ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book discusses the Korea problem 'international' that emerges a loose network of desires, attachments and ambitions that are both personal and public; global and geographically specific; fearful of and compassionate towards the North Korean other. It explores to 'solve' a problem like North Korea, the problem of the international also needs examination. The book focuses on the ideas of Trinh who, like Spivak, gives primacy to alternative spaces as sources of change. It examines that the dichotomy colonizer will not do in how one conceive of transformation in intercultural relations. Emergent here is the thesis that what needs disruption is the object binary more pervasively, in every sense and instance, not just in the intercultural relations involving North Korea but also in how disruption, critique and transformation are conceived more broadly.
