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