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Inter-Korean Relations

Problems and Prospects

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  • © 2004

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  1. Samuel S. Kim

    1. Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Managing the Korean Conflict

    • Samuel S. Kim
    Pages 1-20

  3. Inter-Korean Relations: A South Korean Perspective

    • Scott Snyder
    Pages 21-37

  4. Inter-Korean Relations: A North Korean Perspective

    • Charles K. Armstrong
    Pages 39-56

  5. Inter-Korean Economic Relations

    • Samuel S. Kim, Matthew S. Winters
    Pages 57-80

  6. China and Inter-Korean Relations: Beijing as Balancer

    • Andrew Scobell
    Pages 81-96

  7. Japan in Inter-Korean Relations

    • C. S. Eliot Kang
    Pages 97-116

  8. Russia in Inter-Korean Relations

    • Elizabeth Wishnick
    Pages 117-138

  9. The U.S. Role in Inter-Korean Relations: Container, Facilitator, or Impeder?

    • Victor D. Cha
    Pages 139-157

  10. The Legal and Institutional Approach to Inter-Korean Relations

    • Jeong-Ho Roh
    Pages 159-174

  11. International Organizations and the Inter-Korean Peace Process: Traditional Security Versus Nontraditional Security

    • Shin-wha Lee
    Pages 175-196

  12. The Challenges of Peacefully Reunifying the Korean Peninsula

    • Abraham Kim
    Pages 197-218

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 219-223
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About this book

In post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea. Fifteen years later, this has not happened, and June 2000 saw a summit making the warmest inter-Korean relations yet. Over that time period, the two Korean states found instead new mechanisms and methods for interacting with each other on the level of de facto if not yet completely de jure sovereign states and have begun to overcome some of the shadows cast by the partition and violent war that befell the peninsula following World War II. This book examines the origins, dynamics, and impacts of these multi-level relations between North and South Korea, situating them variously as two incomplete nation-states, as a single national entity, and within a larger international environment. The Contributors demonstrate how inter-Korean relations have fostered new forms of conflict management and reconciliation on the peninsula.

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"Korea could reunify when enough confidence is built between national and international elites to allow the union. This book is the best-documented treatment of such a possibility - and of its alternatives, most of which would sooner or later involve the U.S. and the city of Seoul in an unnecessary war. Everyone who is interested in East Asia or in peace must read this."

- Lynn T. White III, Princeton University "

"The volume represents one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date analyses of contemporary inter-Korean relations by top-notch Korean experts. Chapters in the volume are well organized, empirically penetrating, and rich in policy implications. Domestic, dyadic, regional, and international level factors are skillfully intergrated in accounting for the origins, dynamics, and implications of inter-Korean relations. This is the must reading for students, scholars, and policy-makers who are interested in Korea and Northeast Asia."

- Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

    Samuel S. Kim

About the editor

SAMUEL KIM is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the East Asia Institute, Columbia University, USA. He is author or editor of 17 books, including The North Korean System in the Post-Cold War Era.

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