Editors/Contributors i Preface ix PART I: Reflecting on Seventy Years of Diplomacy 1 1. The Legal Framework of Diplomacy under the San Francisco System: Korea and the Formation of a New Legal Order 3 Jeong-Ho Roh 2. What Have Twenty Years of Nuclear Diplomacy Achieved? 29 Leon V. Sigal 3. The Future of US Policy toward North Korea and the Role of South Korea 57 Joel S. Wit and Sun Young Ahn PART II: Assessing the Current Spiral of Escalation 75 4. The Endgame Question: Where Is Escalation Leading Us, and Is It Worth It? 77 Alexandre Y. Mansourov 5. Sanctions and North Korea: The Absence of a Humanitarian Emergencyand the Crisis of Development 119 Hazel Smith 6. Sanctions against North Korea: An Analysis from an International Human Rights Law Perspective 143 Kyung-ok Do PART III: Proposing a De-Escalation 173 7. Internal Conditions for Rapprochement: What Kind of Economic Opening is Feasible? 175 Rüdiger Frank 8. External Conditions for Rapprochement: What Avenues and Opportunities Would a North Korean Opening-Up Present for the United States and Korea? 203 Chang-Seok Yang 9. State Succession in the Context of Korean Unification 235 Ye Joon Rim 10. Proposing a Model of Reunification to Solve the Korean Nuclear Crisis 263 Henri Féron Index 315