... on Asian affairs and U.S. policy in Asia. The Missiles of North Korea How Real a Threat? SeligS. Harrison Returning from a presidential mission to United States lead to negotiations on limit­ North Korea in September 1999, former ing or ending its missile program. defense...

...John Feffer Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 John Feffer is a Pantech Fellow a t the Korea Studies Program a t Stanford University and the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories Press, 2 0 0 3 ) and Shock Waves...

...). This article is based on a year-long investigation that has taken him to Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Gas and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia Pipelines, Regional Stability, and the Korean Nuclear Crisis Selig S. Harrison The enormous potential of East...

...Robert M. Hathaway Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies , Cha Victor D. Kang David C. , New York : Columbia University Press , 2003 Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea , O’Hanlon Michael Mochizuki Mike , New York...

... for land; and bilateral treaties with Japan and maintaining our current alliances in a South Korea. The Central Treaty Organi­ post-Cold War world—and doubt their en­ zation (c e n t o )— formed by Britain, Iran, durance— are a minority and tend to be dis­ Turkey, Pakistan, and (until 1958, when...

... ad hoc coalitions with the Democratic Party as well. The and the freedom to use international insti­ troubled occupation of Iraq, together with tutions as it sees fit. the unfolding drama over the nuclear ambi­ The bipartisan consensus that has tions of Iran and North Korea, may eventu­...

... ing to an action plan calling for “the en­ cerns about the nuclear programs of Iraq, gagement as soon as appropriate of all the Iran, and North Korea raised fears of a ma­ nuclear-weapon States in the process leading jor new round of nuclear proliferation, that to the total elimination...

... was with the industri­ Taiwan, and South Korea all experienced alized democracies, especially the United varying degrees of economic stagnation.3 States, its security guarantor, and Japan, Given the growing intra-Asian trade then by far the dominant economic actor in linkages, weak central bank regulation, inef­...

..., the In­ its October 1997 report. ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in One of the most common failings of de­ Korea produced an optimistic evaluation of velopment economists and policymakers has South Korea’s near-term future. “The situa­ been their inability to distinguish between a tion...

... and Bush administra­ The companies that generate, transmit, tions elected to stress a highly implausible and distribute electricity are thought by threat to the territorial United States from many to be a more serious potential target. unfriendly regimes, notably North Korea...

.... The Gulag of the Unreviewed The postbag brings a copy of Korean Endgame by Selig Harrison, a onetime Washington Post foreign correspondent and a justly respected authority on Asian nationalism, in all its var­ ied hues. No American writer knows more about North Korea, the hermetic country whose...

..., I talked about the third neighbor being the rest of the world. And the foreign minister said, ‘no it’s not the rest of the world, it’s our fellow democracies.’ So he talked about Korea, Japan, India, Europe, and the United States. The first overseas visit made by President Elbegdorj was actually...

...-winter until well after 10 a.m. Not synchronizing clocks can also be an act of defiance. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (in the 1970s in Iran) and Kim Jong Un (in 2015 in North Korea) both set their time zones half an hour off the rest of the world as a symbolic way of isolating their regimes not only spatially...

... population having grown up in peacetime, war is a remote notion. But just as curiously remote is the kind of peace that needs to be deliberated on or even fought for. Changing conditions—primarily in the forms of ascending China and nuclear North Korea—should make it necessary for Japan to examine what kind...

...: the poor in the crisis that developed into a more generalized debtor countries were shafted. However, this economic crisis, at least for Indonesia, Thai­ time the problem was caused not by the land, and South Korea, the three most se­ banks themselves but by the IMF bailouts...

... sources for some 40 percent of its crude Taiwan will continue to be an issue in oil requirements, a number that is expected Sino-American relations, but it is Iraq, Iran, to rise to as much as 75 percent by 2025.28 and North Korea that should provide the But while China may be suffering...

... under the bases-for-protec- Northeast Asia. Few were willing to go it tion formula that served as the cornerstone alone against an unfriendly China, a suspi­ of the Security Treaty.5 American frustration cious South Korea, an estranged Russia, and grew during the 1980s, inflamed by trade...

... will need a seat at the table; China, for example, will not accept a subordinate relationship to the U.S. While countries such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea remain U.S. allies, perceptions of security threats vary depending on their geographic location and economic interests. Europeans do not perceive...

... region contains the majority of the world’s population and has borders between some 40 countries. But it also has the widest gap in telecommunications development. South Korea is at the top; Papua New Guinea near the bottom, all the way at 142nd out of 155 countries, according to the International...