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Article: Seoul on ice: conservatives are talking about pulling out of South Korea. Big mistake.(book by Ted Galen Carpenter and Doug Bandow)(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 2005
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The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations With North and South Korea By Ted Galen Carpenter and Doug Bandow Palgrave Macmillan, $26.95
This book brings a welcome revolution to recent American scholarship about the Korean peninsula: It actually focuses on both North and South Korea. It's no surprise, of course, that most writers have chosen North Korea as their prime topic: That weird, dangerous state is simply a juicier subject, with its epic isolation, creepy and seemingly unpredictable Great Leader, Kim Jong Il, and alarming nuclear development programs. But America's relationship with Seoul--based for a half-century on a shared interest in having U.S. ...