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Reports, Papers, and Essays by ASCK Members

When there are multiple authors, ASCK members are identified with an asterisk.

"Defusing the North Korean Nuclear Crisis." Dong-a Ilbo, June 19, 2003. [text]

"There is a growing sense among many Korea watchers in Washington that a serious confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington could come by the fall---before North Korea can finish reprocessing the 8000 spent fuel rods and before the American presidential election campaign kicks into high gear."

"North Korea: Hexagonal Headache." Asia Times, September 6, 2003. [text]

"The hardliners in Washington have made no secret of their distaste for negotiations with North Korea and so contrived to ensure that the six-party talks would fail. For instance, they made sure that the talks would not involve any negotiations. Negotiations require give and take, and despite rumors floated in the press about potential flexibility on a non-aggression pact or a package of economic incentives, there was no wiggle room in the US position in Beijing."

"The Fire Next Time." TomPaine.com, September 3, 2003. [text]
"Six Countries in Search of a Solution." Foreign Policy in Focus, August 26, 2003.  [text]
"Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang." Foreign Policy in Focus, July 2003.  [text] [pdf]
"Is North Korea Next?"  Foreign Policy in Focus, March 24, 2003.  [text] [pdf]
"South Korea Joins the 'Axis of Independence.' " Asia Times, April 15, 2003.  [text]
"The Time-Out Method Doesn't Work." Foreign Policy in Focus, March 24, 2003.  [text] [pdf]
"Responding to North Korea's Surprises." Foreign Policy in Focus, December 2002.  [text] [pdf]

"North Korea: 'Gigantic Change' and a Gigantic Chance." Policy Forum Online, Nautilus Institute, May 9, 2003. [text]

"Something remarkable is finally going on in terms of economic reforms in North Korea. This opens a narrow window of opportunity that shall not be missed."

"North Korea would pledge...to negotiate the verified dismantlement of all aspects of its nuclear capabilities.... [U]pon the successful conclusion of dismantlement, they would categorically rule out the use of force against each other thereafter. The United States would also pledge to respect North Korean sovereignty and not to hinder its economic development."

"Korea: Crisis and Opportunity." Against the Current, March/April 2003. [text]

"North Korea’s current demands are no different from what it was promised in 1994: normalization of relations and a guarantee that it will not be threatened with military attack by the U.S."

Panel discussion at the Japan Society, New York City, January 23, 2003. [text summary] [pdf]

"My real concern is what the current strategy has done for the United States. It appeals to the fundamentalist right wing craving designed to mobilize domestic support but it has limited America's strategic flexibility."

"U.S. Troops: Moving In, Moving Out." January 15, 2003. [text]

"The current tensions in the U.S.-Korea alliance have much to teach us about the stationing of our troops on foreign soil."

"A Vote for Anti-Americanism?" December 19, 2002. [text]

"Regarding South Koreans as democrats first and allies second and forgoing the easy label of anti-American is a prerequisite to more equal relations and stronger ties that endure."

"Over-Americanization of Korea and Under-Koreanization of America." [text]

"Anti-American sentiments are not solely reflections of Korea's relationship with the U.S. and the U.S. role in Korea. They are also about Korean sentiments toward other Koreans."

"Anti-Americanism? No, Democracy!" [text]

"The exercise of new rights and freedoms generally stops at the gates of the U.S. military compound. Most U.S. military activities are beyond the purview of Korean democracy because they are governed by the SOFA. This creates intense frustration for Korea's new democrats."

"Bush Administration Risks Second Korean War, Historian Warns." Address to UCLA Center for Korean Studies, April 18, 2003. [text]

"What I think the Bush administration's policy tends to do is create the second Korean war."

"Problems with Bush's North Korea Policy." February 8, 2003. [text]

"Bush has been demanding that if North Korea first reveals, dismantles, and destroys all nuclear weapons facilities past and present, then he might see fit to grant aid, but what self-respecting sovereign would give up its last line of defense on such a promise?  Would the U.S. have done so for the Soviet Union?"

