Nearly half a century after the cessation of hostilities, the 1953 Armistice Agreement was not replaced by a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. While Russia and China withdrew their last troops in 1958, the United States maintains 37,000 troops in South Korea and has vowed to defend them using nuclear weapons.

At the end of the Korean game, Selig Harrison tops the first formal challenge to this long-term US policy. Harrison shows why North Korea - as many policymakers expect - is not about to collapse.

He explains why current US policies are hampering North-South reconciliation and reunification. Assessing North Korea's capabilities and the reasons for its widespread deployment, it outlines North Korea, South Korea and US arms control concessions necessary to mitigate the risks of confrontation, with a focus on US troop redeployments and US withdrawals. Against the North Korean withdrawal from the 38th parallel.

Similarly, he proposes specific trade-offs to thwart North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and rocket-launching systems, calling for the withdrawal of the US nuclear umbrella in conjunction with the nuclear disarmament agreements of China, Russia and Japan. He argues that the long-term goal of US policy must be the complete disengagement of US combat troops from Korea as part of regional agreements protecting the peninsula from all conventional and nuclear foreign powers.

A veteran journalist with decades of North Korea's extensive knowledge of the North and his long-standing ties with leaders in Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang, Harrison is ideally placed to present these arguments. All the time, he supports his analysis by revealing the accounts of the talks with the leaders of North Korea, South Korea and the United States over the past thirty-five years.

By combining the search for knowledge and written experience on the ground, the final book on US policy in Korea - past, present and future - provided us with the final book.

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