<BODY><P>Aidan,</P>
<P> That Atlantic Monthly article caught my attention as well, but after reading it I wondered where the title had come from. The exercise it reports was by no means a "war game," as I understand the term -- no one "played" North Korea -- but simply a strategy brainstorming. <BR> And while it was certainly an interesting read, it might have been even more impressive had the author displayed a bit more familiarity with Korea, or had the Atlantic hired a fact checker. (Kim Jong Il is, of course, no more the "president" of NK -- that title still belonging to his late father, "for eternity" -- than the 38th parallel is the definition of the current DMZ.) <BR>
A more knowledgeable author might also have noted, among other things, how much the current ROK government and society differ in character from those of 1994, when Gallucci says he thought the U.S. could have won ROK support for military strikes on NK nuclear facilities. There is no mention of Roh Moo-hyun (or any other ROK leader), and very little attention given to the ROK government or public....</P>
<P>Ken <BR><BR>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <BR>Back-up E-mail: kenkaliher@hotmail.com <BR>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <BR>"If we cannot agree on such questions of permanent interest as which party has hostile intent on the Korean peninsula, how much of a threat is represented by Pyongyang's possession of weapons of mass destruction, and how fundamentally important are the human rights of the North Korean people, then we are sticking our heads in the sand if we state that this alliance is healthy and assured of another half century of relevance." <BR>-- House Int'l Relations Committee staffer and former U.S. diplomat Dennis Halpin, in a March 25 speech in Seoul on the U.S. Congress' view of the ROK-U.S. alliance</P>
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<P></P><B>Date</B>: Friday, June 10, 2005 0:09 am
<P></P><B>Subject</B>: [KS] Big article on NK war gaming in Atlantic Monthly
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<P></P>> Dear all, <BR>> <BR>> I just posted this at NKZone. Listmembers may also be interested. <BR>> <BR>> Separately, Don Oberdorfer has a fine piece on dealing with the <BR>> North Korean nuclear threat at www.fpri.org. They've sent it out <BR>> to subscribers (subscription is free), but so far on their website <BR>> it's only available as audio or video. Text will no doubt follow. <BR>> <BR>> cheers <BR>> Aidan FC <BR>> <BR>> ----- <BR>> <BR>> Big article on NK war gaming in Atlantic Monthly <BR>> <BR>> Atlantic Monthly recently published a long article by one Scott <BR>> Stosselwhich will interest NKZone readers. See blurb below. <BR>> <BR>> Full text is in principle for subscribers only. However, I found it at: <BR>> http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200507/stossel?ca=MQ%2FDWqCIewY%2FAxAhlGGoNa2m1 <BR>> Kua3TzzrK%2FQv%2FC%2BlFk%3D <BR>> (Better hurry, as they may shut this down.) <BR>> <BR>
> Thanks to northkoreatimes.com for the heads-up on this, or I might have <BR>> missed it. <BR>> Their links don't always work, but this one did: it was <BR>> <A href="http://story.northkoreatimes.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/08aysdf7tga9s7f7/id/d7d68f0b579a8299/">http://story.northkoreatimes.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/08aysdf7tga9s7f7/id/d7d68f0b579a8299/</A> <BR>> <BR>> (This wasn't in fact to the Atlantic, but to a fairly thin summary on Dong-a Ilbo. <BR>> But at least it alerted me.) <BR>> <BR>> cheers <BR>> Aidan FC <BR>> <BR>> AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER <BR>> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>> <BR>> Home address: 17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>> tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264 737634 <BR>> mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>> fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280 <BR>
> Email: afostercarter@aol.com (alt) afostercarter@yahoo.com <BR>> website: www.aidanfc.net <BR>> [Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo too - and let me <BR>> know, so I can chide AOL] <BR>> ____________________ <BR>> <BR>> The Atlantic Monthly | July/August 2005 <BR>> <BR>> North Korea: The War Game <BR>> <BR>> Dealing with North Korea could make Iraq look like child's play <BR>> —and the longer we wait, the harder it will get. <BR>> <BR>> That's the message of a Pentagon-style war game involving some <BR>> of this country's most prominent foreign-policy strategists <BR>> <BR>> by Scott Stossel <BR></BODY>