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Reducing Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
BOOK FORUMMonday, June 17, 2002
11:00 a.m.
Featuring Selig S. Harrison, Author, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement (Princeton, 2002); with comments by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
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Nearly half a century has elapsed since fighting ended on the Korean Peninsula. But the 1953 Armistice that put a stop to the hostilities has yet to be replaced by a permanent peace treaty, and the United States still maintains 37,000 troops in South Korea. In Korean Endgame, Selig S. Harrison, director of the Center for International Policy's Asia Program, mounts the first authoritative challenge to proposals that envisage a permanent U.S. military presence in Korea even after unification. He explains why the existing U.S. policy hampers North-South reconciliation and reunification, and shows how the United States can create conditions so its troops can finally come home. Harrison is among the handful of Americans who have traveled across 38 Parallel into North Korea. Cato Institute vice president Ted Galen Carpenter will provide comments.
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