Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula

Council on Foreign Relations | May. 26, 2009 (Special Report)

(Interactive) The Korean crisis has drawn the region into ongoing multilateral discussions—Six-Party Talks—and tensions over how to handle the Kim Jong-Il regime. In 2003, the nations represented here began holding the Six-Party Talks with the goal of controlling North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. But abrupt policy shifts by the United States, disagreements among the six countries involved, and most of all North Korea's provocative conduct have made progress toward ... Full Story »

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Topics: North Korea, South Korea, Asia, Foreign Policy
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 26, 2009 - 6:24 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Derek Hawkins (review), Fred Gatlin (review), Dwight Rousu (review)
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 by Derek Hawkins - May. 26, 2009

Very helpful interactive feature covering various aspects of military and foreign policy in the Korean Peninsula in one package. I spent quite a while with this, but I wonder if most readers would do the same.

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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 27, 2009

There is a fair amount of information and history here. The format forces you to find and organize information to what depth you can find in the articles. Interesting, but a bit disjointed.

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 by Fred Gatlin - May. 26, 2009

This interactive article provides a great deal of information and makes the position of North Korea even more baffling. Their county is in economic ruin and population is starving and they act like they want to start a war that they are all but certain to lose.

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