LEADER 04971nam 2200577 450 001 9910810831603321 005 20230124195118.0 010 $a1-4629-1917-0 035 $a(CKB)3840000000327032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5333520 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5333520 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11536167 035 $a(OCoLC)1000365008 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000327032 100 $a20180427d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStop North Korea! $ea radical new approach to the North Korea standoff /$fShepherd Iverson 210 1$aTokyo ; Rutland, Vermont :$cTuttle Publishing,$d[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8048-4859-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index. 330 $a"This radical new approach to dealing with North Korea offers a refreshing perspective on an intransigent and deadly situation. Imagine you control a multi-billion dollar capital fund, and North Korea is an underperforming corporation. You see it is undervalued and want to take it over, but it is controlled by an old-fashioned board of directors--the Kim family and a small number of ultra elites--who will not negotiate a deal. In this regressive situation it is logical to offer its shareholders--the political and military elites, government managers and bureaucrats, and the general population--a higher price for their shares to convince them to overrule their board of directors. Stop North Korea! A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff applies this basic scenario to a situation that has become dire, and for which a strong positive solution is crucial. This book shows how investment rather than constraint--the carrot rather than the stick--will not only deter the North Korea threat, but enhance the global community in ways perhaps unimagined in the past"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a""If war can be reduced to a competition over money--and control over the land, people, and the resources that produce it--then it should be possible to pay in advance to prevent it." Author Shepherd Iverson uses this underlying premise to provide an alternative to every book written about the North Korean nuclear threat and growing East Asia militarism. Far less permeable to economic sanctions than Iran has been, North Korea requires a different sort of economic approach to peace. Taking a cultural as well as a geoeconomic approach, Stop North Korea: A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff proposes that reunification is the best, possibly only, way to denuclearize North Korea, end its government's oppressive regime and create a fruitful, sustainable peace. The book further proposes that the way to achieve reunification is, essentially, to buy it while there is still a chance to prevent war and repair the damage already done. It is business-as-peace-crafting in a way that has never been imagined before. It all begins with this basic scenario: "Imagine that you control a multi-billion dollar capital fund and North Korea is a large underperforming corporation. You see it is undervalued and want to take it over, but it is controlled by an old-fashioned board of directors--the Kim family and a small number of ultra-elites--lwho will not negotiate a deal. In this regressive situation it is logical to offer shareholders--the larger number of political and military elites, government managers and bureaucrats, and the general population--a higher price for their shares to convince them to overrule their board of directors.""--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aKorean reunification question (1945- ) 606 $aKorean reunification question (1945- )$xEconomic aspects 606 $aNuclear nonproliferation$zKorea (North) 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Korea$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs$2bisacsh 607 $aKorea (North)$xForeign economic relations$zKorea (South) 607 $aKorea (South)$xForeign economic relations$zKorea (North) 615 0$aKorean reunification question (1945- ) 615 0$aKorean reunification question (1945- )$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aNuclear nonproliferation 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Korea. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs. 676 $a320.9519 686 $aHIS023000$aPOL011010$aPOL011020$2bisacsh 700 $aIverson$b Shepherd$f1956-$01698439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810831603321 996 $aStop North Korea$94079899 997 $aUNINA