Crisis on the Korean peninsula : how to deal with a nuclear North Korea / Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki.

Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Defusing the crisis -- Ch. 1. The hermit kingdom -- Ch. 2. The crux of the confrontation -- Ch. 3. The "grand bargain" -- Ch. 4. Turning swords into plows -- Ch. 5. Fixing a failed economy -- Ch. 6. A new alliance -- App. 1. Modeling an attempted North Korean breakthrough -- App. 2. Agreed framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- App. 3. Excerpts from the national security strategy of the United States of America, September 2002.

"A Brookings Institution book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-220) and index.

"In Crisis on the Korean Peninsula, foreign policy scholars and opinion leaders Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki introduce a broad and ambitious program designed to answer - once and for all - the stubborn North Korean question. Detailing a "grand bargain" by which the United States and its allies could defuse North Korea's military threat without resorting to Iraq-style war, this examination outlines a step-by-step process that would: address the nuclear weapons issue that so clouds North Korea's present and future global status and northeast Asia's security; reduce conventional military forces, begin to rebuild the nation's shattered economy, and solve its ongoing humanitarian crisis; and provide face-saving and nerve-calming security assurances to North Korea's embattled leaders, who show signs they might welcome such pledges."--BOOK JACKET.