"In tracing the history of U.S./Korea encounters, this book stresses that as America opened a Pandora Box with an initial raid, thereby unleashing the "Korean Question," the United States now needs to uphold its initial peaceful treaty commitment by normalizing relations with Pyeongyang, thus bringing closure to the "Korean Question.""--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures, Tables, and Map
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Map
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Unwitting Creator of the Korean Question
  • A Short Survey of the Encounter
  • The History of Uneven Encounter: Jared Diamond
  • Analytical Frameworks: America’s Regime Denial of North Korea and Hegemonic Behavior
  • Summary of Chapters
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: Origins of the Korean Question and the Consequences of the Korean War
  • Completion of the Great Circle Route: The Seward-Shufeldt Line
    • Robert Shufeldt’s Final Stroke in the Great Circle Route
  • The Corean Question: Conceptualization
    • Power Struggles between the United States and China over Korea
    • Can Korea Trust the United States?
    • The American Question of Korea
  • The Corean Question: Seward and Shufeldt
    • William Seward Opening the Pandora’s Box of the Corean Question
    • Robert Wilson Shufeldt: Foreseeing the Corean Question
  • Internationalization of the Corean Question: Japan and Great Britain
    • Franklin Roosevelt: Completion of the Vacillation
  • Wars and Consequences
    • Uneven Encounters and Two Koreas
    • Disparities between North and South
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: Encounter of Isolationist Joseon and Expansionist America
  • “Auspicious Beginning of an Enduring Partnership”: Swapping Korea for the Philippines
  • Overview of U.S.-Korea Relations
  • Unfortunate Beginning of the Encounter: The General Sherman Incident
    • United States v. Jenkins
    • Mishaps in the Wake of the General Sherman Incident
    • American Interest in Corea: Commerce and Navigation
  • Collision: Korean Isolationism vs. U.S. Expansionism
    • Collision with American Expansionism
      • Sinocentrism
  • Encounters between Strangers: The United States and the Joseon
  • Korea, Betrayed?
    • Illegalities of Treaties between Korea and Japan
    • Controversy: Betrayal or Not
  • America’s Step Back from Seward-Shufeldt Line: Theodore Roosevelt
    • Theodore and Racism
    • Theodore Revisited
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: The Two Korean Wars
  • The First Korean War, Shinmiyangyo
    • The Shinmiyangyo: The Course of the War
  • Strangers Crossing Paths and Overriding Korean Values
    • Criticisms of the U.S. Expedition
    • No Bond between Strangers
  • The Second Korean War, 1950–1953
    • The Swift Choice to Cut Korea in Two
    • Warnings Misfired
    • The Wedemeyer Report
    • Recommendation from Acting Secretary of State James Webb
  • Washington Vacillated
  • Korean War Veterans: The Generation That Saved the Relationship
  • U.S. Commitment Realigned: Aid
  • How the Korean War Shaped Twenty-First-Century U.S.-China Frictions
  • Another Korean War?
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: North Korean Quagmire: The Last Phase of U.S. Encounter?
  • The Place of North Korea in U.S.-Korea Relations
    • Washington and Pyeongyang: “Inadvertently Consistent and Predictably Erratic”8
    • Historical Origins of Mutual Apathy and Hostility
  • Reasons for Stalemate
  • Regime Change and Containment in U.S. Foreign Policy
    • Historical Background for Regime Denial
    • Realist Perspective: Promotion of South Korea and Denial of North Korea
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: Upshots of Encounters
  • Half-Success in South Korea
  • Kilroy Resurrected
  • Legacy of U.S.-Korea Relations
  • What Lies Ahead for Korea: Korea Disregarded
  • Where This History Leads in America’s Asian Policy
    • Deep Roots of American Racial Prejudice
  • The Legacy of the Korean War
  • A Century-Old Status Quo among Three East Asian Countries
    • East Asian Potential
    • Mutual Interdependence: No Getting Away from It
    • Frenemies
    • The Road Ahead
  • At the Crossroads of This Relationship
  • Notes
• Chapter 6: The Corean Question Revisited
  • A Short Summary
  • Epilogue: A Petition to End the Korean War by the Voices of Korean War Veterans
  • Ending the Korean War: A Petition to the United Nations by Alliance of Korean War Veterans and Global Citizens to End the Korean War organized by The Korean War Legacy Foundation & The Center for Global Nonkilling
    • Preamble
    • Petition
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author