RE: Korean War strategies (response)

["Maxwell David LTC 1/1 SFG(A)(n)" <MaxwellD@torii.army.mil>]

Here are some books you might find useful.  Remember that since 1945 the
single vital national interest of nK has been ( will most assuredly continue
to be) survival of the Kim Family Regime.  The single strategic aim has been
reunification of the peninsula.  The single major condition to achieve the
strategic aim since 1953 is removal of US forces from the peninsula.  There
is no doubt in my mind that the current actions of Kim Jong Il are designed
to support the vital interest and strategic aim and achieve the necessary
condition (what better way to get US forces off the peninsula than to make
the ROK and US populations thing that nK is actually changing [when in fact
it isn't] and that "peace is breaking out all over.")

-----Original Message-----
From: geminiad@whidbey.com [mailto:geminiad@whidbey.com]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 17:22
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Re: Korean War strategies (response)

KW Strategies........

Other than John Kim's response on useful books,
especially less "weighty" than the two volume Bruce
Cumins "Origins",

you might also try these:

1] The Korean War in History    (Ed, Janes Cotton & I. Neary]

2]  Foreign Internvention in Korea      (Gye-Dong Kim]

        For a different spin on the origins and involvement of
        US/UN forces  in the war.

3] From Pusan to Panmunjom              [Gen. Paik Sun Yup, ROKA]

        For a Korean generals perspective, especially negotiation
        period late in the war - not a negotiation history, more on
        potential for alternative outcomes.

Good luck !

Keith Jacobs

Korean Reading List.doc