Beyond the 'Axis of Evil:' What Price for a Nuclear- Free Korea?

IMGXYZ176IMGZYXSelig S. Harrison, author of Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement discussed:: Beyond the Axis of Evil: What Price for a Nuclear-Free Korea?

Harrison, a former Northeast Asia Bureau Chief of The Washington Post, served as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for 22 years. He is now a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy.

In Korean Endgame Harrison challenges U.S. policies that envision an indefinite U.S. military presence in Korea even after reunification. Harrison argues that the U.S. presence in its existing form impedes accommodation between North and South Korea and heightens the danger that North Korea will develop weapons of mass destruction, especially in the context of the Bush Administration's confrontational approach toward Pyongyang. He concludes that a nuclear-free Korea and the pullback of forward-deployed North Korean forces are possible, but only if the United States is prepared to pay a price: the full normalization of relations, economic aid centering on energy assistance and major changes in the U.S. conventional and nuclear force posture in Korea.

President Jimmy Carter has termed Korean Endgame "the best analysis I have seen of the difficult choices facing the United States in Korea."

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Additional Resources

• Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction (June 2002)
• Korean Peninsula Resource Page
• "U.S. Policy on North Korea: The View From Seoul" Proliferation Brief Volume 5, Number 6, 25 March 2002
• "What Is To Be Done With the Axis of Evil" Proliferation Brief Volume 5, Number 1, 2 February 2002