Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation

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125 Notes PREFACE 1. For reasons of accessibility I am using the somewhat colloquial terms South Korea and North Korea, rather than the official names of the respective states: Republic of Korea and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 2. Doug Struck, “North Korean Threat Erodes Japan’s Pacifism,” Guardian Weekly, February 20, 2003, 28. 3. The most recent contributions are Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003); Selig S. Harrison, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003); and Bruce Cumings, North Korea: The Hermit Kingdom (New York: New Press, 2003). 4. I am referring, of course, to Gertrude Stein’s famous pronouncement: “A rose is a rose is a rose.” See Stein, “Sacred Emily,” Geography and Plays (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), 178. 5. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. M. H. Heim (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 8. 6. Michael C. Williams and Keith Krause, preface to Keith Krause and Michael C. Williams, eds., Critical Security Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), xii. 7. Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals ,” in John A. Vasquez, ed., Classics of International Relations (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996), 327–37. 8. Cited in Gilles Deleuze, “What Is a Dispositif?” in Michel Foucault : Philosopher, ed. T. J. Armstrong (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf , 1992), 165. INTRODUCTION 1. William J. Perry, “The United States and the Future of East Asian Security,” in Woo Keun-Min, ed., Building Common Peace and Prosperity in Northeast Asia (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2000), 121. 2. James Dao, “Bush Administration Defends Its Approach to North Korea,” New York Times, July 7, 2003; Shane Green, “North Korea Warns Final Showdown with U.S. Will Be a Nuclear One,” Sydney Morning Herald , February 8, 2003. 3. Jang Si Young and Ahn Pyong-Seong, “Direction of Military Buildup and Defense Spending,” Korea Focus, November–December 2001, 85. 4. Chuck Downs, Over the Line: North Korea’s Negotiating Strategy (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1999), 282. 5. Moon Chung-in, Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1996), 9. 6. Gregory Henderson, Korea: The Politics of the Vortex (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968). 7. For an excellent analysis of identity and difference, focusing on South Korea, see Roy Richard Grinker, Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (London: Macmillan, 1998). 8. Fred C. Alford, Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999), 103–6. 9. Hazel Smith, “Bad, Mad, Sad or Rational Actor? Why the ‘Securitization ’ Paradigm Makes for Poor Policy Analysis of North Korea,” International Affairs 76, no. 3 (July 2000): 594–96; Bruce Cumings, Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Raleigh, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999). 10. Leon V. Sigal, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), 21. 11. Ibid., 207–28. 12. Cumings, Parallax Visions, 122. 13. Yuh Ji-Yeon. “Dangerous Communists, Inscrutable Orientals, Starving Masses,” Peace Review 22, no. 2 (June 1999): 317–24; Smith, “Bad, Mad, Sad or Rational Actor?” 606. Drawing attention to these representational practices is not to deny that mismanagement is chiefly responsible for the deplorable state of North Korea’s economy. Stressing the latter point is Marcus Noland, Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two 126฀ ฀ ·฀ ฀ notes฀to฀introduction Koreas (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 2000), 171–94. 14. Douglas Klusmeyer and Astri Suhrke, “Comprehending ‘Evil’: Challenges for Law and Policy,” Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002): 37; Roxanne L. Euben, “Killing (for) Politics: Jihad, Martyrdom, and Political Action,” Political Theory 30, no. 1 (February 2002): 4. 15. Smith, “Bad, Mad, Sad or Rational Actor?” 593–94. 16. Lee Joon-Koo, “Reflections on Korean Unification Cost Studies,” in Kang Myoung-kyu and Helmut Wagner, eds., Germany and Korea: Lessons in Unification (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1995), 119. See also Nicholas Eberstadt, “South Korea’s Economic Crisis and the Prospects for North-South Relations,” Korea and World Affairs 22, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 541; Moon Chung-in and Hideshi Takesada, “North Korea: Institutionalized Military Intervention,” in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Coercion and Governance (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001), 357...