations and prospects, see Chung 11-yung, editor, (
  • 1979 . America's Dilemma in Asia: The Case of South Korea Chicago : Nelson-Hall . For analyses of past Korean resentment of US policy toward Korea, see Harold Hakwon Sunoo, (Dong Wonmo, editor, Korean-American Relations at Crossroads (Princeton Junction: The Association of Korean Christian Scholars in North America, 1982); Lee Manwoo, Ronald D. McLaurin, and Moon Chung-in, editors, Alliance Under Tension; The Evolution of South Korean-US Relations (Boulder/Seoul: Westview Press and Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1988); Doug Bandow and Ted Galen Carpenter, The US-South Korean Alliance: Time for a Change (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992); and Lee Manwoo, editor, Current Issues in Korean-US Relations: Korean- American Dialogue (Seoul: Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1993).
  • Han is defined in the New World Comprehensive Korean-English Dictionary, pp. 2232, as holding “a bitter grudge,” being “full of rancor,” that one cannot resolve and which leads one to cherish and nurse an attitude of resentment against those who inflicted the damaging act.
  • 1995 . Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century Princeton : Princeton University Press . For the pros and cons of US disengagement from a leading role, see Eric A. Nordlinger, (and Joshua Muravchik, The Imperative of American Leadership: A Challenge to Neo-Isolationism (Washington: AEI Press, 1996).
  • Lilley , James R. 1996 . “'Crossing the River by Feeling One's Way along the Bottom, Stone by Stone': China's Greater China Strategy,” . In Greater China and US Foreign Policy Edited by: Metzger , Thomas A. and Myers , Ramon H. 29 Stanford : Hoover Institution Press .

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