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Title: Crisis on the Korean Peninsula : How to Deal With a Nuclear North Korea by Michael O'Hanlon, Mike M. Mochizuki ISBN: 0-07-143155-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting insightful proposal, but drawn out too long
Comment: While this argument offers an insightful proposal on dealing with N. Korea (backed up by a great deal of stats) it should have been an article not a book. The book begins to get very repetitive fast, and offers information for the purpose of backing the argument (Grand bargain offered to N. Korea). This is not a book to tell one about life in N. Korea, its past history, or details about its Leader and his "pleasure squad" and Japanese kidnappings. This is a policy proposal, a very well formulated one, to deal with N. Korea right now. The argument is stretched out to fit into book form, and gets redundant after some reading. An interesting perspective, but leaves one wanting for another book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A grand bargain for the hermit kingdom
Comment: There are few places in the world more dangerous than the Korean peninsula; yet after a decade of engagement with North Korea, the world is no closer to resolving this potentially disastrous stalemate. After the 1994 framework de facto broke down in 2002, all bets about how to deal with North Korea were off. The world had to start over.
America was not only focused on Iraq (thus putting on hold dealing with North Korea), but it also lacked any comprehensive plan for diffusing the crisis. The purpose of the "Crisis in the Korean Peninsula," by Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki, is to fill this gap and offer a broad strategy about what to do with North Korea.
The plan is both comprehensive and ambitious. In fact, ambition is its chief attraction; Mr. O'Hanlon and Mr. Mochizuki do not want to diffuse the crisis, they want to resolve it. That means offering North Korea an alternative future with more security and more prosperity. This "grand bargain" entails abandoning nuclear weapons, reducing conventional forces, obtaining security guarantees from America, reforming economically (modeled after China or Viet Nam), launching a dialogue on human rights, and returning Japanese kidnapped victims.
The big question, of course, is whether such a plan is realistic. The authors do their best to show that it is. America, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan can all benefit from stability and prosperity in the peninsula. What about North Korea? This is an enigma, but the authors' argument that Pyongyang might go for it is both persuasive and interesting.
When everything else has failed, there is little harm in changing course. But Mr. O'Hanlon and Mr. Mochizuki have produced a great vision from this dead end; this book is an incisive look into the history of the conflict with North Korea and a road map to solving it. At least, if this plan fails, the authors argue, the world will know for sure that there is no reform for North Korea--no carrots, just sticks. But their plan surely deserves a chance to work first.
Rating: 5
Summary: How to avoid nuclear war - read this book!
Comment: Michael O'Hanlon is one of the most brilliant and perceptive writers on strategic issues around today, as many of his many readers in the Los Angeles Times know well. Now pairing up with the other Mike at the Brookings, he does not disappoint his many fans with this superbly written new book. With North Korea there is no doubt about whether or not this rogue state possesses many weapons of lethal danger, nuclear being among them. But that means that to negotiate with a regime as dangerous as the North Korean takes endless tact and wisdom - failure could result in the deaths of millions of people. It is precisely such wisdom that the two Mikes of the Brookings provide us - so start praying now that their wisdom prevails, that the threat is dealt with peacefully and that war will not come to Asia, as many understandably fear. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan, 2003) and THE BALKANS IN WORLD WAR 2 (Palgrave, 2003)
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Title: Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies by Victor D. Cha, David C. Kang ISBN: 0231131283 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings ISBN: 156584873X Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Korea's Future and the Great Powers by Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Ellings ISBN: 0295981296 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior by Scott Snyder ISBN: 1878379941 Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Korean Endgame : A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement by Selig S. Harrison ISBN: 069109604X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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