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Subtitle: Hearing before the Subcommittees on International Political and Military Affairs and on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session, September 1, 1976.

Source: Levinworth Papers: Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1991. This link goes to the online edition. The Libraries also have this document in print.

Identifies possible options, with their implications and attendant risks, for the employment of the military to denuclearize North Korea (DPRK). Covers options related to maintaining the military status quo, enhanced containment and deterrence, denying DPRK acquisition of delivery systems capable of threatening the U.S., eliminating intercontinental ballistic missile facilities and launch pads, eliminating DPRK nuclear facilities, DPRK regime change, and withdrawing U.S. military forces.

Congressional Research Service, Updated March 18, 2003.

...At the frontier between North and South Korea there is no sign whatsoever of imminent conflagration. It's less a front line and more of a theme park.

Nelson discusses the strange land between war and peace, where one can find birds hard to see anywhere else. The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea--an uninhabited, heavily mined strip of land 250 kilometers long and four kilometers wide---has been called a "de facto wildlife preserve" and "accidental paradise. Plants and animals once thought extirpated on the Korean peninsula have now been discovered there, while the wetlands have become a winter home for rare black-faced spoonbills and red-crowned cranes, which need big, open, quiet spaces.

New York Times, 02 Feb 2013: A9.

New York Times, 7 March 1990.

National Geographic, July 2003

New York Times, 4 November 2017.

North Korea, formerly designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, emerged as a nuclear-armed enigma under the dictatorship of Kim-Jong Il. RAND’s research on both deterrence and failed states includes expert analysis of the North Korean regime, opportunities for its modernization and democratization, and implications for post–Cold War geopolitics.

Sarantakes examines the period from 1966 to 1969, when US and South Korean troops fought a series of skirmishes against North Korean soldiers in an undeclared war along the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. The "Quiet War" had important ramifications in Vietnam and Washington.

The article argues that South and North Koreans on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) have awaited a peace treaty for 60 years since the July 27, 1953 signing of the temporary armistice agreement. It asserts that what the Koreans have gotten instead are an arms race and political repression, as shown by the recent U.S.- South Korea military exercises, scheduled from March 27 through April 2014. It also explores why North Korea is such as militarized nation.