Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea

by Joel S. Wit and Paul B. Stares

North Korea poses difficult challenges for the United States. The full extent of the North Korean nuclear arsenal is unknown; tens of thousands of U.S. forces are deployed on the Korean peninsula in support of U.S. commitments to South Korea; and the peninsula sits in a strategically vital region, where the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea all have important interests at stake. And the Kim Jong-Il government is perhaps the worlds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876094264
• ISBN13: 9780876094266
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.0" x 6.0"