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Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies

Victor D. Cha

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Description for Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies Paperback. Aims to uncover the inherent logic of the politics of the Korean peninsula. The authors look at the implications of a nuclear North Korea for East Asia and US homeland security, assessing historical US policy, and provide a framework for constructive policy that should be followed by the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMC; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political punditry and often misleading sound bites. Victor Cha and David Kang step back from the daily newspaper coverage and cable news commentary and offer a reasoned, rational, and logical debate on the nature of the North Korean regime. Coming to the issues ... Read more

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2005

Publisher

Columbia University Press United States

Number of pages

280

Condition

New

Number of Pages

280

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780231131292

SKU

V9780231131292

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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

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99-1

About Victor D. Cha

Victor D. Cha is associate professor of government and D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is the author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle, which won the 2000 Ohira Book Prize. David C. Kang is an associate professor in the department of government and an adjunct associate professor at ... Read more

Reviews for Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies

This timely and important book is free of much of the hyperbole that has fettered a more concise course of action for dealing with North Korea. The book not only fills the current scholarly and policy gap with a clear-cut analysis of the policy challenges facing the United States and its allies, but also offers a thorough and provocative assessment ... Read morefor what policies to pursue. Korea Times [Nuclear North Korea] aims to shed fresh light on two of our biggest areas of ignorance: what motivates Pyongyang's extreme hostility to the outside world, and how best to part it from its claimed nuclear 'deterrent'... Msssrs Cha and Kang debate tough versus tender engagement in alternating chapters. Economist Nuclear North Korea provides a penetrating analysis of what is probably the world's most dangerous trouble spot.
Gordon G. Chang Asian Review of Books Victor Cha and David Kang have joined forces to bring us a remarkable and sound presentation of two different strategies on how to deal with a nuclear North Korea. One of the most valuable aspects of their book lies in its composition- a running dialogue and critique of each other's strategy, presented in alternating chapters and culminating in a combined effort in the last two chapters of the book. The refreshing and honest internal evaluation that accompanies solid academic writing makes this work stand out.
Charles L. Pritchard Survival While both authors believe that engagement represents the only rational policy for the United States, they arrive at this conclusion along very different paths. In individually authored alternating chapters Cha and Kang offer differing assessments of the threat posed by the DPRK and the extent to which Pyongyang can be induced to join respectable international society. In the process, they explicitly take issue with each other and engage in something of a public debate on the merits, requirements, and prospects of engagement.
Robert M. Hathaway World Policy Journal [T]his book is required reading for anyone who wants a deeper appreciation of what is surely one of the most pressing issues in the post-September 11 world.
Nicholas Khoo International Affairs It is a slow and thoughtful read, navigating past the existing U.S. policymaking, the current media hyperboles, and the politically motivated punditry.
Bill Drucker Korean Quarterly Their book is important. Dealing with North Korea will be one of the central challenges for the U.S. in the coming years.
Nicholas Kristof New York Review of Books Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang take a step away from emotion-laden debates about North Korea to offer a cool-headed, reasoned, and rational debate on the nature of the North Korean threat and the best policies for dealing with it. Journal of Asian Studies Cha and Kang wrestle with that policy context in their crisp, smart book.
Michael O'Hanlon Chronicle of Higher Education This book is good and extraordinary. It is a delight to read.
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