China and East Asia: April 2003

North Korea: The Sequel

By: Bruce Cumings

Description: The current crisis with North Korea "has the same solution as the original [in 1994]: get North Korea's nuclear program mothballed and its medium- and long-range missiles decommissioned by buying them out at a set price. That price is American recognition of North Korea, written promises not to target the North with nuclear weapons, and indirect compensation in the form of aid and investment."

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