| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 409 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A Century Foundation book
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Century Foundation book.
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| Note |
"A Century Foundation book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The paralysis of American policy -- Nationalism and the "permanent siege mentality" -- The Confucian legacy -- Reform by stealth -- Gold, oil, and the basket-case image -- Kim Jong Il and his successors -- Trading places -- Confederation or absorption? -- The United States and reunification -- Tripwire -- The United States and the military balance -- New opportunities for arms control -- Ending the Korean War -- The tar baby syndrome -- Guidelines for U.S. policy -- The U.S. nuclear challenge to North Korea -- The North Korean response -- The 1994 compromise : can it survive? -- Japan and nuclear weapons -- South Korea and nuclear weapons -- Guidelines for U.S. policy -- Will history repeat itself? -- Korea, Japan, and the United States -- Korea, China, and the United States -- Korea, Russia, and the United States -- Then and now : the case for a neutral Korea. |
| Summary |
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. foce redeployments and U.S. withdrawals in return for North Korean pullbacks from the thirty-eighth parallel. |
| Awards |
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2002. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Korean reunification question (1945- ) |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (North)
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United States. |
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International relations. |
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Korea (North) |
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Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Military relations -- Korea (South)
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Military relations. |
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Korea (South) |
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Korea (South) -- Military relations -- United States.
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East Asia -- Strategic aspects.
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East Asia. |
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Korean reunification question (1945- )
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Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- Korea (South)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harrison, Selig S. Korean endgame. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 069109604X 9780691096049 (DLC) 2001055186 (OCoLC)48176715 |
| ISBN |
9781400824915 (electronic book) |
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1400824915 (electronic book) |
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1400814332 (electronic book) |
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9781400814336 (electronic book) |
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9780691116266 |
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0691116261 (Trade Paper) |
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069109604X |
| Standard No. |
9780691116266 |
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