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- Title
US Strategic Interests and Future Role in the Peaceful Unification of the Korean Peninsula.
- Authors
Terry, Sue Mi
- Abstract
The United States has tried numerous approaches to dealing with the North Korean threat in recent decades. Neither negotiations nor economic aid have weaned the North Korean state away from building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles or from ratcheting up tensions periodically with South Korea, Japan, and the United States to extract concessions from the West. All other policies having failed, it is incumbent on the United States to try the only policy with any conceivable chance of success: a policy of encouraging the peaceful demise of the North Korean regime followed by the unification of the Korean peninsula into a single democratic, free-market state. Admittedly US leverage to achieve this outcome is limited, but further sanctions on North Korea, especially on its finances, can help. So, too, would greater efforts both internationally and within North Korea to call attention to North Korean human rights abuses. The United States should also initiate a dialogue with Beijing over what a post-unification Korea will look like to make Chinese leaders more comfortable with that prospect and to wean them away from their policy of giving a blank check to Pyongyang. As a trump card, the United States can promise not to station its troops north of the present demilitarized zone (DMZ) in a unified Korea--or to withdraw its troops from the Korean Peninsula altogether--in order to win Chinese support for unification.
- Subjects
NORTH Korea; KOREAN reunification question (1945- ); SOUTH Korean foreign relations, 2002-; FOREIGN relations of the United States, 2009-2017; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
International Journal of Korean Studies, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
1091-2932
- Publication type
Article