Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies
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Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2011About Joint U.S. Korea Academic Studies
For over twenty years, KEI has sponsored annual major academic symposiums at universities across the country and major academic conferences. Each year, papers are specially commissioned to fit panel topics of current policy relevance to the U.S.-ROK alliance and implications for the Korean peninsula. Following the symposium, KEI edits and publishes those papers in an annual volume entitled “Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies.”
Author: Charles K. Armstrong
Region: Asia
Theme: Foreign Relations, Security
Location: Korea, North, Korea, South, United States of America
Published February 15, 2012
Download PDFThe six-party talks have been hindered by political shifts in the states involved, and especially by changing levels of support for the talks in Washington and Seoul. But the talks remain the primary forum for resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and for negotiation between North Korea and the other countries with the most direct stake in peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. Al- though the six-party process is far from perfect, the alternatives appear to be worse.