Recent Books

US-China Relations and Korean Unification: KINU Unification Forum 2011

Edited by Choi Jinwook; Korea Institute for National Unification: 265 pp., 12,000 won

The Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) has published a second book as part of a four-year project (2010-2013) to propose a grand plan for the unification of the two Koreas.

This volume is a fruition of related forums that have invited diplomats, experts on North Korea and other specialists to share views, visions and policy suggestions. As much as this year’s events have focused on U.S.-China relations and their implications for Korean unification, the book features general papers and forum papers on the topic.

Choi Jin-ook, director of the project and KINU’s Center of North Korean Studies, suggests a four-stage process unification and an overview of the changing unification environment.

Also included are views of John S. Park (U.S. Institute of Peace), Lowell Dittmer, (University of California, Berkeley), Wang Fei-ling (Georgia Institute of Technology), G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University) and David M. Lampton (Johns Hopkins University).

— LEE HYO-WON