"George W.'s Wrong-headed Approach to Korea." History News Network, February 7, 2003. [text]

"Trading one thing to get another is the very essence of diplomatic negotiation, and to agree to "talk" without agreeing to negotiate seriously indicates that the Bush administration has no intention of negotiating at all.... Instead of the U.S. acting as savior and protector of South Korean security, the U.S. under George Bush appears as South Korea's greatest threat."

"Anti-Americanism and realignment in the two Koreas." Radical Philosophy, May/June 2003. Issue 119. [text]

"For all their differences, the expressions of anti-Americanism that erupted this winter in South Korea and North Korea convey a common desire....[T]hey are symptoms of an aspiration for a new northeast Asian capitalist community, which the two Koreas and their neighbouring states have begun to envision for their collective future."

"Any new agreement...must avoid the deficiencies of the 1994 Agreed Framework.  It must be more verifiable, less readily reversible, more comprehensive, more politically defensible, and more enforceable through the involvment of North Korea's neighbors."

Well-Founded Fear: China Ignores International Law in its Treatment of North Korean Refugees. China Rights Forum, Summer/Fall 2000. [text]

"The latest exodus from North Korea began even before the famine. Around 1995 most migrants were reasonably well-nourished males. At that time China does not seem to have viewed them as a significant problem, and did little to stem the tide. But around 1998, the nature of the migrant population began to shift, with the majority now comprised of women and children, often under-nourished."

Meredith Woo-Cumings, University of Michigan

"The Political Ecology of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe and Its Lessons." December 7, 2001. [pdf]

"The famine in isolated North Korea was part and parcel of a global ecological disaster, happening with greater frequency as the result of the global warming. A North Korea never wanting to join the world---or only to do so on its own terms---and which went an extraordinary length to remain as autarkic as possible, ended up being realy wiped out in a global ecological disaster. A capricious climate, then, became a sad reminder that North Korea lives in the same world climate that we all do."

Related reports, papers, and essays

"A Deal That Worked." New York Times, April 26, 2003. [text] [pdf]

"Not Engaging North Korea is Like Handing It a Loaded Weapon." Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2003. [text]

"Q&A: Should U.S. Launch Direct Talks with N. Korea?" New York Times, March 10, 2003. [text]

Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the US Senate, February 4, 2003. [text]

"Beyond the Axis of Evil: What Price for a Nuclear-Free Korea?"  Remarks delivered at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Non-Proliferation Project Roundtable.  May 10, 2002. [pdf]

"North Korea Nuclear Proposal in New Wilson Center Study."  Outline of proposal to resolve the nuclear crisis and further regional energy cooperation in Northeast Asia.  [text]

"North Korea's Negotiating Tactics and Nuclear Strategy." Nautilus Institute Special Report, April 18, 2003. [text]

"Military-First Ideology Is an Ever-Victorious, Invincible Banner for Our Era's Cause of Independence." Nautilus Institute Special Report, April 11, 2003. [text]

"Bush Doctrine Flunks Test on North Korea." Boston Globe, January 25, 2003. [text]

"How to Deal With North Korea." Foreign Affairs, March/April 2003. [text]

The DPRK Briefing Book. [text]

"The Nautilus Institute has created the DPRK Briefing Book to enrich debate and rectify the deficiencies in public knowledge. Our goal is that the DPRK Briefing Book becomes your reference of choice on the security dilemmas posed by North Korea and its relations with the United States. The DPRK Briefing Book is part of the Nautilus Institute's 'US-DPRK Next Steps: Avoiding Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear War in Korea' project."

"Standoff on the Korean Peninsula: Defusing North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions." Speech delivered at the Japan Society, New York City, January 23, 2003. [text summary] [pdf]

"Standoff on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia." Speech delivered at the Brookings Institution, January 24, 2003. [text summary] [pdf]

"Asia Expert Warns that Unless U.S. Deals Directly With N. Koreans, It Faces Choice of War or Nuclear-armed Pyongyang." Interview with Council on Foreign Relations, April 24, 2003. [text]