Two Koreas : Contemporary History-Updated

1 Where the Wild Birds Sing

The Emergence of Two Koreas
War and Its Aftermath
The Origins of Negotiation
Kim Il Sung
Conversations with the South

2 The End of the Beginning

Park Chung Hee
Washington Blinks at Park's Coup
The Impact of Yushin

3 The Trouble Deepens

The Struggle with Japan
The Underground War
Challenge from the North
Echoes of Saigon
The South Korean Nuclear Weapons Program
Murder in the Demilitarized Zone

4 The Carter Chill

Carter's Withdrawal: Origins and Implementation
The View from Pyongyang
End of the Carter Withdrawal

5 Assassination and Aftermath

The Coming of Chun Doo Hwan
The Kwangju Uprising
The Fight to Save Kim Dae Jung

6 Terror and Talk

The Negotiating Track
Floods and Face-to-Face Talks
Kim Il Sung and the Soviet Connection

7 The Battle for Democracy in Seoul

Chun's Succession Struggle
The Election of 1987

8 The Great Olympic Coming-Out Party

The Coming of the Olympics
The Bombing of Kal Flight 858
The Rise of Nordpolitik
Washington Launches a Modest Initiative

9 Moscow Switches Sides

The Roots of Change
Gorbachev Meets Roh
The Shevardnadze Mission
"How Long Will the Red Flag Fly?"
Soviet-South Korean Economic Negotiations

10 China Shifts Its Ground

A Visit to North Korea
China Changes Course

11 Joining the Nuclear Issue

The Origins of the Nuclear Program
Nuclear Diplomacy: The American Weapons
The December Accords
Meeting in New York
The Coming of the Inspectors
From Accommodation to Crisis

12 Withdrawal and Engagement

The Light-Water Reactor Plan
Kim Young Sam Blows the Whistle
The Season of Crisis Begins

13 Showdown over Nuclear Weapons

The Defueling Crisis
The Military Track
The Deepening Conflict
Carter in Pyongyang

14 Death and Accord

The Succession of Kim Jong Il
The Framework Negotiations
The Kim Jong Il Regime
The Struggle over the Reactors

15 North Korea in Crisis

Political Earthquake in Seoul
Summit Diplomacy and the Four-Party Proposal
The Submarine Incursion
North Korea's Steep Decline
The Passage of Hwang Jang Yop
The Two Koreas in Time of Trouble

16 Turn Toward Engagement

Into the Heavens, under the Earth
Toward an Aid-Based State
Perry to the Rescue
Toward the June Summit
Summit in Pyongyang
Engaging the United States
Afterword
Principal Korean Figures in the Text