ABSTRACT
This chapter presents three major arguments. First, the Korean peace-building process is the first and necessary step for achieving Korean reunification. An inter-Korean track and an international track to peace regime building are required to establish a durable peace in Korea. Second, the two Koreas and the US should continue to remove key obstacles to inter-Korean reconciliation, cooperation, and peace process. Third, the two Koreas need to work together to find an alternative to the South’s principle of an inter-Korean peace agreement and the North’s principle of a North Korea-US peace treaty to establish an agreed framework for a durable peace. The Korean peace-building process in the future depends largely on three major factors: President George W. Bush’s hard-line policy toward North Korea and a global anti-terrorism campaign by the United States, South Korean domestic political process, and the political will of Chairman Kim Jong-il to resolve the nuclear issue.
