Eye on Korea_ An Insider Account of Korean-American Relations

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Abbreviations

BM Brzezinski Materials, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, Ga.
DHM Donated Historical Materials, Zbigniew Brzezinski Collection, Jimmy Carter
Presidential Library, Atlanta, Ga.
GRFL Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.
NYT New York Times
WP Washington Post

Author’s Preface

. William H. Gleysteen Jr., Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea

in Crisis (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, ); John A. Wickham,

Korea on the Brink: From the ‘/ Incident’ to the Kwangju Uprising, –

(Washington, D.C: National Defense University Press, ).

Chapter 1. Preparation

. These developments are well covered in Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contem-

porary History (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, ), pp. –.

Chapter 2. Into the Fray

. For a useful secondary account, see Oberdorfer, Two Koreas, pp. –. For discus-

sions of the issues relating to nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula in the

s, see Joo-Hong Nam, America’s Commitment to South Korea: The First Decade of

the Nixon Doctrine (New York: Cambridge University Press, ), pp. –; and

Peter Hayes, Pacific Powderkeg: American Nuclear Dilemmas in Korea (Lexington, Mass.:

D. C. Heath, ), pp. –, –.

. For substantial documentation on the nuclear issue, see Boxes A, A, Temporary

Parallel Files, Office of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,

–, GRFL.

. See WP, June , , p. A.

. For a good secondary account focusing on high-level Washington decision mak-

ing, see Oberdorfer, Two Koreas, pp. –.

. Substantial documentation on Washington’s deliberations on this issue is avail-

able in Box , National Security Adviser, Presidential Country Files for East Asia

and the Pacific, –, Country File Korea (), GRFL.

. This story was widely circulated following Operation Paul Bunyan and is recounted

in John K. Singlaub, Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century

(New York: Summit, ), p. .