US Policy Planning towards Korean Unification: A New Approach
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Unification is the fundamental policy issue for in both North and South Korea. Although American specialists in Korean affairs recognize the importance of this issue, US policy planning for unification and for dealing with a reunified Korea is replete with inadequacies. Planning for US policy could be improved by creating a US Center for Korean Unification Studies to examine the pros and cons of various options and be an instrument for an expanded dialogue between Americans and Koreans from both Koreas. While the United States should develop such a scholarly policy Center on its own, given its track record, it probably will not. Therefore it is the interest of Koreans in both Koreas to back the creation of such a Center and become active participants in the activities of the proposed Center research, conferences, and publications. This is particularly salient for South Korea’s many unification-oriented organizations because of the way such a Center would greatly expand US-DPRK interactions in a manner that would benefit the ROK’s stake in the inter-Korean negotiations process.
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Unification is the fundamental policy issue for in both North and South Korea. Although American specialists in Korean affairs recognize the importance of this issue, US policy planning for unification and for dealing with a reunified Korea is replete with inadequacies. Planning for US policy could be improved by creating a US Center for Korean Unification Studies to examine the pros and cons of various options and be an instrument for an expanded dialogue between Americans and Koreans from both Koreas. While the United States should develop such a scholarly policy Center on its own, given its track record, it probably will not. Therefore it is the interest of Koreans in both Koreas to back the creation of such a Center and become active participants in the activities of the proposed Center research, conferences, and publications. This is particularly salient for South Korea’s many unification-oriented organizations because of the way such a Center would greatly expand US-DPRK interactions in a manner that would benefit the ROK’s stake in the inter-Korean negotiations process.