Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff

by Shepherd Iverson

Overview

"This book is a 'must read' for policy makers as well as political scientists who need imagination, innovative ideas, and rigorous logic in resolving North Korean nuclear issues and reunifying two Koreas. --Dr. Hyug Baeg Im, Advisor to three Korean Presidents Korea University"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462919178
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Series:	None
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Shepherd Iverson is a professor at Inha University in Incheon, Korea, where he has lived with his family for the past eight years. He is also the author of One Korea: A Proposal for Peace (2013).

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction 13

Part 1 Unity

Chapter 1 Incentives Can Reunify Korea 22

Chapter 2 The Reunification Investment Fund 36

Chapter 3 Culture-Ready for Reunification 53

Chapter 4 Investing in a Peaceful World Order 72

Part 2 Chaos

Chapter 5 Growing Danger in East Asia 94

Chapter 6 North Korea Collapse Scenario 121

Chapter 7 Hostile Surrogates 135

Chapter 8 Nuclear Japan or Unified Korea 153

Part 3 Choice

Chapter 9 US-China Strategic Cooperation or Security Competition 178

Chapter 10 Review: Unify Korea Now 217

Epilogue 231

Acknowledgments 236

References 244

Index 248

Tables

Table 1 Reunification Investment Fund Payments 38

Table 2 Anti-War-Game Players 48

Table 3 East Asian Military Expenditures (2015) 87

Table 4 Savings in Northeast Asia (2015) 89

Maps

Map 1 New Chinese Border 127

Map 2 North Korea Missile Ranae 137

Map 3 South China Sea 187

Figures

Figure 1 Reunification Investment Fund Financial Flow Chart 29

Figure 2 China-North Korea Trade Volume (billions) 139

Figure 3 International Weapons Supply Chain 147

Figure 4 Algorithm for Conflict or Reunification 172

Figure 5 Fiery Cross Reef (Sept 2015) 189

Editorial Reviews

"…it is time to start thinking outside the box, and Shepherd Iverson's book proposes one of the new innovative approaches which should be given a thought." —Dr. Andrei Lankov, North Korea Specialist, Kookmin University

"Now comes the most interesting 'peaceful regime change' formula of all: Make members of the North Korean elite millionaires. Buy them out!" —Straits Times

"Moves to 'buy out' North Korea's elite — and offer Kim and his ruling family immunity — would avoid the need for a bloody conflict at a time when the country's relationship with the US and South Korea is threatening to boil over" —NK News

"Iverson suggests each general gets $1 million to depose Kim, lesser officers up to $100,000, and all citizens double their income (full price tag: $175 billion). Sound crazy? Well, was the Marshall Plan crazy? Think of it as a kind of poetic justice. And safer than the alternatives." —Boston Globe

"Overall, this is an imaginative and forceful book." —The Journal of American-East Asian Relations

"In a new book, Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff, Shepherd Iverson of Inha Universityin Seoul proposes bribing North Korean civilian and military leaders to abandon Kim through a 'Reunification Investment Fund' of $175 billion." —Asia Times

"…every peace loving person—diplomats, politicians, journalists, students, and general public should read this book. In addition, every library should have a copy of this book for their patrons. —Suk Hi Kim, the Founding Editor of North Korean Review

"At the core of Iverson's proposal to Stop North Korea is an 'unorthodox,' albeit highly intriguing, $175 billion Reunification Investment Fund, designed to pay-for-peace by disbursing financial incentives to every North Korean" —Smithsonian Asia Pacific American Center

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