Through interviews, gives a behind-the-scenes look at negotiations to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Offering multiple perspectives on the second Korean nuclear crisis, provides a window of understanding on the historical, geopolitical, and security concerns at play on the peninsula since 2002, paying special attention to China's dealings with North Korea
Since the end of the Korean War, Northeast Asia has been at peace but held in a state of tension due to the seemingly permanent rivalry between the superpowers and their respective allies in the region.
The Korea-U.S. Forum in 1992 was a series of four talks presented by Korean and U.S. experts in their fields. Scholars, political leaders, business representatives, students, and media personnel attending the talks had the opportunity to exam- ine the issues presented in each session during an open question and answer forum following the talks
Kim Dae-jung is President of the Republic of Korea. He was elected to the presidency on 18 December 1997. He has received numerous awards and honours and been conferred many honorary degrees from universities in Korea, China, the USA and Russia. He has also published about forty books in Korean, as well as English and other languages. This text contains his speech at the Singapore lecture on 27…
Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volu…
The contens of this book: PART I Existing Security Dilemmas in Korea 1. The Emergence of Antagonistic Identities 2. The Persistence of Cold War Antagonisms 3. The Geopolitical Production of Danger PART II Alternative Security Arrangements for Korea 4. Toward an Ethics of Dialogue 5. Dilemmas of Engagement 6. Toward an Ethics of Difference