ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to identify ways in which Seoul's nordpolitik should adapt to the emerging great power consensus. Nordpolitik has clearly tightened the noose on Democratic People's Republic of Korea ambition, but it would be reckless to assume that the North Korean threat has been eliminated. For the first time in modern Korean history, there is a credible prospect that the several larger powers concerned with Northeast Asian security management will speak to both Koreas with essentially the same voice. Their common message, based on their own increasingly interlocking national interests, will be to advise on a stabilizing accommodation between the two Koreas. North Korea has demonstrated by its behavior its vehement opposition to South Korea's northern policy. Clearly the North Korean policy in 1991 is to drag its feet in the inter-Korean negotiation while moving rapidly toward an entente with Japan.
