| Description |
218 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The Korean conundrum : America's troubled relations with North and South Korea / Ted Galen Carpenter and Doug Bandow. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Growing Tensions with both North and South Korea -- The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Then and Now -- Options for Dealing with North Korea -- South Korea as a Security Free Rider -- Time for an Amicable Divorce -- Forging a New U.S. Strategy in East Asia -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Nuclear weapons Korea (North)Korea Military relations United States, United States Military relations Korea, United States Military policy |
| Summary |
"For over fifty years one of America's key security commitments has been to protect South Korea from North Korea. A product of happenstance brought on by the end of World War II and frozen in time by the Cold War, the division of the peninsula once played a key role in America's containment of global communism. Now, over ten years after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of communism as a serious threat to liberal democracy, the tensions between the two Koreas are a problem from another era. With two heavily armed opponents, North Korea's nuclear pretensions, and a sizeable contingent of U.S. forces added to the mix, Korea remains an unstable and dangerous flashpoint." |
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"The United States seems to be heading directly toward a confrontation with North Korea, as Koreans in the South and nations around the world anxiously witness mounting tension. Carpenter and Bandow take a look at the twin crises now afflicting U.S. policy in East Asia : the reemergence of North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the growing anti-American sentiment in South Korea. They question whether Washington's East Asia security strategy makes sense with American forces spread thin with the Iraq war and with the looming prospect of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea becoming nuclear hostages. Carpenter and Bandow put forth the most provocative solution yet to this gnarled and dangerous situation."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
United States |
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Korea, South |
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Korea, North |
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Nuclear weapons |
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International defence relations |
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Foreign policy |
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Foreign opinion |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- Korea (North)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Military relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140380 -- Korea.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109033
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United States -- Military relations -- Korea (South)
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100165
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United States -- Military relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140380 -- Korea (North)
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81074720
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United States -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
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Korea http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073008 -- Military relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006409 -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
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| Author |
Bandow, Doug.
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| LC no. |
2004043460 |
| ISBN |
1403965455 |
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