Korean Unification in a New Era

Korean Unification in a New Era

Author: Victor Cha

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1442240504

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In light of growing discussion about the future of the Korean peninsula, the CSIS Korea Chair held a major conference featuring senior-level policy and scholarly discussions on the topic of unification, and this report provides a record of that conference. It was a landmark event addressing economic, business, political, and security opportunities of unification, and it was cohosted with the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRCS) of the Republic of Korea and a consortium of other institutions.


Korean Unification and a New East Asian Order

Korean Unification and a New East Asian Order

Author: Korea Institute for National Unification (South Korea)

Publisher: 길잡이미디어

Published: 2013-02-27

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 8984796786

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The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) is working on a four-year project (2010-2013) on the subject of Korean unification. The objective of this project is to propose a grand plan for Korean unification. The Unification Forum series is one of the tasks of this project. In the first two years, the forums reviewed the positions of the neighboring countries on Korean unification (2010) and analyzed USChina relations and their implications for Korean unification (2011). The forums are also intended to serve as a channel to deliver our unification vision to the international community Ⅰ. Korean Unification: The Final Goal of North Korea Policy Searching for a Consistent North Korea Policy Ⅱ. China and Korean Unification Free Trade Agreements and Economic Aspects of Unification China-North Korea Relations in a New Era: Assessing Continuities and Changes Ⅲ. Korean Unification from an International Perspective Korean Unification: Benefits, Uncertainties, and Costs Korea as One: Pathways to Korean Unification and Regional Transformations Reunification of the Korean Peninsula: Will China Help? Russia, Two Koreas, and Unification Prospects


One Korea

One Korea

Author: Tae-Hwan Kwak

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1317085663

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On the Korean peninsula, there exist two sovereign states—the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)—both of whom hold separate membership at the United Nations. This book discusses the construction of "one Korea" and highlights the potential benefits of unification for the Koreans and the international community. Arguing that Korean unification is intrinsically international in nature, the authors outline how the process and outcome would impact upon the policies of the four major powers—the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan. In addition, the authors highlight the possible far-reaching repercussions of unification on the political and economic dynamics of Northeast Asia. Making a case for the two Koreas and interested powers to plan and orchestrate their acts for sustained peace and gradual unification on the Korean peninsula, this book examines the Korean question and the related issue of peace building in Northeast Asia from a global perspective. It will be of interest to students and scholars researching politics and international relations.


The Capitalist Unconscious

The Capitalist Unconscious

Author: Hyun Ok Park

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0231540515

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The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research in South Korea and China, The Capitalist Unconscious shows how the hegemonic democratic politics of the post-Cold War era (reparation, peace, and human rights) have consigned the rights of migrant laborers—protagonists of transnational Korea—to identity politics, constitutionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Park reveals the riveting capitalist logic of these politics, which underpins legal and policy debates, social activism, and media spectacle. While rethinking the historical trajectory of Cold War industrialism and its subsequent liberal path, this book also probes memories of such key events as the North Korean and Chinese revolutions, which are integral to migrants' reckoning with capitalist allures and communal possibilities. Casting capitalist democracy within an innovative framework of historical repetition, Park elucidates the form and content of the capitalist unconscious at different historical moments and dissolves the modern opposition among socialism, democracy, and dictatorship. The Capitalist Unconscious astutely explores the neoliberal present's past and introduces a compelling approach to the question of history and contemporaneity.


Preparing for Korean Unification

Preparing for Korean Unification

Author: Jonathan D. Pollack

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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This study examines four alternative scenarios that would result in the unification of the Korean peninsula. The authors describe the defining characteristics of each scenario, potential indicators that would predict specific outcomes, some possible variations in paths to unification, and some operational implications for the U.S. Army under different conditions and circumstances. The four scenarios (peaceful unification, collapse and absorption, unification through armed conflict, and disequilibrium and external intervention) highlight both the increasing vulnerabilities of the North Korean state and the substantial uncertainties that attach to each outcome and to the potential U.S. policy respones.


North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

Author: Sung Chull Kim

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1626164541

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North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un’s regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D. Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn their attention to how to deter a nuclear North Korea. The United States, South Korea, and Japan must also come to terms with the fact that North Korea will be able to deter them with its nuclear arsenal. How will the erratic Kim Jong-un behave when North Korea develops the capability to hit medium- and long-range targets with nuclear weapons? How will and should the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China respond, and what will this mean for regional stability in the short term and long term? The international group of authors in this volume address these questions and offer a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security.


Forging a New Era

Forging a New Era

Author: Korean Overseas Information Service

Publisher: Seoul, Korea : Korean Overseas Information Service

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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