Don Oberdorfer, Distinguished Journalist in Residence and adjunct professor of international relations at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, wrote: “The United States didn’t like the leaders of the Soviet Union — but we found ways to engage them. We didn’t like the Chinese in the era before the 1970s, but we found ways to engage them also. I believe that ways can be found to seriously engage the North Koreans, difficult as it might be. Whatever means are chosen to deal with it, the problem of nuclear weapons in the divided Korean peninsula is too dangerous to be left to fester.”

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I. Introduction Selig S. Harrison, who has visited North Korea nine times, most recently in April, and is the author of “Korean Endgame“, wrote: “For now the hard-liners are in charge in Pyongyang. Pending normalized relations, North Korea is unlikely to reduce its nuclear arsenal, if it actually has one, at any price or to […]

Policy Forum Online 05-41A: June 9th, 2005 Discussion of “U.S. Can’t Act Alone in North”   Joong-Ang Ilbo Editorial Copyright (c) 2005 Nautilus of America/The Nautilus Institute CONTENTS I. Introduction  II. Comments by Jeong Cp  III. Nautilus invites your responses Go to Joong-Ang Ilbo Editorial (May 17th, 2005)  Go to Policy Forum Online index   […]

L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director of the Mansfield Foundation, writes: “The U.S.-ROK alliance, however, was built on the foundation of a common nightmare, the threat from North Korea. How the two nations address that nightmare, and how the current crisis on the Peninsula is resolved, will ultimately determine what dreams Korea and the United States will share in the future.”