korean unification studies

Source materials

• Institute for East Asian Studies, Foreign policy for peace and unification, Seoul, 1975.
• Kim, Dae-Jung (Translated by Rhee Tong-Chin), Kim Dae-Jung’s three stage approach to Korean unification: focusing on the North-South confederal stage, Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1997
• Kim, Il-Sung, For the Independent, peaceful reunification of the country, University Press of the Pacific, Pyongyang, 2003.
• Kim, Il-Sung, Selected Works Vol V, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, 1972.
• Kim, Il-Sung, With the century: reminiscences, Foreign Language Publishing House, Pyongyang, 1992-1995.
• Kim, Se-jin (ed.), Korean unification: Source materials with an introduction, Research Center for Peace and Unification, Seoul, 1976.
• Park, Chung-Hee, Toward peaceful unification : selected speeches, Kwangmyong Publishing, Seoul, 1976.
• Son, Key-Young, South Korean Engagement Policies And North Korea: Identities, Norms And The Sunshine Policy (Politics in Asia Series), Routledge, New York, 2006.
• Suh, Dae-Sook, Documents of Korean communism, 1918-1948 (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University), Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1970.

North-South unification studies

• Kamil Akramov and Charles Wolf, North Korean Paradoxes: Circumstances, Costs, And Consequences of Korean Unification, Rand, Santa Monica, 2005.
• Choi, Jinwook and Park Sun-Song, The making of a unified Korea: policies, positions, and proposals, Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), Seoul, 1997.
• Eberstadt, Nicholas, Korea Approaches Reunification, M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 1995.
• Flassbeck, H and Horn, GH (eds), German Unification – An Example for Korea?, Dathmouth Publishing, Brookfield, 1996.
• Gordenker, Leon The United Nations and the Peaceful Unification of Korea. The Politics of Field Operations, 1947-1950, Martimus Nighoff, the Hague, 1959.
• Grinker, R, Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War, MacMillam, Basingstroke, 2000.
• Kang, Young Hoon and Yim Yong-soon (eds.), Politics of Korean unification, Research Center for Peace and Unification, Seoul, 1977.
• Kim Hak-Joon, Wither path for the two Koreas in the 21st century: war, peace or unification, Jimoondang Publishing, Seoul, 1998.
• Kim, Se-jin, Problems of Korean unification, Research Center for Peace and Unification, Seoul, 1976.
• Kim, Young C. and Halpern, Abraham M.(eds.), Future of the Korean Peninsula (Praeger special studies in international politics and government), Praeger Publishing, New York, 1977.
• Kim, Yun and Eui Hang Shin (eds.), Toward unified Korea: social, economic, political, and cultural impacts of the reunification of North and South Korea, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1995.
• Levin, N. D., The shape of South Korea’s future: South Korean attitudes towards unification and long-term security issues, Rand, Santa Monica, 1999.
• Moon Chung-In and Steinberg, DI (eds), Kim Dae-jung Government and Sunshine Policy: Promises and Challenges, Yonsei University Press, Seoul, 1999.
• Pfennig, Werner (ed), United we stand, divided we are: Comparative views on Germany and Korea in the 1990s, Abera Academic Press, Hamburg, 1997.
• Rhee Yong-Pil (Ed), Complexity of Korean unification process: systems approach, Seoul National University Press, Seoul, 1998.
• Yang Un-Chul, The political economy of Korean unification: agenda preparation, Sejong Institute, Seoul, 1998.

Comparative studies of North and South Korea

• Gills, Barry, Korea versus Korea: A Case of Contested Legitimacy (Politics in Asia Series), Rutledge Publishing, New York, 1996.
• Hwang, Eui-gak, The Korean Economies: A Comparison of North and South, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994.
• Kim, Ilpyong (ed.), Two Koreas in Transition: Implications for U.S. Policy, Washington Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1998.
• Koh, Byung Chul, Foreign Policy Systems of North and South Korea, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1984.
• Lee, Suck-Ho, Party-military relations in North Korea: A comparative analysis, Research Center for Peace and Unification, Seoul, 1989.
• Williams, Phil et al. (eds.), Security in Korea: War, Stalemate, and Negotiation (Ridgway Series in International Security Studies), Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1994.
• Yang, Sung Cul, The North and South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1994.

Role of third countries in Korean unification

• Dujarric, Robert, Korean unification and after: the challenge for US strategy, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, 2000.
• Dujarric, Robert (Ed.), Korea: security pivot in Northeast Asia, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, 1998.
• Eberstadt, Nicholas, The End of North Korea, American Enterprise Institute Press, Washington, 1999.
• Hart-Landsberg, M, Division, reunification and US foreign policy, Monthly Review Press, 1998.
• Kim Il-Pyong (ed), The two Koreas in transition: implications for US policy, In-Depth Books, Rockville, 1998.
• Kwak, Tae-Hwan (ed), The four powers and Korean unification strategies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES), Kyungnam University, Seoul, 1997.
• Lee Chae-Jin, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006.
• Pollack, Jonathan and Lee, Chung-Min, Preparing for Korean Unification: Scenarios and Implications, RAND, Santa Monica, 2000.

Diplomatic processes and Korean unification

• Chun Yung-Woo, North Korea’s negotiating behavior: The case of nuclear weapons development (Institute reports), Columbia University Press, Columbia, 1994.
• Downs, Chuck, Over the Line : North Korea’s Negotiating Strategy, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 1999.
• Koh, Byung-Chul, Korea: Dynamics of Diplomacy and Unification (Monograph Series (Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies), No. 14.), Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont, 2001.
• Lewis, James B., Frontier contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, New York, 2003.
•  Kim, Eun-Young, A Cross-Cultural Reference of Business Practices in a New Korea, Quorum Books, Westport, 1996.
• Korea Herald, Pyongyang pingpong diplomacy: what achieved and not achieved, Korea Herald, Seoul, 1979.
• Saccone, Richard, Negotiating Your Way Through Korea, Hollym, Seoul, 2001.
• Saccone, Richard, To the brink and back: negotiating with North Korea, Hollym, Seoul, 2003.
• Snyder, Scott, Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, 1999.
• Uden, Martin, Times past in Korea: an illustrated collection of encounters, customs and daily life recorded by visitors, Korea Library (Taylor and Francis Group), London, 2003.
• Xia, Yafeng, Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949-1972, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2006.

Economic costs of unification

• Cheong Young-Rok (Ed.), International economic implications of Korean unification, (Korea Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP), Seoul, 1997.
• Noland, Marcus, Economic integration of the Korean peninsula, Special Report 10, Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, 1998.
• Noland, Marcus, The economics of Korean unification (Working paper series / Institute for International Economics), Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1997.

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