Getting to Yes in KoreaPresident George W. Bush had pinned North Korea to an "axis of evil" but then neglected Pyongyang until it tested a nuclear device. Would the new administration make similar mistakes? When the Clinton White House prepared to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities, private citizen Jimmy Carter mediated to avert war and set the stage for a deal freezing North Korea's plutonium production. The 1994 Agreed Framework collapsed after eight years, but when Pyongyang went critical, the negotiations got serious. Each time the parties advanced one or two steps, however, their advance seemed to spawn one or two steps backward. Clemens distils lessons from U.S. negotiations with North Korea, Russia, China, and Libya and analyses how they do-and do not-apply to six-party and bilateral talks with North Korea in a new political era. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 How Korea Became Korea | 14 |
3 How Korea Became Japan | 36 |
4 How One Korea Became Two | 51 |
5 How North Korea Got the Bomb | 70 |
6 How Kissinger and Zhou Enlai Got to Yes | 88 |
7 How to Get to Yes across Cultures | 103 |
8 How Carter and Clinton Got Closer to Yes with Pyongyang | 113 |
9 How Bush and Kim Jong Il Got to Deadlock | 132 |
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